About Linda Galindo

Consultant, author, speaker and educator, Linda Galindo teaches leaders how to bring accountability into their organizations to significantly improve performance.

Galindo inspires leaders to empower themselves, and those that follow them, to speak the truth, focus on what matters and be fully accountable for the results they produce.

Consulting

Galindo specializes in working in healthcare and government – bringing the principles of accountability to organizations where it is truly needed – at the leadership level. She also consults to clients in a variety of verticals including energy, financial, medical devices, transportation, insurance and the arts. Her clients include the Park City Municipal Corporation, Intermountain Health Care, the Sundance Institute, Abbott, MountainStar Healthcare, Zions Bank and Northern Air Cargo.

Books and Articles

The 85% Solution: How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success – No Nonsense, No Excuses is Galindo's "accountability primer." The book offers a re-framed approach to accountability – inviting everyone to understand that to be effective as a leader there has to be personal accountability. Leaders shift their internal voice from one of victim to one of total owner, whether results are good or bad, and expect their followers to do the same. Galindo says, "Leaders – and ultimately their followers – internalize 'it starts with me.' At that point an honest conversation about success can begin."

Galindo is also the author of Way to Grow! Cultivating the Weeds, Daisies and Orchids in Your Organization.

Read more about the 85% Solution >

Galindo has written over one hundred articles on the topic of accountability. Read her most current articles >

Speaking and Teaching

Galindo speaks nationally on the topics of accountable leadership and creating the culture change to bring about an accountable organization. She serves as faculty for the Governance Institute (serving boards of directors and C-suite healthcare executives), the Medical Leadership Institute and the Institute of Management Studies. She speaks to leadership conferences nationally. Read more about Galindo's speaking services >

She is a Board Member for the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) Center for Public Trust.

Background

A former journalist and radio news personality, Galindo made the shift to consulting, speaking and writing about accountability 20 years ago. Galindo noticed that news stories were about people, especially leaders in business and government, who were not accountable.

"I wanted to put the topic of accountability in our national conversation before crises and problems arose," says Galindo. "I got tired of reporting on situations in which accountability was not present but should have been. Rather than talking about accountability after the fact – often when it was already too late to make an impact – I have made it my life's work to bring accountability proactively into organizations at the leadership level where it is really needed. The business case to do so is compelling. Real leaders understand the straight truth: 'Accountability starts with me.'"

Personal

Linda Galindo lives in Park City, UT with her husband and two daughters. She is originally from San Francisco.