MEET LINDIWE
Lindiwe S. Lester, MEd, EdS, has spent more than 30 years helping leaders and organizations navigate the realities of people, performance and change.
Before founding Tap In Consulting, she served as a senior nonprofit executive, where she trained and coached internal consultants in consulting methods, executive onboarding, strategy development and leadership development. Her work supported more than 160 nonprofit affiliates as they strengthened their organizations and advanced their missions.
Today, Lindiwe brings that experience to her work as an executive coach, consultant, facilitator and author.
Experience Grounded in People
Lindiwe’s approach is practical, thoughtful and rooted in understanding how people actually experience leadership.
She works with leaders and organizations to better understand what is happening, ask the right questions and move forward with greater clarity and intention.
For more than two decades, her work has also included access and inclusion, including coaching and mentoring executives of color as they grow their careers and navigate the realities of leadership.
Turning Experience Into Tools
Lindiwe is a performance-based learning leader with graduate and post-graduate degrees in instructional and human performance systems, along with certifications in executive coaching and behavioral analytics.
She is the author of:
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The Everyday Leader: Masterfully Lead the People Who MUST Report to You
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The People Smart Leader: Five Keys to Inspire Others to Do Their Best Work
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Better Conversations for Better Results: A Leader’s Guide to Skillful Work Conversations
Her books extend the same philosophy that shapes her coaching and consulting: practical ideas leaders can put to work with themselves, their teams and their organizations.