Lindsay Foresight & Stratagem (LF&S) is an innovative strategic planning and marketing effectiveness consultancy that helps C-Suites, boards, and marketers around the globe to identify, strategically plan, and align using their future competitive advantage. CEO Marsha Lindsay's keynotes and advice, presentations, workshops, and custom consults provide one-of-a kind foresight and uniquely written strategic playbooks to address three interrelated business challenges:1. Potent and rapidly emerging marketplace dynamics around which every organization must now cast their operations, workforce recruitment, business model, technology, competitive strategy, and brand positioning.2. Powerful new strategies and best practices proving both effective and efficient at overcoming the decline in marketing effectiveness which is now noted in every country and every category. 3. Improved approaches to competitive strategy and strategic planning that LF&S has researched, vetted, and perfected. Executives who’ve learned and applied it testify it’s easy to use, readily aligns, and energizes colleagues. They value the company's strategic planning expertise because it prepares them for the future with less risk, more profitable growth, and strong competitive advantage.With decades-long experience as founder and leader of her award-winning agency, Lindsay, Stone & Briggs, Marsha Lindsay ensures the efficacy of LS&F's work with her global think tank of successful executives, entrepreneurs, researchers, and thought leaders. They span countries, industries, ethnicities, and experiences.Clients valuing LF&S include the Fortune 100, multinationals, regional firms, national and global trade associations, VC-infused startups, and think tanks like Monitor Deloitte’s at UC Berkeley and Zurich’s Gottlieb Duttweiller Institute of Economic and Social Studies. She has worked with Columbia University’s Executive MBA program and enlightened conferences from London to NYC, L.A., and Beijing.

Founded by the Aldo Leopold family, the Aldo Leopold Foundaton is dedicated to fostering a modern environmental ethic as defined and advocated by the world-renowned conservationist who was also author of the revelatory Sand County Almanac and father of wildlife ecology and National Wilderness Preservation System. The Foundation promotes a deep respect and appreciation for the land through preservation, education, training, scientific research, and restoration of native landscapes.

AM Best A-rated with assets in excess of $2.4 billion and over $1.2 billion in gross written premiums, across the nation CM Group provides insurance for human-service organizations and non-profits ranging from faith-based institutions to public and private schools, colleges, and senior living communities. Committee service has spanned Audit, Governance and chairmanship of Capital Investment Committee. Highly awarded, recognition of note includes Gallup’s Culture Transformation Award and Deloitte’s award for distinguished performance in innovation.

Consistently ranked among the top 20 private brokers in America, M3 handles the insurance, employee benefits, and risk management needs of clients across the Upper Midwest. Committee service included the Management Development and Compensation Committee.

LSB specialized in the effective positioning, successful launch and accelerated growth of brands and their innovations. Ad Age honored LSB as Small Agency of the year for its thought leadership, creative prowess and marketing effectiveness.

Concurrent with my role as CEO of Lindsay Stone & Briggs, I designed, launched and for several years taught the University's first semester-long MBA course in brand strategy and management.