Fractional executive leadership & business advisory
Lidera helps business leaders solve problems that are holding back growth, profitability, or execution.
Whether you need to rebuild a struggling team, bring discipline to a growing business, improve product and pricing decisions, or lead a separation or integration, we get hands-on: identify what is blocking progress, align the right people, and turn priorities into measurable action.
Improve performance • Build stronger teams • Execute change
Lidera was founded by Melissa Lindquist, an executive with 25 years of experience leading global teams across industrial and technology businesses. Her work connects commercial, engineering, operations, and finance to make better decisions and deliver results.
Her experience includes product leadership across a portfolio with more than $800 million in revenue, building product management and PMO functions, leading engineering teams, and owning enterprise readiness for a business carve-out. She has held leadership roles at GHSP, Stoneridge, Harman, Sullair, and Bosch, with additional program management experience at Whirlpool.
Through Lidera, Melissa brings that experience directly to your business. Engagements combine clear priorities, strong problem-solving, and practical leadership, with accountability for moving the work forward alongside your team.
Fractional leadership and focused advisory engagements for businesses navigating growth, organizational change, or performance challenges.
Bring experienced leadership into the business when your team needs additional capacity or a critical initiative needs an owner.
Focus resources on the products, customers, and opportunities that can create the most value.
Keep the business moving while teams navigate the dependencies and decisions of a major transition.
Get stalled initiatives moving and build a reliable way to deliver on business commitments.
Build the structure, capabilities, and working relationships your next stage of growth requires.
Identify where AI and automation can reduce routine work and support better business decisions.
Selected results from Melissa’s corporate leadership career.
Led product management at a midmarket sized Commercial Vehicle supplier, with a fivefold profitability improvement and 25% sales growth across growth product lines.
Introduced a structured launch review process at a Tier1 automotive supplier across more than 65 annual programs. The approach was subsequently replicated in Europe and China.
Aligned commercial and operational teams to reduce stagnant fleet retrofit inventory by $6 million in six months at an ADAS supplier for Commercial Vehicles.
Led the launch of a remanufacturing offering in the construction manufacturer industry, bringing the first unit to completion within six months.
We start by understanding what is getting in the way, what you have already tried, and what success needs to look like. Then we agree on the priorities, the right level of support, and how progress will be measured.
That may mean ongoing fractional leadership or a focused engagement to resolve a specific challenge. In either case, Lidera works alongside your team to make decisions, address dependencies, and build the capability to sustain progress.
Let’s talk about the challenge, the outcome you need, and where experienced leadership could help. An initial conversation is a chance to understand your priorities and see whether Lidera is a fit.
