Awards & Recognition Archives - Carpe Diem Global Partners

Carpe Diem Partners Named
“Leadership Advisory Firm of the Year – 2024”

San Francisco / Sarasota – Following an explosive year in growth from innovation, Carpe Diem Global Partners was awarded Advisory Firm of the Year by Manager HR, a print and digital publication focused on human resources (HR) and business management.

“We are thrilled to be recognized again for our innovative services that elevate our client’s leadership capability, end to end” said Jeff DeFazio, Managing Partner.

The firm was chosen after an extensive review of the firm’s blend of new and traditional services focused on building an organization’s leadership capability. Over the last 6 years, Carpe Diem has rapidly expanded its capabilities from pre hire executive recruiting to onboarding, coaching, assessment, team development, workshops, total reward and leadership philosophies, CEO performance reviews, and board development. HR leaders increasingly value Leadership Advisory firms with a wide variety of agile capabilities and resources.

Firm of the Year Award for Leadership Advisory

“It’s the unique blend of skills, experiences, and diversity of thought from our partners and staff that have made this possible”, said Edel Keville, Managing Partner and a key principle in the firm’s Leadership Development practice. Michael Whitehead, Managing Partner, deeply engaged in executive coaching and executive search stated: “Our extensive backgrounds as operators bring broader, more creative thinking to solving a client’s most pressing leadership imperatives”.

The latest set of innovations came from the firm’s new Culture practice, led by Managing Partner, Craig Kamins. “I’m quite excited by how quickly clients have adopted our new diagnostic ‘Culture Screen’. Its recent impact on several CEO’s ability to quickly and objectively understand their organization’s culture underscores the appetite for innovation in our market”.

“Carpe Diem fuels organizational success while holding itself accountable with clear, measurable results. The firm weaves core values of transparency, collaboration, and accountability together with an emphasis on its organizational levers—people, processes, and performance. These are the reasons and evidence that drove our decision to name Carpe Diem Global Partners Leadership Advisory Firm of the Year.”

Manager HR is designed for HR professionals and business managers, providing insights, best practices, and timely news related to HR and organizational management. The magazine, in print and online, reaches over 44,000 qualified readers, including HR professionals and business leaders, aiming to transform their roles from traditional HR functions to strategic business management.

Carpe Diem Global Partners is a Leadership Advisory Firm delivering leadership services to the Board and C-suite.

“For us, the ROI of building an organization’s leadership capability is measured through quality, rigor, speed, and impact. This ethos ensures a meaningful impact on a client’s top and bottom lines, whether monthly or annually”.

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Culture and Change Management Practice Leader, Craig Kamins, joins Leadership Advisory Firm

Craig Kamins, JD, MBA, spanning multiple decades in global consulting companies, Korn Ferry, Gallup, and McKinsey, extends the firm’s leadership advisory services, broadening its ability to help executive leaders navigate culture change.

Leveraging Culture to Enable Organizational Change

Mr. Craig Kamins will serve as the head of the firm’s new Culture and Change Management Practice. Carpe Diem sees this as an area of vital importance to clients as they attempt to navigate through another period of dynamic change.

For a few years, organizations framed their people strategy around their response to COVID. Then they had to deal with the recession, return to work and its aftermath, and now the onslaught of artificial intelligence. Organizations with healthy and supportive cultures are in the best position to weather the storm.

Helping Leaders Properly Assess and Map Culture Change – at Scale

Craig Kamins, JD, MBA

Mr. Kamins has over 25 years of experience partnering with clients assessing, aligning, and executing on culture and change management initiatives in a broad range of sectors including technology, consumer, healthcare, and industrial. This includes companies experiencing significant changes in leadership and organizational structures or facing disruptive changes to the business or operating model.

The Impact of Workforce Management and RTW Policies on Retail Cultures: A Mixed Bag

The retail industry is in the midst of a grand experiment: remote work. While some companies are singing its praises, others are still trying to figure out the tune. The question on everyone’s mind: does remote work benefit the bottom line and company culture?

Retained Executive Search: Top 10 Innovators of 2023

Innovation #1
Quality AND Speed
The Cost of Underperforming Leadership Roles

Innovation #2
Accelerated Onboarding (AOB)

Innovation #3
Fair and Balanced Assessments

Innovation #4
Don’t Hire Recruiters – Former executive leaders with subject-matter expertise

Michael Whitehead Awarded 2023 Most Inspiring Business Leader

HR Tech Outlook Recognizes Carpe Diem Global Partners as Top Talent Management Company

San Francisco, CA
November 7, 2022

HR Tech Outlook is a global print and digital platform focused on reporting technology and service disruption within the HR function. The publication guides CHROs to leverage new technologies and embrace the future by turning the attention to growth, cost reduction and competitive differentiation. The publication evaluated and assessed a broad range of talent management firms before selecting the top 10 most disruptive firms.

Enter Carpe Diem Global Partners—a bespoke, performance-based leadership advisory firm that delivers retained executive search, leadership, team and organizational development. The firm has clearly differentiated itself in its business model, consultants, transparency, accountability, and performance guarantees, especially geared around client needs.

Carpe Diem Global Partners to Donate $10,000 to aid COVID-19 Emergency Response in Partnership with CDC Foundation Emergency Response Fund and Alameda Food Bank

Carpe Diem Partners announced today it is donating to two organizations at the forefront of the Covid-19 fight: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation’s Emergency Response Fund and Alameda Food Bank. The donations, which total $10,000, will go toward caregivers supporting public health during the coronavirus pandemic and children without replacement for school lunches.

“It is inspiring to see the selflessness and courage of those on the frontlines of this unprecedented health crisis,” said Carpe Diem Global Partners Founder and Managing Partner Jeff DeFazio. “We are honored to partner with these organizations and support their efforts to ensure those most impacted by the coronavirus pandemic receive everything they need to remain healthy and safe.” The Alameda Food Bank is one of the largest, most effective and well-run food oriented nonprofits we know about actively providing school lunches. “We wanted to assist the most vulnerable, families and children.”