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Lyndsay combines commercial experience with leadership coaching, helping leaders strengthen mindset, communication, delegation and team performance. She supports transitions into senior roles through practical coaching focused on sustainable leadership development.
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Lyndsay started her career in audit at KPMG South Africa, leading engagements for banking and mining clients. Her accounting background gives her an understanding of commercial pressure and the need to balance people and business priorities. She then followed her passion for human dynamics and moved into leading early talent, first at KPMG and then at Standard Bank, where her programs spanned 16 African countries and won national awards for graduate attraction and development.
At KPMG Australia, as Senior Manager, Organisational Effectiveness, she worked with the NeuroLeadership Institute to redesign the firm’s performance framework, strengthening goal setting, accountability and performance conversations across Audit, Tax and Advisory. She also led the firm’s Horizon Talent Program and contributed to talent review and succession.
Since 2019 she has worked independently, coaching and facilitating for organisations including BHP, Glencore, Origin Energy, Powerlink and the Queensland Government. She has spent time on site at mines across Queensland and works with everyone from field team leaders to senior leaders. Much of her coaching is with people moving into senior manager roles, often promoted for their technical strength and now needing to get results through others.
Lyndsay is naturally curious about people and what drives behaviour. She believes good leadership is a mix of mindset and skillset, with mindset as the foundation. Drawing on above and below the line thinking, she helps leaders recognise their assumptions and understand how their behaviour influences others. From there, they can see what is within their control and how they can contribute to a better outcome.
Alongside this mindset work, she helps leaders strengthen their skills in listening, feedback, coaching and delegation. Together, these support sustainable leadership: achieving results through others, building capability in their teams and protecting their own capacity as their responsibilities grow.
Warm, direct and practical, Lyndsay makes complex ideas easy to understand and helps leaders apply them in tangible ways. She asks good questions, challenges thinking and uses real situations and conversation practice to help turn insight into everyday habits.
Lyndsay lives on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast with her family. She loves running, ocean swimming and just about anything active outdoors. She is also an active nippers volunteer and patrol member at the Noosa Surf Club. Always up for a game, she enjoys bringing people together for a laugh and a bit of friendly competition.
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