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 forté is leaders and leadership and helping build great leadership teams, and we love it.

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Scottsdale Christian Academy
...there is no doubt that [our new Head of School] is God’s man for this time at SCA!!

Chairman of the Board

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

Prison Fellowship, Founder

Tom Lowell
To say that we are excited would be an understatement...

Trans World Radio, Chairman of the Board

Years later...
...Know that your conversations with me have been pivot points on my life, directing me toward years of fulfilling and meaningful work for the Kingdom...

A selected CEO candidate

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Titles don't matter - myth or fact?
February 1, 2010
In the world where we operate, performance is key. Or so we thought. This year's compensation study from The NonProfit Times seems to imply that titles really do matter. The results are quite extreme - certainly other factors play a role, but when there's a 46% difference in compensation between those with title of CEO vs Exec Dir, our attention is piqued. Read on by clicking title above...

Nonprofit executive sabbaticals improve organizational capacity
January 20, 2010
According to a recent study: Sabbaticals for nonprofit leaders can be a relatively inexpensive but highly productive capacity-building tool that yields measurable results... Click title above for more...

Philanthropy in 2020
January 14, 2010
From The Chronicle of Philanthropy, five major trends and more in a new report. Some nonprofit leaders and futurists are looking beyond the immediate concerns of the bad economy to ponder what the charity world will look like in the next 10 years... Click title to read on...

02.08.10
Back to Basics
So often in this day and age we are looking for the newest and latest craze, buzz word, whatever. In reality, King Solomon was right when he said there is nothing new under the sun. Thus, we often recommend classic books on leadership and organizations. Here's some real basics: George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. Read on by clicking title...

01.04.10
WSJ: A Salute to West Point
One of the greatest honors I have is sitting on the Board for the West Point alumni association. Bill McGurn's editorial in today's Wall Street Journal explains part of the reason I feel that way. Click title to read the piece...

- Evangelical Christian School (Current)

- Timothy Christian School (Just completed)

- Trans World Radio (TWR) (Completed - click to see press release)

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