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Lindsay Levin | |
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| Born | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Social entrepreneur, author |
| Known for | Founder of Blue Dot Collective, Leaders' Quest; Co-founder and CEO of TED Countdown |
| Notable work | Invisible Giants: Changing the World One Step at a Time |
| Spouse | David Levin |
| Website | bluedotcollective.org leadersquest.org |
Lindsay Levin is a British entrepreneur, author, and leadership consultant. She is the co-founder and Head of TED Countdown, a platform for climate discussions launched in 2020 by TED and Levin's social enterprise, Leaders’ Quest.[1] Levin is recognized for her early advocacy of purpose-driven leadership - an approach that combines business success with positive social and environmental impact.[2][3][4] Her leadership work has been profiled in management literature, including as a case study in the widely-cited The Leadership Challenge.[5] Levin is also the author of Invisible Giants:Changing the World One Step at a Time, a book on leadership and social change.
Career
[edit]Early in her career, Levin was CEO of The Whites Group, which included a network of car dealerships across the south of the UK.[5][2] She also founded a group of retirement and care homes, Hartford Care.[6] Her work at Whites was profiled as a case study in The Leadership Challenge, which cited her management approach in a discussion of values-based organization change.[5] In an interview, Jim Kouzes singled out Levin as one of the impactful leaders they interviewed.[7] In 2004, Levin was listed among Britain's Top 100 Entrepeneurs.[8]
In 2001, Levin founded Leaders’ Quest to connect business leaders with grassroots organizations through experiential programmes.[1][9] Leaders’ Quest has been described as a “social change enterprise”.[1] The organization takes business leaders and CEOs on “Quests” in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, to explore global issues and develop leadership skills.[1]
She later co-founded TED Countdown in 2020 as a platform for responses to the climate crisis.[10] According to an in-house impact assessment of TED Countdown's first five years, the initiative convened summits in Europe, the USA and Africa and produced 240 TED Talks with over 270M view and listens.[11] In 2024, Levin founded the Blue Dot Collective, which works, according to Levin, in partnership with TED Countdown and Leaders’ Quest and supports projects including “Uniting for a Shared Future,” a coalition of Israeli and Palestinian leaders.[12]
Methodology and impact
[edit]In The Future of Coaching, Hetty Einzig outlines how Levin's methodology blends self-reflection with long-term societal goals, asking participants to engage with questions such as: “What do we most deeply love?” and “How do we re-imagine learning and human development to respond to the world as it is?”[13]
Levin's model has also been discussed in studies of organizational culture. In Female Entrepreneurs: The Secrets of Their Success, Levin describes how feedback at Leaders’ Quest is not hierarchical: “We sit in lots of circles round a campfire… You get used to a twenty-five-year-old giving you feedback.”[14] Corporate Social Opportunity! by Grayson and Hodges cites Leaders’ Quest as a model for aligning commercial success with social responsibility, emphasizing shared values, long-term thinking, and forging partnerships across different sectors.[3]
Douglas Board, a former headhunter and executive coach, recounts a Leaders' Quest event in Mumbai in 2006 as a transformative experience that catalysed his own departure from corporate life. He describes waking before dawn to meet migrant construction workers, observing how economic insecurity shaped their day-to-day existence. The encounter prompted a personal reckoning: “If I, decked out in financial, educational and social advantages, can’t face the insecurity… I should be taken out and shot. I resigned the following summer.”[15]
Public speaking
[edit]Levin has spoken at academic and public events and as guest on podcasts. In 2016, she gave a TEDx talk titled "CompassionX: the bridge from cleverness to wisdom" at TEDxExeter. In the talk, she explored the role of self-awareness, humility, and listening in leadership development, framing these as necessary qualities in addressing global challenges.[16]
In 2017, she delivered the graduation address at the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University, where she emphasized lifelong learning and civic responsibility.[17][18]
In 2021, she was a guest on the Outrage + Optimism podcast in an episode titled “The Head and the Heart of Radical Leadership,” where she spoke alongside Kumi Naidoo about leadership approaches in times of crisis.[19] In 2022, she appeared on The Way Out Is In, a podcast hosted by the Plum Village monastic community, in an episode titled “Wise Leadership,” discussing principles of ethical and mindful leadership.[20]
She has also hosted and moderated TED Countdown events. At the 2023 TED Countdown Summit in Detroit, Levin spoke about climate tipping points and emphasized the potential for systemic solutions and collaboration across sectors.[10] In 2024, Levin co-hosted a TED conversation with Paul Hudson, CEO of Sanofi, titled "Leadership in the Age of AI." The talk explored the evolving role of leadership in response to emerging AI technologies. Levin emphasized the role of emotional resilience and the value of remaining grounded in human values as organizational decision-making becomes increasingly data-driven.[21] Levin co-hosted the latest iteration of TED Countdown in Nairobi in June 2025,[22] where speakers including Nora Magero and Al Gore discussed African leadership in climate issues and the impact of climate change on communities in Africa.[23][24]
Works
[edit]In 2013, Levin published Invisible Giants: Changing the World One Step at a Time, which included biographical accounts of individuals involved in community- or business-led social change initiatives.[17] The book was reviewed in the Journal of Development Research, which described it as a collection of “stories of transformational courage and leadership [that] have rarely been told.”[25] Levin also contributed to the 2024 guidebook Radical Collaboration to Accelerate Climate Action, developed jointly by Reos, TED Countdown, Leaders’ Quest, and others. The guide outlines seven practices for accelerating equitable climate action. [26]
Personal life
[edit]Levin lives in New York City with her husband, David Levin. The couple has three sons.[27]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Wilson, Carol (2014-01-03). Performance Coaching: A Complete Guide to Best Practice Coaching and Training (2nd ed.). Kogan Page Publishers. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-0-7494-7032-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b Finn, Widget (Feb 2002). "Someone to lean on". Director. 55 (7): 42–45.
- ^ a b Grayson, David; Hodges, Adrian (2004). Corporate Social Opportunity!: 7 Steps to Make Corporate Social Responsibility Work for Your Business. Greenleaf Publishing. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-351-28087-7.
- ^ Bloomberg Television (2020-09-16). TED's Levin and UK Climate Champion Topping on Race to Zero. Retrieved 2025-07-16 – via YouTube.
- ^ a b c Kouzes, James M.; Posner, Barry Z. (2010-08-27). The Leadership Challenge. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-94759-3.
- ^ "Hartford Care Group Limited – Officers". Companies House. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ^ by Rachel Brown, Interview (2007-01-23). "An interview with Jim Kouzes". Strategic Direction. 23 (2): 28–30. doi:10.1108/02580540710724483. ISSN 0258-0543.
- ^ Beresford, Philip (Jan 2004). "Enterprise nation". Management Today. pp. 32–43.
- ^ Elkington, John; Zeitz, Jochen (2014-08-04). The Breakthrough Challenge: 10 Ways to Connect Today's Profits With Tomorrow's Bottom Line. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-53969-9.
- ^ a b Moore, Lindsay (2023-07-12). "'Do you take us as fools?' Al Gore targets oil companies at Detroit climate summit". mlive. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
- ^ "TED Countdown announces membership of its Vision Council and new corporate members of the TED Future Forum | TED Blog". 2024-01-29. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
- ^ "Why Blue Dot? A Note from our Founder, Lindsay Levin". Blue Dot Collective. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
- ^ Einzig, Hetty (2017-05-18). The Future of Coaching: Vision, Leadership and Responsibility in a Transforming World. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-55278-9.
- ^ Smythe, John; Saunders, Stella (2020). Female Entrepreneurs: The Secrets of Their Success. Routledge. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-429-44213-1.
- ^ Board, Douglas (2021-02-27). Elites: Can You Rise to the Top Without Losing Your Soul?. Eye Press. ISBN 978-1-78563-223-5.
- ^ "Lindsay Levin – TEDxExeter". www.tedxexeter.com. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
- ^ a b Molly Callahan, "International leader, entrepreneur Lindsay Levin to deliver CPS graduation address", Northeastern News, May 10, 2017, https://news.northeastern.edu/2017/05/10/international-leader-entrepreneur-lindsay-levin-to-deliver-cps-graduation-address
- ^ Jason Kornwitz, "CPS graduates urged to effect positive change, engage in lifelong learning", Northeastern News, May 15, 2017, https://news.northeastern.edu/2017/05/15/cps-graduates-urged-to-effect-positive-change-engage-in-lifelong-learning
- ^ "The Head and The Heart of Radical Leadership with Kumi Naidoo and Lindsay Levin". www.outrageandoptimism.org. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
- ^ "Wise Leadership (Episode #17)". Plum Village. 2021-12-16. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
- ^ "Embracing AI for Future Leadership: Paul Hudson’s Talk with Lindsay Levin at TED", The AI Insider, February 5, 2024. https://theaiinsider.tech/2024/02/05/embracing-ai-for-future-leadership-paul-hudsons-talk-with-lindsay-levin-at-ted/
- ^ "6 takeaways from day 2 of TED Countdown Summit 2025 | TED Blog". 2025-06-17. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ^ Mbenywe, Mactilda. "Kenya's refugee hunger crisis driven by global warming - Gore". Health. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ^ Africa, B. I. (2025-06-17). "Africa leads climate talks: Highlights from the TED Countdown Summit in Nairobi". Business Insider Africa. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ^ Radnyi Godase, “Book Review: Invisible Giants: Changing the World One Step at a Time by Lindsay Levin,” Journal of Development Research, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan–Mar 2019), https://vesim.ves.ac.in/assets/pdf/journals/January-March-2019.pdf, p. 56.
- ^ Radical Collaboration to Accelerate Climate Action: A Guidebook for Working Together with Speed, Scale, and Justice. TED Countdown, Leaders’ Quest, Climate Champions Team, Reos Partners. 2024.
- ^ "International leader, entrepreneur Lindsay Levin to deliver CPS graduation address". Northeastern University News. Northeastern University. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2025.