Lindsey All
Women’s Business Enterprise Council South (WBEC South)
President and CEO
Assumed New Position: February 2025
For the first half of her career, Baton Rouge native Lindsey All worked in the energy industry, both in the field and on the corporate side — managing projects at chemical and renewable energy plants and managing teams of people in various fields. She said she soon realized that she was one of very few women in her field, and younger than many others, sometimes by decades.
“As I moved up in leadership, more barriers to success for women in male-dominated fields became clear to me,” she said. “However, I was not in a position to make much of a difference at the time other than for my direct team.”
In 2016, All put herself in the position to make a difference by joining the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) based out of Washington, D.C. All designed and launched the Energy Executive Program (EEP) for Women Owned Business Enterprises (WBEs) — the organization’s first industry-focused learning intensive for entrepreneurs in the petrochemical and energy space — and launched the first Chemical Industry Advisory Board at WBENC. In multiple roles for the organization— most recently as VP of diversity, equity and inclusion — All worked with the full gamut of women entrepreneurs, from multimillion-dollar WBEs to small startups.
When the opportunity to come home to Louisiana presented itself, however, she jumped at it.
“Stepping into [this role] is so exciting to me as a South Louisiana native because I can now take the experience of providing development opportunities for business owners across the nation to make more of a direct impact on where we live and work.”
All noted that the current national climate offers up both challenges and opportunities, but it is the opportunities that she is most focused on.
“With all the new manufacturing and business coming to Louisiana and the Southeast, there is a huge opportunity to support those new businesses as they seek suppliers to build and support their work,” she said. “Next, we have a beautiful coworking and event space in the heart of the New Orleans Warehouse and Arts District (WB Collective in the Central Business District) that is primed and ready to support business owners and professionals.”
“Companies that are very risk-averse with good intentions may pull back support of programs and initiatives due to the uncertainty right now. However, I believe advocacy for everyone having a seat at the table, breaking down barriers through upskilling and capacity building are the right things to do and that corporations will ultimately continue to do these things because they keep their organizations innovative, nimble and strong.”
