Professional Profile:

Linda has 20+ years of leadership development experience to executive coaching and team facilitation. As a dedicated and caring thought partner, Linda employs an extensive range of tools, including the latest neuroscience-based insights, to help leaders experiment with new behaviors, new skills, and new ways of thinking. She works with private equity backed, family, high growth entrepreneurial organizations, and Fortune 500 corporations, spanning multiple industries. Additionally, Linda directs the leadership coaching efforts for Kellogg’s Zell Fellows flagship entrepreneurship program and coaches in Kellogg’s executive education programs focused on enterprise leadership.  Previously Linda held multiple roles in a software and information start-up, leading the company’s consulting business, delivering strategy engagements to clients, and creating new data products.  

Key Executive Coaching Expertise:

• Helps leaders deepen self-awareness, elevate executive presence, align actions with core values, and build leadership capabilities that drive business results and team performance
• Works with C-Suite executives and high potential leaders facing significant change
• Strengthens executive presence, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal effectiveness to improve team morale, engagement, and productivity
• Supports leaders with P&L responsibility to stabilize reporting teams, improve internal leadership, and meet growth and client-service targets
• Helps leaders sharpen strategic focus and traction on priorities while increasing influence with senior stakeholders

Education and Credentials:

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Coaches Training Institute
• MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Certifications: Neuroscience and Transformational Coaching; BEabove Leadership; Hogan; Conflict Dynamic Profile; Team Management Profile®; KornFerry360®; Leadership Versatility Index®; LEA; MBTI®

Coaching Approach:

Linda believes courageous leaders do their best work when they feel both challenged and supported. Her holistic approach blends a sharp business lens and a love of data with empathy, insight, and humor. Her candor is infused with compassion and delivered in service of her clients’ growth and goals.  Her clients find her to be creatively resourceful and skilled in helping them evolve into who they aspire to be.