Paige LaCour

About Paige

Paige LaCour is responsible for leading Community Engagement programs and initiatives at William Blair and has been with the firm since 2014. She manages William Blair’s employee matching programs as well as firmwide volunteerism with local and global charities. Paige oversees William Blair’s signature Global Community Partners grants program, which deploys catalytic human and financial capital in communities around the world.  

Paige serves as founding co-chair and honorary advisor of the William Blair Pride Alliance, an employee business resource group created 2017 to cultivate a supportive culture for LGBTQ+ employees and allies. In her role as advisor, she develops and implements strategies for inclusion, diversity, and equity initiatives across the firm and community. She also coordinates community engagement initiatives for each of the firm’s four business resource groups.

Paige is a founding board director for Out in Finance, a network of LGBTQ+ professionals working in the Chicago financial services industry created in 2020. She currently serves as director of communications in addition to her role on the governing board. Paige earned B.A.’s in both anthropology and English from Indiana University and earned a certificate in museum studies through Northwestern University. Paige most recently received a certificate in Corporate Citizenship Management from Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.