Linda is the co-founder of Being First, Inc., a consulting, training and publishing firm specializing in change leadership development and transformational change for Fortune 1000 businesses, government, the military, and large not-for-profit organizations. Linda is a masterful change strategist and speaks about leading conscious transformation at national and international conferences. She is known as an inspiring model of her message who devotes herself to teaching others the best practices she has developed from over thirty years of being a coach to senior executive change leaders.

Linda's client list includes the Canadian Government, Intel, Shell, Lockheed Martin, The Nature Conservancy, DTE Energy, US West, Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Gas and Electric, Kaiser Permanente, the U.S. Army and Navy, and Honeywell.

Linda and her partner, Dean Anderson, are perceived as thought leaders in the field of change management and shifting organizational mindset and culture as drivers of transformation. Jim Kouzes, best-selling author of The Leadership Challenge, calls Linda and Dean “the leading authorities on change leadership and organization transformation.”

Linda is also an author, and has co-authored, with Dean, two seminal books on conscious change leadership: Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership and The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation. Both are now in their second editions. The first editions were best-sellers in the Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer Organization Practitioner Series. Daryl Conner, leading authority on change management, says these books were “written by masters of transformation.”

Linda led the thirty-year development of Being First’s renowned change process methodology, The Change Leader’s Roadmap. The industry journal, The Organization Development Practitioner, calls the Andersons' Change Leader’s Roadmap methodology "the most comprehensive and immediately usable of all approaches available." Linda also devotes herself to supporting women as leaders of change, and is currently finishing her next book on working women’s issues.

Linda has published over fifty articles on change leadership and was a founding leader of the field of Organization Transformation in the 1980’s. Currently, she co-authors the industry blog at www.changeleadersnetwork.com.