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Top 12 Board diversity consulting firms based in Chicago, United States

RevenueBase identified 28 board diversity consulting firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,492 professional contacts across them, including 1,607 with verified work emails and 864 with mobile numbers. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers board diversity consulting firms headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 2, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 2, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
28Companies
3,492Contacts tracked
1,607Verified emails
864Mobile numbers
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The 12 largest board diversity consulting firms based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 12 of 28 board diversity consulting firms based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 2, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to board diversity consulting firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United States1,001-5,0003,363 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Heidrick & Struggles is the premier provider of executive search, corporate culture and leadership consulting services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
2Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United States11-5023 contacts →

Partial evidence

“JamesDruryPartners is an elite board advisory services firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
3Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United States11-5020 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Morten Group focuses on organizational and resource development, including workshops on diversity and building communities of inclusion and access, racial equity integration and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
4Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United States1-1019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“For 40 years, Carrington & Carrington, Ltd.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
5Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United States1-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Red Bee Group partners to assess, build and improve upon your current capabilities.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
6Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United States1-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“GOBU ASSOCIATES, LLC is a high-touch executive search firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
7Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United States11-505 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Executive Advisory is a well-known, Chicago-based research and recruiting firm that has been helping executives seek board seats for two decades.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
8Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United States11-503 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Welcome to Ponder Diversity Group (PDG)!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
9Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United States1-103 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Lydian Partners is an independent executive search firm offering deep expertise in CFO Search, Succession and Board & CEO Advisory.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
10Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United States1-103 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Retained executive search firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
11Partial evidenceChicago, IL, United States1-101 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We help accomplished diverse leaders find company board of director positions, often chapter two of their careers with an opportunity to give back.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026
12Indirect evidenceChicago, IL, United States1-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Cultiver's mission is to drive the meaningful change imperative to achieve truly diverse talent pipelines & leadership teams and critical for innovation & ‘future of work’ success.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 2, 2026

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Board diversity consulting firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 2, 2026
46.0%Verified-email coverage
24.7%Mobile-number coverage
124.7Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
167.9%Largest-city concentration · New York
Sep 2, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
21
11-50
6
1,001-5,000
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How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among board diversity consulting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “board diversity consulting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names board diversity consulting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among board diversity consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,607 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 2, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Board diversity consulting firms by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names board diversity consulting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many board diversity consulting firms are there based in Chicago, United States?

RevenueBase identified 28 board diversity consulting firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Heidrick & Struggles, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most board diversity consulting firms?

New York leads with 47 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (28) and Washington (21).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,607 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 28 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 2, 2026.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.