Overview
Daversa Partners is technology’s premier executive search firm that builds the leadership teams for growth and venture-backed companies. Our global footprint spans 2 continents and eight offices, giving our high-performance teams visibility into the entirety of the market. We are dedicated to developing meaningful relationships with entrepreneurs, executives, and investors across consumer and enterprise businesses.
Supernova Award Category
Future of Work: Employee Experience
The Problem
In today's market, with a recession looming and the previously pervasive Great Resignation mentality, curating a positive and effective employee experience is vital to the health of an organization. Millenials and Gen Z employees are quick to assess a company's benefits, pay, and culture and are making employment decisions based on these factors more than ever. Over 30 years, Daversa Partners has worked to ensure the employee experience is top of the line. For most of its tenure, the organization was comprised of executive recruiters. Over the past few years, leadership recognized the importance of implementing operational departments that could solve the 'problem' of ensuring that Daversa Partners employees had the full employee experience.
The Solution
Following this realization, Daversa Partners and its leadership team strategized and implemented initiaitves, departments, and infrastructure to ensure the highest quality, holistic employee experience for all employees who walked through the Daversa doors. Now, the company has a People Operations Team led by an experienced Chief People Officer, a Finance Team led by a veteran CFO, and Marketing and Communications Team led by a tenured VP. The organization has also implemented incredibly competetive benefits including fertility benefits, health and dental coverage, unlimited PTO, dog-friendly offices, company-wide events and holidays, and Employee Resource Groups for women, the LGBTQ+ community, and POC.
The results
Because of this strategic and measured business strategy, Daversa Partners was named on Forbes 2022 Best Executive Recruiting Firms and received the notable and competetive Great Place to Work Certification for 2022 -- a feat that's accomplished through employee participation via survey.
Metrics
According to the results of the Great Place to Work survey, 98% of Daversa Partners employees consider their workplace a 'great place to work' as compared with the industry average of 57% employee satisfaction.
The Technology
Technology used to obtain these results include the implementation of systemetized feedback and performance platforms like Lattice, the regular use of employee communication platforms like Slack and Workplace to regularly communicate upcoming initiatives like company-wide days off, team outings, learning and development opportunities, and educational/awareness messaging regarding important cultural happenings like Juneteenth, Black History Month, and Mental Health Awareness Month.
Disruptive Factor
Other executive recruiting firms in the space do not compare to the benefits and culture that Daversa Partners offers -- there is a clear differentiating factor and it's what draws clients to come back again and again to Daversa. Our genuine and authentic respect for our brand and the people we work with on a daily basis is tangible and palpable; the game-changing nature of our processes are disrupting the executive search space.
Shining Moment
Daversa Partners is most proud of its ability to adapt, iterate, and improve over 30 years in the industry, completely changing the game for executive search firms and raising the bar for employee experience.