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About Us

DSG Global is a leading executive search and consulting firm delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients. With expert insights and specialization across industries and sectors, we offer customized strategic support to drive measurable results through leadership. Leveraging decades of experience and global reach, we have a proven history of partnering with leaders to navigate successful transformations that achieve sustained growth and positive impact.

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At DSG Global, Your search will always have a Managing Director leading the process from the beginning through to completion. This emphasis on experience enables the firm to work with clients in challenging internal perspectives and moving beyond the expected.

For more information on our Managing Directors, and all our experts, please visit: https://www.dsgco.com/our-people/

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Solutions And Expertise

In addition to serving Fortune 500, mid-market, and private equity-backed companies through our Corporate practice, we also deliver niche expertise through our family of brands.

Nonprofit & Social Impact Practice

Koya Partners has been placing transformational leaders in the Nonprofit and Social Impact sector for 20 years. Now under the DSG umbrella, Koya’s belief that the right person in the right place can change the world continues to guide their work with leading social impact organizations.

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Education Practice

Defined by excellence and informed by experience, we provide the best value in the education market—because the costs of hiring the wrong leader and benefits of finding the right one are both enormous.

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Healthcare Practice

Grant Cooper has spent over 60 years navigating the healthcare landscape. From academic medical centers to physician groups, children’s hospitals and beyond, they know what it takes to provide the highest-level care.

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Solutions
  • Advisory Services
  • Assessment
  • Board Services
  • Culture Shaping
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Search
  • Leadership Develop.
  • Mgmt. Consulting
  • Onboarding
  • Succession Planning
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Functions

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News Briefings

Will Hot M&A Recruiting Market Cool and Reset Valuations?

Acquisitions made big news in the recruiting industry this year, and for good reason. Outside investors finally caught on to the sector’s expansion potential and long growth runway ahead. Top search leaders also found ways to maximize profit (cutting back on office space helped every search firm achieve a better bottom line in 2022). That

Diversified Search Group Places Board Member for Atkore

Diversified Search Group (DSG), a leading search firm backed by private equity firm ShoreView Industries, has placed Joanne Edwards onto the board of directors of Atkore, a $3 billion electrical products manufacturer. Diversified managing director Lauren Smith led the assignment. “Joanne brings great value to the board,” said Ms. Smith. “She ran a $1 billion

Storbeck Search / Diversified Search Group Seeks President for Boston University

Higher education-focused Storbeck Search, part of the Diversified Search Group, has been selected by Boston University (BU) to lead in its search for its 11th president. Robert Brown recently announced that he will retire as president at the end of the 2022–2023 academic year. The assignment is being led by Shelly Weiss Storbeck, global education practice lead and managing

Diversified Search Group Seeks Chief Diversity Officer for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Diversified Search Group (DSG), a leading search firm backed by private equity firm ShoreView Industries, was recently selected by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta to lead its search for a senior vice president, chief diversity officer and director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI). Managing director Euris Belle is leading the search. The

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Press Releases

Diversified Search Recruits Blake T. Bilstad as WWE General Counsel

PHILADELPHIA, June 17, 2015 — Diversified Search announces the successful recruitment of Blake T. Bilstad as General Counsel of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Bilstad was previously SVP Legal & Public Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary of Provide Commerce, Inc., an e-commerce conglomerate (formerly Nasdaq: PRVD) specializing in the delivery of flowers and other unique gifts through its

Diversified Search Recruits Board Director at Fifth Third Bancorp

PHILADELPHIA, June 15, 2015 — Diversified Search announces the successful recruitment of Jorge L. Benitez to the Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) Board of Directors. Benitez served clients in the chemicals, energy, retail, automotive, consumer goods and services and life sciences industries before retiring from Accenture in 2014. Diversified, founded in 1974, is one of the nation’s

Prout Group Executives Patrick Prout and Betsy Bruening Join Diversified Search

PHILADELPHIA, May 19, 2015 — Diversified Search, one of the nation’s top ten executive search firms, has announced that Patrick M. Prout, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Betsy Bruening, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, both formerly of The Prout Group, have joined as Managing Directors. Prout will be Diversified’s Practice Leader for Financial Services

Diversified Search Recruits Jacksonville State University President

PHILADELPHIA, May 14, 2015 — Diversified Search, one of the nation’s top ten executive search firms, announces the successful recruitment of Dr. John M. Beehler as the 12th president of Jacksonville State University in Alabama. Dr. Beehler will succeed William A. Meehan, who retires June 30th, having held the third longest presidency in the university’s history. The search, which was

Diversified Search Recruits 10th President of Columbia Seminary

PHILADELPHIA, April 15, 2015 — Diversified Search announces the successful recruitment of Dr. Leanne Van Dyk to be the school’s tenth President. She is currently the Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI. Dr. Van Dyk’s appointment is effective July 1, 2015. Diversified, founded in