Lindsey Jones
Co-Founder & CEO

Lindsey M. Jones brings a strategic, people-centered, and action-oriented approach to Pivot Advisors—shaped by nearly 20 years of experience helping organizations navigate growth, transformation, operational complexity, and change.

Throughout her career, Lindsey has worked inside organizations during the moments when leadership matters most: rapid growth, organizational restructuring, leadership transitions, mergers and acquisitions, and the evolution from entrepreneurial businesses into more sophisticated organizations. Having served in senior executive roles including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, she understands firsthand the pressure business owners and leaders face when the company they built begins to outgrow the systems, structures, and strategies that got them there.

Her experience spans operations, organizational strategy, human resources, technology, leadership development, and business transformation. Lindsey has led teams and functions through significant periods of growth while building the infrastructure, accountability, and leadership practices needed to support what comes next.

Lindsey’s perspective is grounded not only in advising businesses, but in building, operating, and transforming them from the inside.

Career & Business Highlights:

• Nearly 20 years of leadership and organizational experience across privately held businesses, professional services, consumer brands, construction, energy, and nonprofit organizations

• Served as Chief Operating Officer of a public accounting firm

• Served as Chief Administrative Officer of Death Wish Coffee, helping lead the organization through rapid growth and organizational transformation

• Led and supported functions spanning operations, HR, technology, safety, organizational development, and strategic execution

• Experienced in M&A integration, private-equity transitions, succession planning, and transaction readiness

• Implemented operating systems and organizational infrastructure designed to create greater accountability, visibility, and scalability

• Recognized as an Albany Business Review 40 Under 40 honoree

• Holds an MBA from Union Graduate College and a bachelor’s degree from Siena College

Lindsey is known for seeing what others often miss—connecting people, strategy, operations, and execution to uncover what is actually holding an organization back.

She challenges assumptions, asks the questions others may avoid, and helps leaders move beyond the roles, systems, and expectations that have begun to limit them.

Her philosophy is simple: growth rarely comes from staying inside the structure that created today’s results.

At Pivot Advisors, Lindsey helps business owners and leaders Get Out of the Box—challenge what is, see what could be, and build what’s next.