Lyndsay's NHS career started in 1987 when she joined as a National Management Trainee and rapidly moved into Human Resources. She worked in a variety of Organisational Development, Learning and HR roles in Scotland before being appointed Deputy Director of HR in Argyll & Clyde in 2003. From there Lyndsay moved to NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde working in the senior HR team for 13 years while also bringing up her family. In 2018 she moved to the Scottish Government as HR Adviser in the Workforce Directorate and spent a really enjoyable year supporting the national implementation of Values Based Recruitment and working in NHS Highland with the Executive Team on a number of projects including the initial response to the Sturrock Report.

In 2019 Lyndsay moved to the Scottish Ambulance Service as Director of Workforce and faced a whole new range of opportunities including a global pandemic.

She served as a Non-Executive Director of West College Scotland 2013-2108. In 2019 she was appointed as a Non-Executive trustee and chair of the Staff Governance Committee of Erskine, the Veterans charity.

Outside work and HR, Lyndsay loves reading and history, having trained as a History teacher when she left University. Lyndsay is particularly interested in family history and the calamitous 14th century which has many parallels with the 20th century and the times we are living through now.