Speaker
Linda Finley
Community Founder, President and Board Chair
Linda brings her experience as a leader, architect, advisor, community-builder, consultant, practitioner, speaker and coach for the benefit of your organization. Having recently completed her 5 year tenure as Chief Architect for Cargill and continuing since 2010 to lead the TCBAF Business Architecture Community, Linda’s commitment to equipping organizations and individuals for success persists. Her sincere and straight-forward style ensures her effectiveness as a trusted adviser who has enabled improvement, facilitated formation of vision and strategy, and guided desired transformation across a diverse set of organizations. Linda focuses on clarifying individual and organizational purpose as a critical starting point in maximizing the skills and talents individuals bring to organizations, and designing business capabilities for extraordinary results; she is an enthusiastic proponent of the practice and performance of enterprise and business architecture to drive strategy, transformation, and growth.
SessionS
Session
LeanLeaderSummit 2026
Company
Twin Cities Business Architecture Forum
Business architecture is a growing discipline around the world; its practitioners help to ensure that the alignment of capabilities and enablers within all types of organizations is optimized to deliver value to consumers, customers, and constituents in the most effective, efficient, and nimble manner.
Founded in 2010, the Twin Cities Business Architecture Forum (TCBAF) is a Minnesota-based organization dedicated to the understanding and advancement of the role and professional practice of business architecture. We exists to promote common definitions and standards, share ideas, and connect like-minded professionals with networking through meetings, activities, presentations, and educational development opportunities at the local and regional level.
The Twin Cities metro area of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota is a bright spot within the nation for business architecture. We are delighted to have broad awareness, understanding, and adoption of this important discipline locally--expanding nationally and globally--and we believe it strengthens business communities and organizations overall. We are recognized as the largest organized business architecture Community of Practice worldwide, with several thousand members participating in our Community discussions and meetings.