At William Blair, we're committed to our colleagues, our clients, and our communities.
Serving our clients starts with the capabilities and collaboration of our team—making our employees our most important asset. When we create an environment where employees perform their best, our delivery for clients will be the best it can be. As a firm we're committed to the places in which we live and work, engaging with local communities all over the world.
We strive to attract and retain the best people. As we do, we embrace skills and perspectives from around the globe—and welcome new ideas. This helps us deliver the tailored, thoughtful work our clients have known us for.
Our values articulate who William Blair is today—and where we want to be tomorrow. These eight core values help us stay true to our heritage while positioning us to innovate and find new ways to deliver exceptional results.
Honor our commitments while always upholding the highest ethical standards.
Driven to provide exceptional service and outcomes.
Find joy in what we do, seek balanced lives and celebrate the successes of our clients, teams, and each other.
Actively embrace diversity of thought, opinion, and background.
Anticipate new opportunities, embrace change, and adapt.
Promote organizational, team and individual initiative.
Set the highest bar for quality in all our pursuits.
Be leaders, investing together in the enduring success of our colleagues, clients, and communities.
PARTNERSHIP
Partnership to me is having colleagues willing to embrace new ideas, accept challenges to norms and work together to drive our franchise forward.
Shantha Ozgen, Institutional Sales
INTEGRITY
Integrity is complete trust that your colleagues know the difference between right and wrong and are consistently willing to stand up for their beliefs through their actions.
David Ricci, Investment Management
CLIENT FOCUS
Client focus means becoming a trusted part of our client’s team!
Dan Daul, Investment Banking
ENGAGEMENT
Engagement requires that we bring the fullness of our attention into everything we do. It means bringing not only criticisms of what isn’t working, but our best ideas around how we can work and live better to make engagement an action instead of merely a concept.
Toya Garcia-Bradow, Philanthropy Strategy & ESG Integration
INCLUSIVITY
Inclusivity is the intentional formation of an environment where differences are understood to be strengths.
Satya Pandey, Information Technology
AGILITY
The essence of agility is leveraging combined experience and expertise, affording the opportunity to anticipate evolving needs and approach obstacles with foresight. The more we embrace change and effectively adapt, the greater the overall outcome is for our colleagues, clients, and communities.
Stephen Quirk, Investment Banking
EXCELLENCE
Excellence is working tirelessly and giving your all to achieve phenomenal outcomes for clients while also being the best partner and teammate you can be for your William Blair colleagues.
David Brown, Private Wealth Management
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship is looking at something we do and asking ourselves and others, “How could we do this better?”
Laura Van Peenan, Investment Banking
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