Lisa Byala, Founder and Principal of ByalaSearch, has spent the last twenty-five years in recruiting and executive search, including five years at the international global executive search firms, Heidrick & Struggles and Spencer Stuart, in their Education and Not-for-profit practices. She specializes in placing Presidents and Executive Directors, senior development professionals and administrative and functional leaders in cultural organizations, academia, foundations and research institutes. Ms. Byala is also an executive and organizational coach through her program Executive and Culture Consulting: From the Board to the Team and Back AgainTM.
Prior to her tenure in executive search, Lisa was a recruiter for a national law firm and worked in the editorial divisions of Penguin Random House’s Bantam Doubleday Dell, Knopf and Vintage Español divisions.
Ms. Byala is a cum laude graduate of Barnard College with degrees in Spanish and French and has a Master’s Degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of Virginia. A former board member of the Tuesday Evening Concert Series in Charlottesville, Virginia and volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she is a member of the Director’s Circle at the Katonah Museum of Art. Ms. Byala and her husband support music education in New York City public schools through Third Street Music School Settlement, where she is a current student and has served as a Trustee.