Lyndon A. Taylor

Lyndon A. Taylor is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ Chicago office and the regional managing partner of the Americas CEO & Board of Directors Practice. He focuses on searches at the director and CEO level across a wide range of industries.

Lyndon works with both privately held and publicly traded clients on executive leadership and board director searches and succession engagements. He also advises organizations across sectors on diversity and inclusion strategies.

Recently, Lyndon led the Global Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Practice across executive search and consulting and was the partner in charge of the Chicago office.

Lyndon previously spent more than 10 years with another global executive search firm where he led both the firm’s Midwest financial services business and its global diversity practice.

Earlier in his career, Lyndon worked in investment banking with UBS where he focused on M&A and advisory clients in the energy and utility sectors. Before UBS, he spent five years in corporate development with Enron and began his professional career as a financial analyst in the real estate investment banking group of Merrill Lynch. He also served in the U.S. Navy prior to college.

In 2020, Lyndon was honored by the AESC as one of the inaugural recipients of its new IDEA Award for outstanding contribution to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (or “IDEA”). He was recognized for his work with organizations to help them achieve their DE&I goals, no matter where they are in their journey.

Lyndon is currently chair of the board of directors of Cook County Health & Hospital System. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and serves on the Forums Committee of the Economic Club of Chicago. Lyndon also recently served as a director of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the CFA Society Chicago.

The University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, MBA

Southern Methodist University, BA in History, with Honors

Southern Methodist University, BS in Ethnic Studies

AESC, IDEA Award for outstanding contribution to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA), 2020

Lyndon is currently chair of the board of directors of Cook County Health & Hospital System. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and serves on the Forums Committee of the Economic Club of Chicago. Lyndon recently served as a director of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the CFA Society Chicago.