Q4 2015 A Message from Keith Pearson, President & CEO On the economic front, things are looking up here in America. The stock market had a volatile year, yet pulled out of the downward slump with a powerful recovery. The job market is bouncing back, unemployment is down, consumer confidence is rising, new homes are under construction, small […]
Adding Value at the Top: New Gatekeepers to the CEO Suite. Featuring Renee Arrington, Judy Stubbs and Lisa Thompson of Pearson Partners International. A distinguished group of women in executive search now control access to some of the most important corporate positions around the world. It is likely that you will be hearing about all of these women in the coming years. Here’s a sampling of chief executive placements brought […]
A recent BlueSteps Executive Career Insider TweetChat featuring Pearson Partners’ VP Stephen Konstans and our team. [View the story “Executive Search and Your Financial Services Career” on Storify]
When a global membership organization needed two new and uniquely qualified chief operating officers within a three-year period, it turned to the same, proven executive talent resource both times: Pearson Partners International. Dallas-based Meeting Professionals International (MPI) is the largest global meeting and event industry association, with approximately 18,500 members belonging to more than 80 chapters and clubs in 22 countries. Having successfully employed Pearson Partners International to fill its […]
Q3 2015 A Message from Keith Pearson, President & CEO We founded Pearson Partners International 14 years ago as a retained executive search firm serving the portfolio leadership needs of the leveraged buyout and private equity community. Today, we proudly serve clients in every industry, securing top talent for virtually every senior management function from the director level […]
Organizations that build multicultural competencies can achieve better business results, according to Debjani Biswas, consultant, speaker and author. At the June 9 Pearson Partners HR Roundtable, a bimonthly series for senior corporate human resources executives in the North Texas area, Biswas talked about her personal career journey as a woman of Indian heritage who entered the male-dominated profession of engineering. Drawing on her knowledge and experiences, Biswas helped HR professionals […]
On Wall Street, the Dow-Jones average loses 1,000 points before making a rebound. Large companies are ramping up their cyber-security teams after several notable data hacks. In China, an economic slowdown has turned a market opportunity for many U.S. companies into a potential challenge. Across the world, droughts, floods and tropical storms—not to mention sociopolitical strife—have affected business operations recently. Clearly, we live in a time of great uncertainty, without a […]
When a private equity (“PE”) firm acquires a company, it does so with aggressive growth in mind. Growth happens through change, and successful change depends upon a strong partnership between the PE operations team and the management of the company it backs. Pearson Partners’ Q3 2015 Spotlight SeriesSM breakfast discussed how private equity firms and the management teams they work with build healthy partnerships. Our esteemed panel members included: Chris […]
Pearson Partners Advocate: Deborah Sawyer Pearson Partners believes in giving back to the community, and we encourage our team members to be involved in charitable and civic organizations. Deborah Sawyer, our vice president, serves on the board of directors and chairs the nominating committee for Tech Titans (formerly called Metroplex Technology Business Council). In our Q2 2014 Searchlight newsletter, we spoke with Deborah about her passion for the organization. We […]
A recent BlueSteps Executive Career Insider TweetChat featuring Pearson Partners’ CEO Keith Pearson and our team. [View the story “Executive Search & Boards of Directors” on Storify]
