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The ABQ Accent | Ep 32 - Linley Daly

July 10, 2025·29 min·1 clip

Mariah Harrison opens with a welcome and frames the show around catalysts, innovators, and risk-takers putting their accent to work. The guest is Lindley Daly, founder of Daly Consulting, a bespoke coaching business. Harrison also describes Daly as ICF professional certified and as a business strategist, executive coach, and leadership coach who works with about 25 to 30 clients each year. From there, the conversation turns to more than 30 years of nonprofit and for-profit innovations. Harrison keeps returning to the idea of turning complexity into clarity. Daly describes herself as a relentless optimist for positive change, and that becomes the thread running through the exchange. Harrison asks what it means to reconstruct things as they begin to deconstruct. Daly answers with a tri-sector argument: municipalities, nonprofits, state government, federal government, and corporates all have a role. She says sustainable change cannot come from only one of them. She also says the social sector brings true solutions and a 360 perspective. Municipal and county systems add something else to the dialogue. Corporate innovation and nonprofit passion become the meeting point she keeps returning to. The goal is to stay in the messy part long enough to find fruitful outcomes. She points to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center as a local example of that mix. Harrison and Daly treat it as a place where native governance, enterprise, and nonprofit support systems work around a community doing extraordinary work. The episode ends on gratitude, with a mention of Bloomstone and its orchid and crystal, then a warm signoff between Mariah Harrison and Lindley Daly. The whole conversation stays practical, local, and focused on how people show up for each other.

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A focused conversation on cross-sector collaboration and turning complexity into practical community action.

The ABQ Accent conversation with Lindley Daly, founder of Daly Consulting, presents a clear case for tackling community problems without working in silos.

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If you want civic strategy with a human pulse, this one fits.

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