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Lyndsey Girod Ramsey, founder and principal of Bluestem Advisory
About us

Lyndsey Girod Ramsey

Founder & Principal

Lyndsey's career began in the soil — studying its characteristics and writing conservation plans alongside farmers, where the lesson took root early: what lies beneath the surface decides what stands above it.

Her work started in science, data, mapping, and careful reading of a landscape. Ever since, Lyndsey has carried her discipline outward, putting it to work for a far greater circle: farmers, organizations, and the communities they hold together. Along her journey, Lyndsey learned to listen at scale to thousands of members, volunteers, and board members, to turn what people say into direction they're proud to own.

Bluestem Advisory carries that arc forward: understand how an organization truly works before trying to move it, and help it close the gap between where it is and where it says it wants to be. Patient work, deep roots, plans that stand strong.

  • M.S., Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences · University of Illinois
  • B.A., Geography · Dartmouth College
  • Leaders of Distinction, “Twenty Under Forty” · 2025
  • Vice President, U of I College of ACES Alumni Association Board
The practice

One practice,
rooted well.

The firm is deliberately small — the work in front of clients is matched by the discipline behind it.

Client work · Stewardship

In the field, and behind it

Every engagement is led personally — the discovery, the analysis, the recommendation. What we offer is judgment, earned in the field, so the person you meet is the person who does the work. And behind that work, the firm holds itself to the same standards it recommends: mission, commitments, and delivery kept in careful order. We tend our own ground the way we'd tend yours.

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