Chief of Staff

WHO WE ARE

Lindblad Expeditions is a true pioneer in Expedition Travel. From taking the first citizen explorers to Antarctica in 1966, opening the Galapagos and Easter Island to tourism in 1967, leading the first tourist expedition through the Northwest Passage in 1984, and launching our innovative partnership with National Geographic in 2004, we’re now taking almost 30,000 guests a year to some of the world’s most remote and pristine locations on our fleet of 20 ships, and are committed to ensuring our guests experience the “Exhilaration of Discovery”.

POSITION SUMMARY

Lindblad Expeditions is seeking an exceptional leader to serve as Chief of Staff. This is a highly visible enterprise leadership role partnering directly with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to translate strategy into execution, lead complex cross‑functional initiatives, and improve organizational effectiveness.

Acting as an extension of the CEO, the Chief of Staff will help set and advance strategic priorities, strengthen the company’s executive operating cadence, lead Board preparation, and take ownership of CEO‑sponsored initiatives that span functions or do not have a natural organizational owner.

Success requires a distinctive combination of strategic thinking, business judgment, operational rigor, executive presence, and emotional intelligence. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable analyzing an ambiguous business problem, developing a recommendation, facilitating senior‑level discussions, and rolling up their sleeves to drive execution.

• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the CEO, bringing perspective, analysis, and sound judgment to key business opportunities, organizational questions, and complex decisions.
• Partner with the CEO and ELT to define annual strategic priorities and translate them into clear enterprise objectives, ownership, milestones, and measures of progress.
• Build and run the enterprise operating cadence that converts strategic priorities and leadership decisions into consistent execution and follow‑through.
• Maintain a holistic view across the enterprise, identifying cross‑functional dependencies, emerging risks, execution gaps, and opportunities requiring CEO or ELT attention.
• Help focus the organization on its highest priorities and bring structure and momentum to issues that cut across functions or risk falling between organizational lines.

• Take ownership of high‑priority initiatives and complex problems on behalf of the CEO, particularly those that are ambiguous, cross‑functional, time‑sensitive, or lack a natural functional owner.
• Frame complex business questions, conduct or coordinate the necessary analysis, develop recommendations, and mobilize the right stakeholders to move from question to action.
• Drive initiatives end‑to‑end, from defining the problem and determining the path forward through stakeholder alignment, execution, and delivery of measurable outcomes.
• Serve as a flexible enterprise resource who can be deployed against emerging opportunities, organizational questions, and other priorities requiring focused leadership and ownership.

• Partner with the CEO to shape internal and external communications, ensuring clear and consistent messaging aligned with company strategy, priorities, and culture.
• Understand and authentically represent the CEO’s voice and perspective across communications with employees, investors, media, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Draft CEO communications, including company‑wide messages, presentations, talking points, speeches, and stakeholder correspondence.
• Partner with Communications/PR, Investor…