WHO WE ARE

Lynda Carroll

Lynda is Align Group’s Chief Executive and primary shareholder.  She has worked for nearly thirty years in senior management and consulting roles interfacing with Boards, Chief Executives, senior managers, and key shareholders/stakeholders. These roles have been within the private, not for profit and state sectors in New Zealand and internationally.

Prior to establishing Align Group, Lynda founded Carroll Consulting. For nearly twenty years, Carroll Consulting supported organisations and communities to align strategy, culture, governance and performance to enable their people to innovate and thrive today, to be successful tomorrow.  Prior to this Lynda was Managing Consultant of the New Zealand office of Development Dimensions International (DDI); General Manager, Human Resources for the Ministry of Forestry; and Corporate Services Manager for the Early Childhood Development Unit. 

Lynda has nearly 25 years governance experience including as Chair and Deputy Chair; Chair of Remuneration and Performance and Nominations sub-committees as well as membership of Major Projects; Finance, Audit and Risk; Future Horizons, Nominations; and Fundraising and Sponsorship sub-committees. Lynda has recently stepped down as Chair of Wellington Water Limited and previously spent seven years as an Independent member on the New Zealand Army Leadership Board. She is currently Deputy Chair of the New Zealand String Quartet Trust. She is a lay member of the Professional Conducts Committee, Social Workers’ Registration Board, a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors and an Accredited Foresight Practitioner through the Institute for the Future in California. Her governance experience has been gained across the wider state, private, and not-for-profit sectors.

Lynda's specialty areas include:

• Facilitation of Strategy and Foresight sessions

• Organisation Culture

• Governance evaluation, development and support

• Business planning and performance

• Organisation Development and Transformational Change

• Sector Strategy and Futuring

Lynda’s networks have been established through associations such as the Institute of Directors, New Zealand Institute of Management (NZIM), Institute of Public Administration of New Zealand, and the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors and an Associate Fellow of NZIM.

On a personal note, Lynda is a keen singer, amateur jeweller and traveller.

Jim Lindsay

Jim has over 25 years in management and governance experience including as Chair and Independent Board Member. Jim is a Chartered member of the Institute of Directors and currently Chairs a not-for-profit trust, and a Medical Centre Advisory Board.

 Jim is also an expert in professional regulation and investigation and sits of Statutory Conduct Committees for a number of professional bodies.

 Jim has provided advice to numerous Chairs, Boards and CEOs on leading change and managing risk. This advice has been provided to organisations across all sectors including Government agencies, corporations and membership organisations. Jim has a particular interest in security and risk and how these can be improved.

 Jim’s background was originally within education where he helped develop parts of the New Zealand curriculum and furthered teacher education. He then moved into central government and has had significant senior leadership experience across organisational strategy, stakeholder engagement and market performance. He has led a range of teams through significant change including developing new entities and partnerships between business and Government.

 Jim’s specialty areas include:

•  Security and Risk

• Educational co-design

• Intersection between Government, business and sector organisations

• Professional Standards and Regulation

• Governance

On a personal note Jim holds a black belt in Aikido and is slowly learning to surf.