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 SearchesThe DSG | Storbeck difference
Clients come to us, and return, for our high-quality client service and exceptional placements. Our networks span the nonprofit, private, and public sectors. We are motivated by the opportunity to advance mission-driven work, a firmwide commitment that impacts our approach and results in trusted and lasting partnerships.
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Engaged Partners
We are passionate about understanding your unique needs and culture to determine the combination of experiences and attributes required of your next leader. Our collaborative and rigorous approach creates confidence across community members and constituent groups in the integrity and transparency of the search process and positions your new leader to succeed.
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Uniquely Proactive
Our extensive network is our starting point, not a shortcut to what we see as the actual work: an insight-driven, conversation-by-conversation approach to uncovering talent. We look in obvious and non-obvious places to connect you with candidates of outstanding ability and potential from all backgrounds.
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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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“People” People
We treat candidates with as much care as we treat our clients, whether they end up being “the one” for a current role or not. The trust we earn along the way is why prospects take our calls for the next opportunity, are happy to work with us again and again, and often become our clients.
The sectors we serve
- Colleges and Universities
- Schools
- Related Nonprofits
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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, VPs for Community and Belonging, and additional roles across all functions. A hallmark of our practice is the range of institutions with which we have partnered: private and public; selective liberal arts colleges; large research universities; academic medical centers; mission-driven, faith-based, rising, and established.
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Schools
Our Education Practice brings high levels of expertise and customization to search and leadership consulting in the PreK-12 sector. We take the time to thoroughly understand your school and tailor our strategies to produce the best candidate pool and the most successful search outcome.
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Related Nonprofits
We serve nonprofit organizations with an education focus, including associations, university museums, foundations, centers and research institutes, laboratories, and advocacy organizations.
Current Opportunities
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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Susan VanGilder
Global Managing Partner and Practice Leader
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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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Jennifer Mason, PhD
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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Steven Solnick, PhD
Managing Director
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Amy Sugin
Managing Director
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Julie E. Tea
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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Ethan Dubow
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 Search 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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Carol Fairborn
Search Associate
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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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Liz Moseley
Senior Associate
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Michael Nutter
Senior Advisor, Former Mayor of Philadelphia
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Julia Patton
Senior Associate
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Alyssa Perez Leal
Senior Associate
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Kate Phillips, PhD
Senior Associate
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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
Diversified expertise
across industries
Forge your future here
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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