Linh C. Nguyen is a nationally recognized leader in organizational strategy, talent development, and change management with over 30 years of experience in management consulting and organizational leadership across the mission-driven sector. Linh is currently the Vice President for Equity, Culture, and Talent for Lumina Foundation. He has served as Chief Operating Officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) in Battle Creek, Michigan. His contributions to the foundation included introducing the networked organizational model to drive continuous collaboration, improvement, and empowerment in partnership with communities; rebuilding the foundation’s learning and evaluation function to align with community-driven outcomes; and strengthening its talent and human resources capacity to build a culture firmly grounded in racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. Linh helped to shape and operationalize WKKF’s external programs such as the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation initiative as well as internal programs to enhance intercultural competency, using the Intercultural Development Inventory among other tools.
Linh holds a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Yale University in New Haven, CT. He lives with his college sweetheart and their teenage daughter in Albuquerque, NM. In his spare time, Linh is also an avid artist, musician, and cook.
