Linda K. Bolliger

Linda K. Bolliger has traveled the path of using entrepreneurship to engineer social change. A successful business owner for over 20 years in Washington, DC, she is now recognized as a national diversity & inclusion leader. While operating her management and consulting firm she founded two public service projects: the Enterprise Exchange, Inc., in 1988 that developed the DC Small Business Incubator, a public/private partnership with the DC government; the Boardroom Bound® program in 1999 and allied it with over 30 other national advocacy organizations in a joint effort to stand for quality governance, diversity and inclusionary practices in the for-profit boardroom. Currently Boardroom Bound and its Boardology™ Institute claims the nation’s largest and diverse database of business leaders trained in governance leadership and a successful track record of appointments achieved both domestically and internationally. Ms. Bolliger’s story illustrates how one person can still make a difference in today’s world. Her board service includes both the non-for-profit and for-profit sectors. She chaired the National Women in Poverty Committee for the National Community Action Agency Directors Association, the National Association of Women Business Owners DC Chapter, Friends of the DC Commission for Women, and the Bureau of Rehabilitation. Ms. Bolliger has been an Officer on both the DC and the Ibero American Chambers of Commerce (Secretary/2nd VP and Treasurer, respectively) and received numerous awards and recognition from all these various groups. Together with her late husband she was an Angel Investor and sat on a number of related business boards. Today she continues to chair the Boardroom Bound board, is currently engaged in mentoring next-generation business leaders and does limited public speaking and private consulting. Ms. Bolliger presently serves as a business mentor for the “Seat At The Table” (SATT) organization that is working to increase the number of women in Canadian boardrooms and as a Senior Advisor for the America 21 Project that works to engage Black Americans in the American Innovation Economy.