Transparent Executive Search
We are here to take the worry out of finding staffing leaders who fit your business
Our Leadership Team
Duncan Taylor PhD - Managing Director, Morgan Taylor Executive Search
Dr. Duncan Taylor brings over 30 years of executive search and talent strategy leadership to the staffing and workforce solutions sector, with 10 years focused on healthcare staffing. Having served as the in-house executive search consultant at AMN Healthcare and other healthcare staffing companies, he intimately understands the unique margin pressures, regulatory friction, and scalability challenges facing the sector today.
Dr. Taylor’s expertise focuses on replacing the industry's reliance on "gut feel" hiring with data-backed precision. His specialties include:
Architecting Executive Leadership: Identifying "Antifragile" and "Technologically Intuitive" C-suite leaders (COOs, CROs, CHROs) capable of navigating margin compression and AI integration.
Solving the "Producer-Manager" Trap: Vetting executives for true operational maturity and systems-thinking, rather than just their historical sales metrics.
Building Resilient Teams: Implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives that build culturally aligned, high-performing executive layers capable of protecting enterprise client relationships.
The Analytical Advantage Dr. Taylor’s background is highly unique in the executive search industry. Holding a Ph.D. in Medical Parasitology and having led talent initiatives for clinical, pharmaceutical, and enterprise leaders, he possesses a deep, clinical empathy for the healthcare workforce. He applies this PhD-level analytical rigor to executive assessment to ensure a candidate's operational DNA matches your strategic goals.
With Dr. Taylor as your partner, you gain access to:
An "Insider's Perspective" on human capital, drawn from driving executive talent acquisition for multi-billion-dollar healthcare and staffing organizations.
A proven track record of scaling leadership teams across highly regulated, complex enterprise environments.
A transparent, retained search process designed to eliminate the "$5M mistake" of an executive mis-hire.
Let Dr. Taylor and Morgan Taylor Executive Search take the worry out of executive recruiting. We partner with CEOs, Founders, and PE Boards to build the operational leadership teams that turn market volatility into your competitive advantage.
Corporate Partners
Dr. Joyce Pardieu owns and operates JobLeaders, a consulting firm specializing in building performance of leaders, teams, and organizations. With over twenty-five years of experience in industry and corporate consulting, she has designed and led national and global workforce programs and conducted Executive and Team Coaching to over 500 leaders and teams. As a trusted advisor, she simplifies the complex to bring practical, custom solutions to accelerate her clients’ performance by:
Aligning human capital skills to company objectives.
Mitigating human capital risks and unnecessary costs.
Increasing human capital productivity and value.
Through JobLeaders’ program, Targeted People & Organizational Performance℠, she supports her clients’ strategic and financial objectives, providing data-driven workforce solutions to increase performance of leaders, teams, and organizations through customized services:
Strategic Organizational Assessment and Performance Planning to fast-track business results.
Executive Coaching, accelerating leader and team performance.
Executive Selection, to include pre-hire in-dept assessment and improved hiring processes, increasing high performer bench up to 42% (JobLeaders 10-year client dataset).
Strategic Workforce Planning, aligning capabilities to drive results, while proactively managing leadership transitions.
Dr. Pardieu holds a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Master’s in Organizational Behavior. She is certified in various organizational and personality assessments, and in project and change management. She researches, writes and presents on topics related to Effective Hiring, Workforce Performance, and Executive Coaching.
“JobLeaders” is a registered trademark of JobLeaders, Inc.
Tracey Hawkins SPHR - Managing Director, Lead Dog Recruiting
Tracey started her own recruiting company, Lead Dog Recruiting, in July 2020. It is a veteran and woman owned business that grows mainly from repeat and referral business. Her 15 years of recruiting experience has focused on Fortune 500 companies such as BASF, MGM Grand and corporate McDonalds. Tracey brings a background supporting recruiting efforts for engineering giants like FMC, SPX Flow and Parker Hannifin. Tracey Hawkins began her career as an Air Force personnel officer for 8 years before becoming a human resources generalist/manager. She then joined a retained search firm, where she specialized in manufacturing related vacancies.
Tracey holds a Bachelor’s in Industrial Relations from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and a Master’s in Human Resource Management from Webster University. She gained her SPHR certification in 2001.