Lindsay is CEO of the Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She has over 20 years’ experience at the forefront of business and sustainability – working with senior leaders from multinational businesses, financial institutions and influential organisations to accelerate progress to a sustainable economy. She built CISL’s portfolio of international education programmes, which now have over 40,000 alumni, developing senior level understanding of the need to transform economic structures and markets. She has led CISL’s contribution to evolving international debates on business leadership and strategic responses to sustainability challenges. She speaks on global trends and the commercial implications for business – most recently on the need to align competitiveness and sustainability ‘Survival of the Fittest, from ESG to Competitive Sustainability’. Other areas of focus include the implications of geopolitics and AI, the imperative to take action on nature and the relationship between business and society: ‘Business, Justice and the New Global Economy’.

Within CISL, she has a track-record of leading significant growth, innovation and impact through building the vision, strategy, structures and capabilities necessary to deliver against organisational purpose. As well as building CISL’s education teams, Lindsay led the Institute’s responses to demand for Board-level engagement and strategic advisory services, as well expansion into new geographies. She has personally led industry engagements across banking, extractives, built environment, retail and manufacturing sectors, as well as with major municipalities and SOEs in China and the Middle East.