Intellect, Curiosity and Grit.

This week we welcome four new Dezzies to further build out our team to meet the moment. Impactful client work is objective 1, 2 and 3 for Team Dez but when we need to add staff, it’s an all hands-on deck affair.

Our culture is special, our approach to our work is unique and what we’re looking for in potential colleagues is equal parts intellect, curiosity and grit.

On day one of a new client engagement, we will never be smarter than our client regarding the intricacies of their business and the challenges they face in the marketplace. Clients generally come to us for help in addressing a problem they can’t solve on their own. They look to us to:

📌 Learn quickly. What is your widget? How do you build your widget? Who loves your widget? Who hates it? Who is making a better widget? To be an efficient and effective consultant, we need to learn comprehensively and ask the right questions.

📌 Think logically. High stakes corporate strategy and marketplace defense is never linear. Every variable changes the decision-making calculus. Anticipation and effective scenario planning are not skills that are taught in a classroom, they are intrinsic skills honed by experience.

📌Compete to win. A 50 percent increase in social media engagement is useless if the government puts you out of business a week later. We are laser-focused on impacting the ultimate outcome. There are no champagne toasts when we complete a successful deliverable for a client; we’re immediately on to the next thing.

Intellect, curiosity and grit not only speak to our recruitment strategy, but to our culture. When clients or partners work with our team, they’ll see very different educational, geographic, and work experience. The common thread is continually curious, dogged strategists, who are determined to win.

If we could do so without betraying client confidences, we would love to live stream one of our internal brainstorming sessions. A room buzzing with big ideas, and a unique competitive spirit – we’re not competing with each other, but rather on behalf of our clients to solve their complex problems in the marketplace. It’s invigorating.

This isn’t to say that we don’t value specific skillsets. Maggie Johnston brings a bevy of experience helping large corporations scale, restructure, or become more efficient. David Manitsky studied film at USC and creates killer content for fun. Nathaniel Beach put in thousands of hours and miles on his car electing political candidates and serving constituents. Helen Taylor has creative and digital media chops and knack for fostering meaningful relationships with online influencers.

These skills will benefit the work we do for our clients on day one (today!), but they’re not why we brought them aboard. They’re here because they want to learn, they want to work, and they want to win.

Welcome to our ever-curious crew!