In 2006, Lindstrom was appointed to the panel of junior national selectors by Rowing New Zealand (RNZ), and he later became the convenor of this panel. He was a rowing coach at his old school, St Bede's College, for many years. Travelling to the 2015 Maadi Cup, two of his rowers were involved in a security breach at Auckland Airport. St Bede's headmaster stood the rowers down from the regatta and Lindstrom had a public fallout with the headmaster over the affair. It resulted in him resigning as rowing coach at St Bede's, but he was also dumped by RNZ as a junior selector. Lindstrom is now coaching the Wanganui Collegiate School rowing club, providing results to the school within his first year of coaching.