Rewriting CPR — From Small-Town Classroom to Hollywood’s Screen

“I tell my daughters every day that they’re worth fighting for — so I had to prove I believed that about myself, too.”

When Lindsay Wright walked away from a secure director role with a pension at a local municipality, it wasn’t because she had another job lined up. It was because staying would have meant breaking the very values she was raising her two daughters to live by. That decision — equal parts terrifying and freeing — became the spark behind Lindsay Katherine, LLC, a Whitman-based training and consulting company built on one simple idea: ordinary people can do extraordinary things in moments of crisis if they’re actually prepared.

Origin Story & Mission: A Mother, a Nurse, and a Line She Wouldn’t Cross

Before she was a business owner, Lindsay was the Director of Public Health and Emergency Management for a local town, a nurse by training, and the person you wanted in the room when things went sideways. On paper, it was the kind of job people hold onto for life — benefits, pension, prestige.

But something deeper was at stake.

As leadership values began to drift away from her own, she found herself at a crossroads. “To stay meant that I was not believing in myself to the fullest extent,” she says. “I would’ve been complacent with behavior I wouldn’t tolerate toward my team or from myself.”

Her decision wasn’t just professional — it was personal. She has two daughters watching everything she does. “Everything I do, I think of what it’s going to look like for them,” Lindsay explains. “If I tell them, ‘Don’t stay in places where you’re not valued,’ then I can’t turn around and stay somewhere my values aren’t respected.”

So she did the hard thing. She walked away.

That moment — signing her resignation letter and choosing integrity over comfort — gave birth to something bigger: a company built on clarity, courage, and truly human training.

The Work & Who She Serves: Clarity in Chaos

Today, through Lindsay Katherine, LLC, Lindsay helps people prepare for the moments everyone hopes never happen — the cardiac arrest at the grocery store, the choking kid at a team banquet, the emergency in a classroom or workplace.

She offers:

• CPR & First Aid Training (American Red Cross certified)
• Wilderness First Aid & Babysitting Courses
  
• Leadership and De-escalation Training through her Clarity in Chaos series
• Consulting for municipalities, schools, and organizations that want to improve emergency readiness and leadership culture

On the surface, it looks like a catalog of classes. But underneath, it’s much more than that.

Lindsay doesn’t just teach people what buttons to press or what sequence to memorize. She teaches them to think, to feel, and to act with confidence when chaos hits.

“I’ve always believed in giving the ‘why’ behind what we do,” she says. “You have your own why for coming to class. I have my why for teaching it. When we connect those two, the training becomes meaningful.”

The Problem She’s Solving: The Bystander Effect

Most of us have seen it — a crowd gathers, something’s wrong, and… everyone waits. Someone else will do something, right? Someone else must know what to do.

Lindsay sees this hesitation all the time. “People scan the scene and think, Is someone else going to do it? Can someone else do it? Will somebody else do it?” she says. That’s the bystander effect — and in a medical emergency, it’s dangerous.

Her mission is to replace that hesitation with muscle memory.

She doesn’t want people to leave with just a CPR card to put in their wallet. “When someone needs CPR, tossing your certification card on their chest isn’t going to save their life,” she says with a dry laugh. “It’s the skills you actually practiced — over and over — that matter.”

That’s why her courses are hands-on, scenario-based, and grounded in real-life stress. She understands that in an emergency, we don’t rise to the occasion — we fall back on our training. Her job is to make sure that training is strong enough to catch us.

What Sets Her Apart: High Standards, Real Feedback, and a Human Lens

Plenty of places teach CPR. On paper, the curriculum is the same. But how it’s delivered — that’s where Lindsay draws a hard line.

She uses advanced mannequins that give real-time feedback on an iPad: showing whether chest compressions are deep enough, fast enough, and whether the chest is fully recoiling so the heart can refill with blood.

She once invited a group of seasoned first responders to test themselves on her equipment. They were confident — they’d been doing CPR for years. The mannequins told a different story. They were shortchanging the recoil, which meant less effective compressions.

Then her teenage daughter stepped up. She’d heard Lindsay teach countless times. She took a breath, checked her own pulse, and started compressions — and outperformed several professionals. Why? Because she’d absorbed not just the steps, but the why.

“I don’t want to just send out people with cards,” Lindsay says. “I want to send out prepared community members. I live here. My kids live here. I want people who can act.”

Her teaching style also reflects how she sees people. She doesn’t shame, intimidate, or talk down. She doesn’t demand perfection; she demands honesty.

“I’m always the first person to say, ‘I don’t know, but I’ll find out,’” she explains. “I’d rather someone admit they don’t know than pretend and walk around with the wrong skills.”

Trust is core for her. You don’t earn it — you start with it. “You get my trust right away. Your job is to keep it,” she says. That same posture of trust and respect is what her students feel in the classroom.

Local Roots & Community Connection: Building a Safer South Shore

Lindsay has lived on the South Shore for seven years and calls Whitman, Massachusetts home. This isn’t just where she works; it’s where she raises her girls, walks her dogs, and shows up for local events.

When she worked in municipal public health and emergency management, she was a familiar face at community gatherings, town events, and preparedness drills. That didn’t change when she launched her own business — if anything, it deepened.

She volunteers with neighboring communities’ emergency management teams. She helps at school events. And in her mind, her future classroom is not just a business asset — it’s a community hub.

“One of the things I’m most excited about,” she says, “is that when I have a physical classroom, I want to open it up as a community space. If Scout troops need a room, if sports teams need a place for a pizza party — I want them to have somewhere to go.”

Her work is rooted in a simple belief: your community is safer when everyday people are trained, confident, and willing to act.

Vision & Future Growth: From Whitman to Hollywood

For Lindsay, the dream isn’t just to fill her classes or grow her consulting. It’s bigger — and honestly, pretty radical.

She wants to change how CPR is shown on TV and in movies.

“So many people tell me they ‘learned CPR from watching movies,’” she says. “And I’m like, nooo, that’s not how it’s done. Some of the most famous CPR scenes are completely wrong.” She laughs, then adds, “The scene in E.T.? One of the worst in movie history. There’s another in Jumanji that’s atrocious.”

Her vision: work with Hollywood, streaming platforms, even animation studios to ensure CPR is depicted accurately — even for just a few seconds at a time.

“If every show showed CPR correctly for ten seconds,” she says, “people would start mimicking the right behavior. If we can get that right, we can teach an entire nation basic life-saving skills without them ever stepping into a classroom.”

And if that happens?

“You can’t put a number on it if even one life is saved from that,” Lindsay says quietly. “I don’t need to be the face of it. I just want prepared community members — locally, nationally, everywhere.”

In the near term, she’s launching her Clarity in Chaos leadership series as modular workshops that municipalities, schools, and organizations can bring in. She’s also working toward opening her own warm, inviting training room — a physical space built from two decades of experience in what works in a classroom and what doesn’t.

A Warm Invitation

At her core, Lindsay is a mom of two, a nurse, an educator, and someone who refuses to compromise on her values — even when it costs her what most people would call “security.”

She believes anyone can learn to stay calm in chaos. She believes communities are safer when more people know what to do. And she believes training should feel human, not like a checkbox.

If you’re in Whitman or the South Shore and you’ve ever thought, “I don’t know if I’d know what to do in an emergency,” Lindsay built Lindsay Katherine, LLC for you, your family, and your team.

To learn more about her CPR, first aid, and Clarity in Chaos leadership trainings — or to bring her into your organization — connect with Lindsay Katherine, LLC through her website or on Facebook and Instagram.

Because in those few seconds when a life is on the line, the person who steps forward might just be you.

Lindsay Katherine, LLC

Whitman, Massachusetts

Email: LindsayKatherineLLC@gmail.com

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