Marshall Lindsey, PhD
Coach, advisor, and capital strategist helping growing businesses build resilient teams and durable leadership.
Marshall Lindsey works with founders and CEOs at the stage where growth starts to outpace the systems and habits that got them there. As an entrepreneurship adjunct professor and startup advisor (in association Blackstone LaunchPad) at the University at Buffalo, he coaches early-stage ventures on fundraising strategy, capital management, and business model development. He's also the founder of HazelHerman LLC, where he advises growing businesses on strategic finance, leadership alignment, and organizational clarity — and co-founder of Half Step, a social impact asset management platform helping mission-driven organizations access the capital and infrastructure to grow.
That founder-level work is backed by two decades in capital markets, energy infrastructure, and organizational strategy, including structuring over $1.3 billion in transactions and contributing to more than $6 billion in capital raised globally. Marshall brings the same rigor he used to build institutional-scale systems to help smaller, faster-moving teams build the leadership and structure to scale on their own terms.
Education
PhD, Chemical and Biological Engineering – Northwestern University
MBA, Finance, Marketing, and Strategy – Carnegie Mellon University
MS, Chemical Engineering – Carnegie Mellon University
BS, Chemical Engineering – Case Western Reserve University
Areas of Focus
Marshall’s work spans multiple disciplines at the intersection of leadership, organizational excellence, finance, and sustainability, including:
Team performance and operational design
Organizational and financial strategy
Leadership alignment and development
Climate, decarbonization, and sustainability
In my words
In my experience, most teams need this work, and most leaders either don't see it or would rather not deal with it. That's the gap I work in.
Maybe you're trying to prioritize a set of responsibilities that keeps growing. Maybe you're struggling to hold your people accountable without doing their jobs for them. Maybe it's something you haven't put words to yet. Whatever it is, my approach is the same: I hold up a mirror. We build your self-awareness first, then the tactics that follow from it: how to delegate instead of taking over, how to communicate change so it actually lands, how to say less and trust it to carry, how to use mindfulness to remain objective, and where to seek therapy to supplement the coaching.
I build executive presence. I build executive leaders. And in the process, I hope to build better citizens.