An honest advocate for better leadership, particularly on boards.
Grant Taylor is the Founder and CEO of Peridot Partners. He leads the growth and development of a team of over 50 professionals across the UK. A seasoned recruitment expert with nearly 30 years’ experience working in executive search, helping strengthen society’s leadership in purpose-driven organisations.
Grant has experience in four trustee roles, including most recently as Co-Chair at Getting on Board. His passion for working with boards has also seen him appoint hundreds of trustees and non-executive directors and deliver board reviews, skills audits and governance consulting for Peridot’s clients.
He still undertakes a little board work; his latest project, running through 2026 and into 2027, is to help the England Amputees Football Association build their board.
Grant has a personal interest in advocating for and supporting the growth of women’s football, currently coaching a U16 girls’ team at Potters Bar Town FC, which competes in the Junior Premier League.
Talk to Grant about:
- Strategic partnerships or collaboration opportunities, especially regarding board development and recruitment
- Trustee, board or executive recruitment
- Working for Peridot Partners
Why I set up Peridot Partners.
In 2009, Grant decided that he wanted to start a different type of recruitment agency. Peridot was born and with it a focus on values-led recruitment and relationship building.
Read some of Grant's articles:
- Peridot Partners is now a certified B Corp
- Why cognitive diversity on boards leads to better decisions
- Interim recruitment with The Freud Museum
- How to attract the best charity trustees
- Paying trustees for their time – should we?
- Who has the time to be a trustee?
- Lived experience isn’t an optional add-on
- Peridot Partners become a Fostering Friendly employer
