Cultivating Top Down Leadership & Culture Excellence: A Deep Dive with Lyndsay Dowd

My guest on episode 315 of 3thePOZcast is Lyndsay Dowd, a seasoned business coach with a remarkable 25-year career in sales and leadership at IBM, who has garnered recognition as a Top 10 Coach by Apple News. Her passion for reshaping leadership and fostering positive cultures has earned her the 2023 Award for Innovation and Excellence, where she was named Business Coach of the Year. Lyndsay's legacy as an industry leader is underscored by her book, "Top Down Culture: Revolutionizing Leadership to Drive Results," solidifying her as a thought leader in leadership development and corporate culture transformation. Summary: Lyndsay Dowd, a seasoned business coach with a 25-year career at IBM, discusses the importance of networking, the decline of family culture in companies, and her journey as an entrepreneur. She emphasizes the need for leaders to lead with heart and create a positive culture that values and supports employees. Lyndsay also highlights the challenges of being an entrepreneur and the importance of being open and networking. She addresses the pitfalls of diversity programs and emphasizes the need for companies to provide support and clear career paths for employees.  In this conversation, Lyndsay Dowd, Chief Heartbeat Officer, discusses the importance of recognition and purpose in the workplace. She emphasizes that success is not only measured financially but also by feeling recognized, seen, valued, and having a sense of purpose. Lyndsay shares her experience of building a culture of advocacy at IBM, where employees had the opportunity to do executive interviews with senior leaders.  She also talks about writing her book, Top Down Culture, and the process of transcribing her podcast episodes for the book. Lyndsay explains that the book is for aspiring leaders and provides stories and examples of good and bad leadership. She discusses her future plans of speaking and coaching, as well as her podcast, The Heartbeat for Hire. Lyndsay encourages taking risks and embracing discomfort for personal growth and transformation. She shares her North Star, which is to transform leadership and leave the world a better place. For more on Lyndsay, please visit: Podcast: https://heartbeatforhire.com/podcast/https://www.topdownculture.com/ #thePOZcast is brought to you by our friends at Interseller – the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers.  Check out a free demo today! https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ Thanks for listening, and please follow us on Insta @NHPTalent and X @AdamJPosner. If you enjoyed this episode, kindly leave a review/rating, as it goes a long way.https://ratethispodcast.com/thepozcast Thanks!