My Story: Lina Šiumetė

By Lina Šiumetė

A career in transformation has taught me that meaningful change rarely starts with systems or structures alone — it starts with people.

Throughout more than 15 years of international leadership experience across technology, financial services, operations, and consulting, I have consistently found myself stepping into environments undergoing significant transition: scaling organizations, rebuilding underperforming functions, integrating cultures, navigating uncertainty, or preparing businesses for their next stage of growth. What motivates me most is not maintaining the status quo, but helping organizations evolve into healthier, stronger, and more sustainable versions of themselves.

Over more than 15 years in international leadership roles, I have led large teams, built operations from the ground up, supported organizational turnarounds, and worked across diverse cultural and business environments. While those experiences shaped my professional foundation, they also reinforced something more important: sustainable business performance and healthy organizational culture are inseparable. High-performing organizations are not created only through processes and targets, but through leadership environments where people can grow, contribute meaningfully, and adapt together.

This belief led me to co-found Amber Axis — a human-centered consulting practice focused on helping organizations navigate leadership, growth, and organizational development challenges in practical and meaningful ways. Through both consulting and my work as an independent board member, I aim to support organizations not only in achieving performance goals, but in building healthier, more conscious, and future-ready leadership cultures.

I believe transformational leadership is not about authority or visibility. It is about creating momentum, challenging existing thinking, developing others, and leaving organizations stronger than you found them.

As a woman working across technology, consulting, and governance, I also strongly believe in the importance of diverse leadership perspectives in shaping more resilient and sustainable organizations. Being nominated in the Transformational Leadership category is meaningful because it reflects the type of leadership I strive to practice every day — one that combines strategic thinking with empathy, growth with responsibility, and transformation with long-term impact.