Faith Montgomery, Vice President, Managing Director, and equity partner, is a member of Lindauer’s executive leadership team. She brings nearly 30 years of deep experience, passion, and expertise in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors to Lindauer and our clients. Prior to joining Lindauer in 2014, Faith held senior leadership positions across the nonprofit sector. She is currently focused on executive level search, talent management initiatives, and coaching for client partners and individuals. Faith brings extensive organizational and operational expertise to clients, with experience in strategic planning, process integration, team building, mitigating bias in hiring and other DEIB principals.

With an extensive background in leadership-level fundraising and building and managing teams for nonprofit organizations, Faith is well-versed in search and talent management across the sector. As a practice area leader for Lindauer, she develops search strategy for higher education and K-12 organizations, while also leading executive level searches for healthcare, think tanks, arts and culture, and social service organizations. Faith is currently engaging and has successfully completed major executive level searches for over 100 reputable institutions such as Fenway Health, Duke University Health, Howard University, Xavier University, George Washington University, University of Southern California, Stanford University, Harvard University, Sidwell Friends, National Cathedral School, Petersen Institute for International Economics, Joint Center for Economics, Measures for Justice, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Princeton Museum of Art, Eastern Bank Foundation, and many more.

Faith serves on the national board of the African American Development Officer’s Network (AADO) and on the local Boston chapter board of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. She is a member of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WOC) and a leader presenter for Women in Development (WID), among others.

Faith holds a BA in Communications/Business from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and an MA in Interpersonal Communications from Purdue University. She is an experienced conference public speaker and presenter, C-suite advisor, and executive level thought partner.

Faith is also Boston Chamber of Commerce DEI certified and is in pursuit of International Coaching Federation ACC/PCC credentials as well as Boston’s YWCA DEI certification.