From national newsrooms to multinational boardrooms, academia and a blue-collar upbringing, Lindley's career has been a journey of many paths.

Trust

After more than 30 years interviewing at the top level and informing audiences, Lindley's focus is on trust: how organisations earn it, keep it and protect it as AI reshapes the way we find and believe information. It's now critical in the age of AI search. And Lindley 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 other people's podcasts and at events in communications, technology and resilience.

Career

Trust is a focus built on two decades serving clients at Greenscreen, training leaders of the world's largest and best-known businesses and creating content that's moved millions of people. 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 also 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 science and education.

Lindley was 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 and much-copied 7 O'Clock News, reporting for multiple outlets including Radio 4, 5 Live and Radio 1 as a reporter and co-presenter, and he was 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”. And a focus on quality information delivered creatively continues across a vast range of live events and streamed webinars where he shapes the content live and gets senior leaders ready to speak with confidence and clarity.

Academia & early life

Lindley trained as a journalist at The University of Cardiff's prestigious School of Journalism and earned his Postgraduate Diploma there. He also has a Postgraduate distinction 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 was a Maths and Physics Honours Degree at The University of Warwick. All of this was a far cry from his working class upbringing, having worked on building sites with his brother from the age of ten. But perhaps that's another story.

This varied path has given Lindley a deep awareness and a rigourous approach to the most important information issues facing society today, and how different audiences form their beliefs and behaviours.

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