Education
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 the benefits of finding the right one are both enormous.
Active SearchesExperts in Education
Our Education Practice, DSG | Storbeck, is the nation’s leading search organization dedicated exclusively finding mission-driven leaders for the full range of educational institutions from elementary schools to research universities.
Our approach is the same whether we are searching for Presidents and Heads of School or Vice-Presidents, Directors and Deans: We bring a uniquely proactive, rigorous, and personalized approach to uncovering the right candidate for your organization and its stakeholders.
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Engaged Partnerships
We are passionate about understanding your unique leadership needs and culture to determine the combination of experiences and attributes required of your next leader. We treat candidates with as much care as we treat our clients.
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Proactive Approach
Our extensive network is our starting point. We leverage it by taking an insight-driven, conversation-by-conversation approach to uncovering talent, reaching out to potential candidates who may not yet know that the ideal opportunity is waiting for them.
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Outcome-Driven
We deliver on our promises. More than two-thirds of our work is with returning clients, and our clients’ rating of our quality is among the highest for any professional service in any industry.
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Scaled for Success
We offer all the care and expertise of an education-focused boutique firm combined with the resources and reach of a global top-10 search firm. Our pools combine traditional academic candidates and candidates with non-profit or corporate experience.
The sectors we serve
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Colleges and Universities
We conduct higher education leadership searches at every level—presidents and provosts, senior vice presidents, deans, chief financial officers, chief advancement officers, and others. A hallmark of our practice is the range of institutions with which we have partnered, including public, private, mission-driven and faith-based institutions, HBCUs, community colleges, research universities, and liberal arts colleges.
Recent placements
These leaders are poised to make an incredible impact.
A specialized team
We’ve diversified the talent on our team to provide first-hand insight into how to build yours.
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Steven Solnick, PhD
Global Managing Partner and Practice Leader, Education
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Matthew Bunting
Managing Director
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Gerard F. Cattie, Jr.
Global Managing Partner, Practice Founder and Leader, Fundraising & Advancement
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Carly Rose DiGiovanni, EdD
Managing Director
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R. Thomas Fitch, PhD
Managing Director
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Holly Jackson
Managing Director
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Christopher D. Lee, PhD, SPHR
Managing Director
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Steve Leo
Managing Director
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Matthew Marsallo
Managing Director
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Felicia McGinty
Managing Director
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Katie Vivalo Rouse
Managing Director
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Beth Schaefer
Managing Director
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Staci Williams Seeley
Managing Director
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Ruth Shoemaker Wood, PhD
Managing Director
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Jim Sirianni, PhD
Managing Director
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Amy Sugin
Managing Director
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Julie E. Tea
Managing Director
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Paul Towne
Managing Director
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Susan VanGilder
Managing Director
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TaJuan Wilson, EdD
Managing Director
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Jeffrey Alston, EdD
Managing Associate
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Laura Bertonazzi, EdD
Managing Associate
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Laurie Casteen, PhD
Managing Associate
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Anne Koellhoffer
Managing Associate
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Danielle Mebert, EdD
Managing Associate
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Kamilah Allen
Senior Associate
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Jill Beaumont
Senior Research Associate
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Jay Beckham
Senior Research Associate
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Euris E. Belle
Senior Advisor
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Amanda Bennett
Director of Research and Senior Associate, Education Practice
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Christopher Bernard
Senior Associate
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Lesley Boyd
Vice President, Search Operations, Education Practice
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Brian Bustin
Senior Associate
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Katanya Cathcart
Senior Search Coordinator
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Chi Chan
Senior Research Associate
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Matthew D'Annolfo
Manager of Research
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Summer Davey
Search Coordinator
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Christine Falcone
Senior Associate
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Mark Halligan
Senior Associate
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Vicki Henderson
Senior Associate
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Abby Kallin
Senior Search Associate
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Susan Kart, PhD
Senior Associate
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Nora Maurer
Senior Search Coordinator
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Beth McCarthy
Senior Associate and Manager of Search Operations and Quality, Education Practice
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Erin Meissner
Senior Associate
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Kim M. Morrisson, PhD
Senior Advisor
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Michael Nutter
Senior Advisor, Former Mayor of Philadelphia
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Alyssa Perez Leal
Senior Associate
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Kate Phillips, PhD
Senior Associate
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Tabatha Skelton
Senior Search Coordinator
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Lisa Solinsky
Senior Associate
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Ralph E. Tavares, Jr.
Senior Vice President, People and Culture
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Davirah Timm-Dinkins
Senior Search Associate
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Domenique Troilo
Senior Search Coordinator
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Ashley Uffelman
Senior Search Coordinator
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Brittany Weber
Senior Search Coordinator
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From former CEOs helping you find a new one to physicians weighing in on hospital leadership, we’ve diversified the talent on our team to provide first-hand insight into how to build yours.
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