Dalton Group LLC

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Bret Dalton

Our Vision

Our Vision

High Impact Leadership Teams built through our strategic partnership with our clients.

Our Purpose

The Right Leader in the Right Role found by under-standing organizational culture and functional needs, then identifying, attracting, and assessing leaders and assisting final selection.

Our Focus

Leaders and Leadership.

Our Difference

We know that our Role is Serving Others; we partner with you and ask the hard questions so that the executives we help you recruit are able to lead well and produce desired results.

Our Success

Your Success is how we Measure our Performance and the caliber of the executives we recommend directly affect your performance.

Our Clients

• Corporations—large and small,

• Not-for-profit and social sector organizations,

• Colleges and Universities,

• Domestic and international ministries,

• Secondary school systems, and more.

Our Commitment

Tirelessly and Diligently Lead You through our deliberate, systematic, and proven process to select high impact leaders who fit your team.

Passion is what we are all about. Building great leadership teams is a passionate business. We love what we do, and we are told that we are good at it (see what others say).

Dalton Group LLC is a boutique search firm that specializes in retained search work across most industries and most functional executive roles. Our clients are typically Boards or C-level executives who have need for adding quality leaders to their teams.

While we are generalists, we have developed a strong presence in the Christian nonprofit world with more than 50 leading ministries as clients.

Ask our clients. Ask our candidates. Our forte is leaders and leadership and helping build great leadership teams, and we love it.

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Global CEO Search
...Thanks to your efforts we not only found a Global CEO..., but the resulting merger of IBS and STL has positioned our organization to literally wrap our arms around the globe... Your strategic contacts gained over many years helped make this possible...

Mike Richards, Board Chairman

Prison Fellowship
...[Dalton Group] helped us significantly in building our leadership team at Prison Fellowship. [Their] work is critical to what is our most important resource: people.

Chuck Colson, Founder

National Institute for Learning Development
...Because you assessed the culture of our organization so well you were able to discern who would be a good fit. You were right—he is a spectacular fit...

Kathy Hopkins, Chief Executive

General Counsel, Fisher Scientific
I have had extensive experience working in senior management in both corporate and not for profit institutions. During that time I have been on both sides of the recruiting process... Bret's combination of professionalism, integrity, experience and deep insight is a unique asset and invaluable tool...

Successful CEO Candidate

Prison Fellowship
I want to thank you for your support throughout this search process. From the beginning, you were willing to take a risk on a fellow academy grad...

Admiral Curt Kemp, USNA '72, Successful COO candidate

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Growth almost 10% on Foundation investments
June 4, 2008
From Chronicle of Philanthropy: Despite a slowing economy, American foundations reported an average annual return on investments of 9.9 percent for 2007, a rate that was down from the year before but higher than the average of what foundations said they had hoped to achieve, according to a report by the Commonfund Institute scheduled for release today. Click title to read on...

Young staffers seek to improve the Nonprofit work force
May 16, 2008
From Chronicle of Philanthropy: As nonprofit groups increasingly compete with business and government employers to attract young workers, many people in their 20s and 30s are pressing charities to improve salaries, offer greater opportunities for career development, and do more to promote the diversity of their work forces. Read more by clicking the title above...

Universities Try to Serve a Generation of Those Who Seek to Do Good
April 4, 2008
According to an article in today's The Chronicle of Higher Education,: The young adults choosing careers today watched as the Twin Towers fell, as Katrina swept onto land, and as the Asian tsunami left devastation in its path... Those same young adults — many of them college students — have seen nonprofit organizations step in to help during times of turmoil. Combine that with service-learning requirements and a rise in volunteerism during high school, an extraordinary increase in the number of charities created over the past two decades, and the anticipated retirement of baby-boomer nonprofit executives, and it adds up to high demand for undergraduate programs in nonprofit management. Read more by clicking on the title above.

05.14.08
Drucker on Leadership: 3 unique traits & a one word definition
by Elizabeth Haas Edersheime Through her interviews and correspondence with Peter Drucker, Ms Haas Edersheim has provided several insightful contributions to the Drucker legacy. This piece from last summer is one such item. Click the title above to read more...

04.02.08
Next Generation Leaders Speak Out
A new report from the researchers at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services explores the ongoing discussion about a potential leadership shortfall...

- Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA)(current)

- WorldVENTURE (current)

- Walk thru the Bible (current)

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