Work With Me

Hi, I'm Jocelyn Lindenger (she/they)! I’m a white, queer, femme, transgender, nonbinary, disabled, neurodivergent engineering leader who loves coaching. I’ve led teams across startups at various stages, and worked in government and a variety of industries. My practice blends uncolonizing power, consent frameworks both for self and in relationship, somatics, disability justice, and queer embodiment so people can lead and grow without reproducing harm (as much as possible)—and without burning out.

I work with managers and individuals (especially from underrepresented groups and nontraditional backgrounds) to build leadership, growth, and careers that are relational, negotiated, and livable. This isn’t about polishing performance. It’s about liberating how we work and accessing and supporting agency within systems not built for us.

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A little mini bio

  • 20+ years in software & engineering leadership, building teams and mentoring individuals across all career stages
  • 4 years caring for 2SLGBTQIA+-, Transgender-, and Disability-focused ERG/affinity group communities
  • Somatic embodiment, empowerment, and movement influences as a burlesque performer, butoh dance student, and Zen practitioner
  • Trauma-aware facilitation practice
  • Postgraduate education in qualitative methods for exploring alterative futures
  • Also I’m covered in tattoos, probably have blue hair, and love cats and coffee

My Positioning (So You Know)

I’m not a leadership guru. I’m not trying to scale a method. I’m someone who’s held power — and held harm. I’m trying to build something better from the ground up as a living system, not a polished product.

This is leadership and growth from the margins, for the margins. It’s soft, slow, messy, and magical. It’s not about productivity, but about possibility and wholeness. Let’s make productivity a side effect.

While I experience being disadvantaged in many ways due to the intersections of my various identities, I acknowledge that I also experience a great deal of privilege, in particular due to my whiteness. I am continually in a learning and growing process around the ways that influences how I show up in the world, and invite feedback around that, especially in moments when I reproduce or cause harm. I live and work in the unceded territory of the Munsee Lenape and Canarsie people.