The DBI2 Story
How did we get here?
I grew up with a recruiter. My father started his own recruiting firm “Careers Unlimited” in a glorious time called the 70’s and I spent a fair amount of my holiday and summertime visits with him in his office, or sitting in on client lunches around Kansas City. By osmosis I learned this business listening to his conversations with clients and candidates, helping send resumes by fax and watching him reformat candidate resumes on the office typewriter on his signature green paper and dark green letterhead.
After graduating from The University of Kansas, I started a career in sales, at first selling copiers and then pagers just as the first cell phones were hitting the market. I quickly found myself contributing more to finding new sales talent for the office instead of cold calling and started what has evolved into a 30 year career focused on Talent Acquisition.
In that time I have worked in multiple industries, from Telecom to Manufacturing, Engineering, Construction, FinTech and Education Technology, from Enterprise to Startups, where I have really focused the past 11 years, and supported the hiring of talent in virtually every skillset segment from IT to Finance to Sales and Business Operations, from entry level to the C-Suite.
I have spoken with 10’s of 1000’s of people and had the absolute pleasure of working with amazing humans. I have learned from every interaction and have come away with some cardinal lessons learned about growing companies, leadership, the candidate experience and humans in general. I have failed far more often than I have succeeded, continue to learn every day, and truly enjoy where this career path has led me.
Today, DBI2 offers talent acquisition and organizational evolution guidance and solutions to “growth stage” companies. I define “growth stage” as big enough to have revenue and momentum, recognizing their need to evolve and grow the team, but struggling with the strategy and execution to do so. I will share more about the model and these cardinal lessons learned in subsequent posts.
This blog is intended to tell those stories, provide some support, guidance and advice on all sides of the talent acquisition and organizational evolution matrix, and offer some insight and opinion…it won’t all will be popular, but it will all be authentic.