LINDLEY
GOODEN
Journalist. Factual film director. Keynote speaker.
Founder & Cheerleader-in-Chief, Greenscreen.
Author, The Future of Truth (and How to Get There).
01.
In brief
Lindley has spent more than 30 years in national news, factual film, media training and communications.
He's a former BBC Senior Journalist and correspondent for ITN and Sky News, and since 2005 he has led Greenscreen, the communications company behind thousands of films, many of them award-winning in PR, advertising and documentary. Lindley and his team have trained and advised governments, charities and some of the world's best-known companies.
He is also the author of The Future of Truth (and How to Get There), founding co-host of The AI Values Podcast and an in-demand keynote speaker and event chair on organisational trust, AI and disinformation.
02.
Speaking
Trust is now every organisation's most valuable asset, and AI is testing it everywhere at once. Lindley speaks about what that means, and what to do about it.
Lindley brings three decades of newsroom and boardroom experience to that challenge: fresh evidence, real stories and practical steps audiences can use right now. Every talk is built for the room, across financial services and insurance, media and publishing, technology, healthcare, public services and risk.
Signature talks
- Building Trust in the Age of AI. When AI can fake a CEO's voice or an urgent email, what can your customers and staff still believe? A practical framework for protecting trust, reputation and regulatory standing.
- The Commercial Value of Truth. Why trust is now a measurable commercial asset: what misinformation costs business, and the premium that trusted organisations earn.
- The Future of Truth. How misinformation and disinformation work, why we fall for them, and how people and organisations can fight back. For leadership teams, staff and public audiences. 30 to 60 minutes, or a half-day workshop.
Lindley is also a regular guest on podcasts and at events in risk, technology and communications.
Stages include
- WAN-IFRA World Printers Forum and DistriPress Congress, Rotterdam, October 2026.
- 2C2P Payments Summit, Singapore.
- MoneyLIVE Summits and Insurance Innovators Summits, as speaker, host and chair since 2008.
- National Safeguarding Conference for the rail industry, 2025.
03.
The Future of Truth
(and How to Get There)
Lindley's book The Future of Truth (and How to Get There) explains misinformation and disinformation: how they work, why we've fallen so hard for them, and how every one of us can fight back.
Social media polarisation, bias in news storytelling and extreme politics didn't arrive by accident. They're designed to reach the part of us that reacts first and thinks later. The book shows how that design works, and how to step around it, wherever your timeline takes you.
Now in its second edition, in print, ebook and audiobook.
Lindley is the Founder & Cheerleader-in-Chief of Greenscreen.
He created the multi-award winning communications business in 2005 to be a place where organisations in the news could speak with more clarity and authenticity, using content and stronger media relationships to better inform customers and the wider world.
Greenscreen has produced thousands of films, trained and coached all levels of public spokespeople and created some of the UK's highest-rated digital events in AI, tech innovation, banking, insurance, healthcare and more.
Clients work directly with the people making their content: no layers, no hand-offs, and engaging work even when budgets are tight. That's why more than 90% of Greenscreen's work has always come from repeat clients and referrals, from Howden Insurance Group to Which?, Cancer Research UK to LEGOLAND Windsor.
You can find Greenscreen's website right here.
05.
The longer story
From national newsrooms to multinational boardrooms, academia and a blue-collar upbringing, Lindley's career has been a journey of many paths.
Trust
Today his focus is trust: how organisations earn it, keep it and protect it as AI reshapes the way we find and believe information. He writes about it in The Future of Truth, explores it on The AI Values Podcast, and takes it to conference stages around the world. He's also a regular guest on podcasts and at events in risk, technology and communications.
Career
It's a focus built on more than twenty years at Greenscreen, training and interviewing the leaders of the world's largest and best-known businesses. Lindley and his team have helped hundreds of organisations find a clear, credible voice that they can use in good - and challenging - times. Greenscreen has won a clutch of top PR, marketing, advertising and documentary awards - from PR Week to the documentary gold at Cannes World Film Festival. They began by making the UK's earliest viral videos for business, helped Which?'s experts become the country's go-to consumer voices through the financial crisis, and have produced thousands of films which - aside from the plaudits - have steered government policy on areas including climate change and education.
Lindley had been the Consumer and Finance Correspondent at Channel 5 News and Sky News, investigating fraud and taking on big brands for viewers. At the BBC, he was a Senior Journalist, working on BBC Three's groundbreaking 7 O'Clock News, reporting for multiple outlets including Radio 4, 5 Live and Radio 1, and among the first BBC broadcast journalists to be asked to write for the BBC News website. Earlier still, as Head of News at Wyvern FM in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, he built a newsroom from scratch and became known as commercial radio's most successful Head of News.
Over thousands of interviews, from fraud victims and survivors of terrorism to politicians and stars including Michael Jackson and Ricky Gervais, people have opened up to him. Sir Richard Attenborough said about him “You really are the finest interviewer, dear boy” ... clearly, Lindley was a little younger then. But this focus on trust, clarity and audience-focus continues in a vast range of live events and streamed webinars where he shapes the content live and gets senior leaders ready to speak with confidence.
Academia & early life
Lindley trained as a journalist at Cardiff's prestigious School of Journalism and earned his Postgraduate Diploma there. He also has a Postgraduate qualification in marketing and advertising communications from The University of Westminster. Before the transition into broadcasting, Lindley was a theoretical physicist and graduated with a Research Masters M.Phil., solving a previously unsolved Einstein equation and modelling materials now used in devices including our mobile phones. Behind him were a maths and physics degree at The University of Warwick, in contrast to his blue collar background working on building sites from the age of ten through to his university years.
Lindley's varied path has formed a very strong awareness of what works and what doesn't in storytelling and the most important information issues facing society today.
