J. Larry Tyler, FACHE, FHFMA, FAAHC, CMPE, Atlanta Office
"One of the Top 100 Most Influential Headhunters in the World."
– BusinessWeek, 2008
J. Larry Tyler, Chairman and CEO of Tyler & Company, also is its CEO Practice Leader and Chief Diversity Officer. Originally from Washington, a small, historic town in eastern Georgia, Larry began his professional career on the audit staff of Price Waterhouse & Co. and became a Certified Public Accountant in 1975. Three years later, he founded Tyler & Company, which conducts executive-level searches for the healthcare and life science industries. Tyler & Company is repeatedly named by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the top 20 in healthcare. Larry serves on the Board of Signium International, a consortium of executive search firms with more than 40 offices in 25-plus countries.
Larry is a Fellow of the American Association of Healthcare Consultants, where he served as Chair of the Board from 1994 to 1995. In 1989, he was named recipient of the association’s Chet Minkalis Service Award. In 1995, he was cited by his peers as one of the top search consultants in the United States in the book, The New Career Makers, by John Sibbald.
Larry is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), where he served as a Chair of the Career Development Committee from 1994 to 1996 and two years on the Editorial Board of ache.org. Larry has served 23 consecutive years as faculty at ACHE’s Congress on Healthcare Leadership. In 1997, he received ACHE’s Regent Award for Georgia. In 2008, Larry also received ACHE’s Distinguished Service Award for his commitment of volunteer service to the healthcare management profession.
He also is a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), where he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of its journal, Healthcare Financial Management. He is a recipient of three of HFMA’s awards for personal participation (Follmer (1993), Reeves (2002) and Muncie (2007)). He is a Certified Medical Practice Executive of the American College of Medical Practice Executives, and he is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Georgia Society of CPAs.
Larry is an adjunct professor in health administration of the University of Colorado Denver and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In 2007, Larry was named to the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) Council of the Americas.
Published works
Tyler, J. Larry. Tyler’s Guide, The Healthcare Executive’s Job Search. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 1994, 1998, 2002.
Tyler, J. Larry and Biggs, Errol. Practical Governance. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2000.
ACHE-funded research studies:
Education
Master of Professional Accountancy, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Personal
Larry is married to Beth, and between them, they have four grown children. Beth was a corporate lawyer, but now is retired to golf and grandchildren. In his spare time, Larry is a gardener and collector of various things, some of which overtake the garage. Larry also is a sailor, and regularly gathers a group to charter sailboats in the Caribbean. Larry is a member of the Seven Seas Cruising Association and the St. Lucia Yacht Club.
His love of the Caribbean gave rise to the presence of a home on his favorite island, St. Lucia – Villa Bella Vista and her sister property, Cozy Cottage. Both are available for rent while Larry and his wife are not in residence.
Larry also makes time for volunteer work. He serves on the board of a nonprofit organization, Hewanorra Health Volunteers, Inc., which supports St. Jude Hospital in St. Lucia. He also is active with Healthcare Leadership Corps, which serves for training healthcare leaders in developing countries.