Taylor Foss is Mission Hospital’s Senior Vice President of Human Resources.
Foss has over 25 years of human resource management experience. For the past seven years, Taylor worked at LifeBridge Health as Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer. LifeBridge is a regional healthcare system based in the greater Baltimore area. Prior to that, she spent many years in financial services, managing both Human Resources as well as serving as the Chief Administrative Officer. During that time, she oversaw numerous mergers and acquisitions from both sides of the table.
At LifeBridge, Foss helped create a successful “Great Place to Work Strategy” and as a result, LifeBridge was named one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” (2010), won the Best Place to Work designation from the Baltimore Business Journal (2006, 2007, and 2008), and received Maryland TOPS Employer of Distinction Award.
In addition to her leadership position at LifeBridge, Foss has been actively involved in her community, and has served as the Chair of the Women’s Leadership Council - United Way of Central Maryland. Foss currently serves on the National Women’s Leadership Council Board for the United Way of America, where she is Chair of the Leadership Committee and a member of the Women and Worldwide Taskforce. She is a trustee for Notre Dame of Maryland University, serves on the Compensation Committee and is Vice-Chair of the Presidential Search Committee.
Foss received her B.A. at Purdue University, and earned her Master’s Degree in Organizational Consulting and Executive Coaching from the University of Pennsylvania. She is married to her soul mate, Gary Foss, and they have four great adult children, six wonderful grandchildren, and two very loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.
