Lindi Harvey, Former Deputy Director U.S. Park Service and Global Women’s Issues

Lindi Harvey has enjoyed a vast career ranging in executive management for entrepreneurial and private companies, senior-level positions for the federal government, and in leading community nonprofit organizations. She leverages her strengths in creating and achieving greater impact, solutions, and outcomes in business development, coalition building, outreach efforts, effective communications, public policy, civic engagement, and collaboration with stakeholders, strategic partners, and the public. She currently represents the Global President of Tech Mahindra, a $7B tech and telecom business, as Chief of Staff leading strategic business initiatives, from development through successful execution.

Her private-sector career includes serving as Senior Vice President/Managing Director for the Geneva Capital Strategies Division of Citigroup, where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions, succession planning, business growth, and product expansion for entrepreneurial companies. Lindi served in the George W. Bush Presidential Administration where she was appointed Deputy Director, Global Women's Office, at the US Department of State providing diplomatic, programmatic, and strategic initiatives assisting women and their families in post-conflict countries in entrepreneurial skills building, political leadership, and financial literacy. She was also appointed as Deputy Director, National Park Service, at the US Department of the Interior where she developed the Kids in Parks initiative designed to re-engage our youth with their national parks to include programs, activities, products, and community outreach in addition to overseeing and directing the agency’s 20,000 employees, over 400 park sites (natural, historic and cultural), and $3B budget.

Lindi directed the world’s largest nonprofit workplace-giving program achieving record-breaking annual contributions distributed to 4,000+ local, national, and global charitable organizations. In addition, at the start of Covid-19 in March 2020, she helped create and lead a national hunger-relief initiative, Get Shift Done, providing living wages to newly unemployed hospitality/restaurant employees as skilled shift works to food banks and other hunger-relief organizations giving critical resources of preparing, assembly, and distributing over 60 million meals in 12 regions to individuals and families in need. Fast Company ranked this initiative #1 Most Innovative Nonprofit Organization in 2021. Lindi is a dedicated volunteer and enjoys helping nonprofit and community organizations focused on women’s leadership, children’s development, and civic engagement.

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