Paige LaCour

About Paige

Paige LaCour is senior community engagement associate at William Blair and has been with the firm since 2014. She is responsible for managing the firm’s community engagement initiatives, including William Blair’s employee gift-matching programs and volunteerism with local charities. In 2022, William Blair and employees contributed over $9MM to more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations worldwide.

Paige serves as Founding co-chair and honorary advisor of the William Blair Pride Alliance, an employee business resource group (BRG) created 2017 to cultivate a supportive culture for LGBTQ+ employees and allies. In her role as advisor, she develops and implements strategy 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 and secretary for Out in Finance, a network of LGBTQ+ professionals working in the Chicago financial services industry created in 2020. She also serves on the associates board for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where she has been a docent since 2010. Paige earned two B.A.’s from Indiana University in 2007 and was named as a Chicago Scholar 35 Under 35 in 2019, through a leadership program that recognizes young professionals for their commitment and dedication in making an impact on the community.