Leadership with Heart: How Lyndsay Dowd Redefines Culture, Purpose, and Courage

COACHED with Coach Keren · Nov 20, 2025 · 34m

Guest: Lyndsay Dowd, Speaker, Author of Top-Down Culture, Host of Heartbeat for Hire

In this powerful episode, Coach K sits down with the extraordinary Lyndsay Dowd, a former IBM executive turned cultural architect, to talk about what real leadership looks like in a post-corporate world.

After 23 years at IBM, Lyndsay was fired from what she thought was her “dream role.” Instead of collapsing, she asked herself three questions that changed everything:

1️⃣ What am I really good at?

2️⃣ What do I love to do?

3️⃣ How can I help people the most?

From those answers, she built an empire of…