Linda Lambert, Ed.D. is Professor Emeritus from California State University, East Bay, an international consultant and author of novels and texts on leadership. During Linda’s career extensive career, she has served as social worker, teacher, principal, district and county directors of adult learning programs, as well as university professor, state department envoy to Egypt, and international consultant. Her international consultancies in leadership have taken her to the Middle East, England, Thailand, Mexico, Canada, and Malaysia. Her work in leadership is in use in more than 80 countries.
Linda is the author of dozens of articles and lead author of The Constructivist Leader (1995, 2002), Who Will Save Our Schools (1997), and Women’s Ways of Leading (2009); Liberating Leadership Capacity: Pathways to Wisdom (2016), and Women’s Ways of Leading: Revisited (2025). She is the author of Building Leadership Capacity in Schools (1998) and Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement (2003). Linda’s first historical novel, Cairo Codex, 2013, followed by The Italian Letters in 2014. The third novel in the Justine Trilogy, A Rapture of Ravens, Awakening in Taos, followed in late 2014.
She lives with her husband, Morgan, a retired school superintendent, in Santa Rosa, California.