I'm Lindiwe Stenberg —

CHIEF OF STAFF & EXECUTIVE OPERATOR

I help leadership teams decide what matters, then bring the whole organization along

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About Me

Hi, I'm Lindiwe Stenberg — A Chief of Staff who helps executives turn strategy into execution, and gets the organization to adopt it.

"Leaders have to take people on a journey. Internal communication is how you get everyone there."

I'm a Chief of Staff and executive operator with 15+ years of experience helping senior leaders close the gap between strategy and what actually gets done. At Venmo and PayPal, that's meant strategic planning, resource management, cross-functional programs, and operating infrastructure that helps leaders decide faster and with less noise. My marketing background is the advantage: it taught me to think about the audience before the answer, which is why the processes I build get used instead of admired. Lately that includes AI. At Venmo, I helped lift adoption across the marketing org from 56% to 80%, and learned the hard part is never the tool.

15+

Years of
Experience

40

Person Org
Supported

$200M

Budget Managed  

3

Certifications

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What I Do

Two Ways to Work With Me

01

Chief of Staff & Operations

Strategic planning, cross-functional programs, executive priorities, and the internal communication that gets teams aligned and moving.

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02

Marketing & Design

Designer by background. I take on select brand, campaign, and design projects alongside my operations work.

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Who i've worked with

Venmo
PayPal
Herbalife Nutrition
Morris Group International
Venmo
PayPal
Herbalife Nutrition
Morris Group International

Have any Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

No one really knows...Just kidding. I handle the work between a leader's strategy and the organization actually doing it: planning, priorities, cross-functional programs, resource management, and the communication that gets people aligned. If something needs to happen and has no clear owner, it tends to end up with me.

Usually at an inflection point: a reorg, a new strategy, fast growth, or a big change that has to land with people who weren't in the room. The decisions are made, but the leadership team doesn't have the bandwidth to carry them out and bring everyone along. That's when you call me.

Yes, and it's one of my favorite ways to work. I take on fractional chief of staff and operations engagements, plus AI-enabled workflow builds for teams that want to stop doing things by hand. I also take on select marketing and design projects. If you need someone for a defined stretch, let's talk about what that looks like.

Every engagement is different, so I don't publish a rate card. Scope, timeline, and complexity all factor in — and I'd rather have a real conversation than hand you a number that doesn't fit your situation. Reach out and we'll figure it out from there.

I start by listening more than talking. Before I recommend anything, I want to understand what's actually broken — not just the symptom someone handed me. From there I look at the people, the process, and the tooling in that order, because most operational problems are people and process problems wearing a tooling costume. Then I build toward a solution that the team can actually maintain after I'm gone.

It's where I want to be long term. I have an MS in Healthcare Marketing from RIT and a personal reason for caring: complex systems make hard situations harder, and I'd like to help fix that. My operating experience comes from regulated, many-audiences organizations, and that translates.

When your leadership team is at an inflection point and needs some mental real estate,
I'm the one you call.

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