Lynn G. Robbins

Who is Lynn G. Robbins?

Lynn Grant Robbins was a co-founder of Franklin Quest Company and has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1997. He has been a member of the church's Presidency of the Seventy since April 2014.

Robbins was born in Payson, Utah and was raised in Springville, Utah. He is a great-great-grandson of George Reynolds. From 1971 to 1973 he served as a LDS Church missionary in the Argentina North Mission. After his mission he married Jan Nielson and they are the parents of seven children.

Robbins received a bachelor's degree in Spanish from Utah State University and a master's degree in international management from the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona.

In 1983, Robbins was one of the founders of the Franklin Institute, which later became Franklin Quest and eventually Franklin Covey.

Amongst other positions in the LDS Church, Robbins has served as an early-morning seminary teacher and as a bishop. From 1994 to 1997 Robbins was president of the Uruguay Montevideo Mission. In this position, Robbins started a program to involve the youth of the church in directly working with the missionaries that led to several baptisms.