About Us
Linwood Talent Advisors helps organizations make better leadership decisions. We partner with private equity, executive teams, and professional services firms on hiring and talent strategy, delivering retained executive search and advisory services that support growth and long-term value creation. Our work is grounded in real operating context and designed for organizations navigating expansion, transition, and complexity.
What We Do
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Retained Executive Search
Linwood partners with organizations on critical leadership hires across the C-suite, senior leadership, and revenue driving roles. We support platform buildouts and growth-stage hiring where leadership decisions have an outsized impact on performance. Every search is highly targeted, led at the senior level, and executed through a deliberate, hands-on process.
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Talent Advisory & Strategy
We advise organizations on role design and organizational alignment during periods of change. Our work focuses on ensuring leadership structures support strategic objectives, scalability, and long-term business goals. Linwood acts as a trusted partner as companies evolve, professionalize, or prepare for their next phase.
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Market & Compensation Advisory
Linwood provides real-time market intelligence to inform leadership hiring and compensation decisions. We offer insight into talent availability, competitive positioning, and compensation structures. Our guidance helps clients remain competitive while aligning incentives with performance and value generation.
Our Difference
Partnership Approach
We operate as a true extension of your leadership team, bringing attention and accountability to every engagement. Relationships are long-term and built on trust, transparency, and shared outcomes.
Competitive Intelligence
Our recommendations are informed by real-time insight into executive talent markets and compensation dynamics. Clients rely on us for clarity, competitiveness, and informed decision-making.
Value Add Mentality
Our work is focused on business impact, not just filling roles. We provide thoughtful guidance throughout the hiring process and beyond, ensuring leadership decisions support growth and execution.
Operational Experience
We bring firsthand experience within PE-backed environments and professional services. This perspective allows us to understand scale, business dynamics, and leadership needs at critical inflection points.
Meet the Founder
Lindsey Webb, Managing Partner
Lindsey brings more over 15 years of experience advising professional services, private equity portfolio companies, and funds on senior and executive talent. She partners closely with C-suite leaders, boards, and investors to identify leaders who drive value creation, operational scale, and long-term growth, serving as a trusted advisor throughout the hiring and assessment process. Her deep understanding of PE environments enables her to guide clients through leadership decisions tied to transformation, integration, and exit-readiness in highly competitive markets.
Before starting Linwood, Lindsey worked within a boutique executive search firm focused on retained senior-level and executive hiring, where she advised private equity–backed and professional services organizations on critical leadership needs. Prior to that, she held senior recruiting and leadership roles at Riveron—a PE-backed professional services firm—as well as Houlihan Lokey and Grant Thornton. At Riveron, she built and led strategic recruiting initiatives in close partnership with executive leadership, supporting rapid growth, acquisitions, and organizational evolution. Across her career, Lindsey has recruited senior leadership across a variety of areas including, Office of the CFO, Advisory, Value Creation, and corporate functions, delivering tailored human capital solutions aligned with each client’s strategy, investment horizon, and value-creation plan.
Lindsey is actively involved with ACG, TMA, the Women’s Association of Venture & Equity, and Dress for Success–Chicago.
Get in Touch
Whether you’re a leader exploring your next move or an organization navigating a critical hire, we’d welcome the opportunity to connect.
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