About Lyndsay Dowd

Most people have had a bad leader. Very few have had a truly great one.

Lyndsay Dowd has spent her career closing that gap.

After 23 years climbing the ranks at IBM and leading some of the highest-performing sales teams in the company, Lyndsay walked away and built something entirely her own. Heartbeat for Hire exists because leadership still has a long way to go, and she refuses to wait for someone else to fix it.

Today she is a sought-after keynote speaker, executive coach, two-time bestselling author, Harvard guest lecturer, and the host of two shows dedicated to the kind of leadership that actually moves people. Apple News named her a Top 10 Business Coach. She was awarded Business Coach of the Year and the 2023 Award for Innovation and Excellence. Fortune Magazine, HR.com, Authority Magazine, Business Management Daily, and Valiant CEO have all featured her work.

Her first book, Top Down Culture, is a blueprint for leaders who are serious about building cultures that perform. Her second, Voices of Women, is an Amazon International Bestseller, an anthology of 22 international female authors sharing stories of leadership, resilience, and what it really takes to raise your voice and change the world. Lyndsay is one of those authors.

She hosts the award-winning Heartbeat for Hire Podcast, ranked in the top 2.5% globally, and THE LEADERSHIP LOUNGE, a weekly live show where real leaders have real conversations about what it means to lead well.

She has also served as Chief Revenue Officer for a startup, bringing the same human-centered leadership philosophy to scaling businesses and building teams that deliver.

If you want a speaker who will challenge your leaders and leave the room different than she found it, a coach who will tell you the truth and then help you do something about it, or a partner who has actually done the work at the highest levels, you are in the right place.

Let’s get to work.