Ralph Dise
Founder & President
Ralph Dise is founder and president of Dise & Company. Ralph has a life-long interest in developing leaders and helping enterprises succeed. He learned his earliest leadership lessons as a teenager attending a summer military program.
Susan Paley Zak
Vice President Executive Recruiting
In her position as Director of Executive Recruiting at Dise & Company since 2004, Susan Paley Zak leverages her broad network of contacts in business, professional and nonprofit communities to help clients find the right talent for their organizations. Throughout her successful career in human resources, Susan’s signature accomplishment has been to bring an entrepreneurial zeal to whatever she touches.
Mark Gonska
Executive Vice President
Mark Gonska is Executive Vice President at Dise & Company. He helps employers avoid the second most costly mistake they can ever make: retaining employees they should release. Also known as America’s Career Coach, Mark has assisted over 8,000 people moving forward in their careers. He also works with groups on plant closings and job relocation projects nationally and globally.
Susan Brophy
Senior Director, Outplacement and Career Transition
Susan Brophy is a nationally recognized career transition coach, LinkedIn strategist and workforce/higher education development consultant, whose mission and passion is career transition services and advisement to both candidates and employers.
As Senior Career Transition Advisor, Susan guides and coaches management and executive level candidates experiencing career transition and job loss. Susan is a trusted advisor to candidates and is proud to provide solid strategies that lead to successful employment, power networking and career advancement.
Jennifer Otto
Director of Client Services & Corporate Development
Director, Client Services and Corporate Development, Jennifer Otto assists clients in developing their job search. She guides clients through the onboarding process and helps maintain communication. In addition to drafting resumes and cover letters, she provides assistance with search databases as well as technical support.
P. William Marshall
Executive Vice President of Search Practice
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Dori Lieber
Research Director
Dori Lieber has a distinguished record of involvement in nonprofit community activities. Her additional success in corporate and entrepreneurial businesses make her a great fit for the firm, which works at the intersection of those worlds. She has worked in radio sales and marketing in New York City. In 1979, she and her husband Joel established what would soon become a five-store retail chain, where she served as general manager. She later joined Jewish Vocational Services, where she became the Associate Director of Corporate Connection, an executive-recruitment division of a nonprofit agency. The program became self-sustaining within its first year of business, developing crucial non-restricted funding for the agency.
Phyllis Webb
Senior Research & Recruiting Associate
Phyllis Webb brings a track record of success as a senior IT leader. As a long term IT Director at Progressive Insurance, she has been responsible for managing large organizations and has directed the implementation of many large, multi-year, multi-million dollar projects.
John Markt
Executive Vice President
Prior to joining Dise & Company, John co-founded and managed for 20 years Markt & Markworth LLC a retained executive search firm. There they conducted C-level executive, senior management and legal searches on a retained basis for organizations of all sizes, publicly and privately held throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Their search expertise was diverse and included functional practice areas and industries such as: Supply Chain Management, Attorneys/Legal, Engineering/Science and Technology, General Management, High Tech/Nano Manufacturing, Metals Manufacturing, Consumer Products Manufacturing, Finance and Accounting, Sales and Marketing, Human Resources, Management Consulting, Process Improvement/Six Sigma/Quality and International.
Jennifer Markworth
Vice President
Prior to joining Dise & Company, Jennifer co-founded and managed for 20 years Markt & Markworth LLC a retained executive search firm. There they conducted C-level executive, senior management and legal searches on a retained basis for organizations of all sizes, publicly and privately held throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Their search expertise was diverse and included functional practice areas and industries such as: Supply Chain Management, Attorneys/Legal, Engineering/Science and Technology, General Management, High Tech/Nano Manufacturing, Metals Manufacturing, Consumer Products Manufacturing, Finance and Accounting, Sales and Marketing, Human Resources, Management Consulting, Process Improvement/Six Sigma/Quality and International.
Tim Slager
Vice President Business Development
Tim Slager helps organizations attract, develop, and transition talent. He currently serves as Vice President, Client Development at Dise & Company where he interfaces with client companies around the firm’s expertise in executive recruiting, coaching and transition. Tim’s work with global talent management companies began in Chicago on a timeline roughly parallel to Dise & Company’s 1990 Cleveland inception. These parallel timelines intersected, allowing Tim to bring large-scale client delivery experience that complements the quality executive focus for which Dise & Company is known..
Greg Reynolds
Director Emeritus
Greg is an experienced human resources executive who assists clients in recruiting key talent, building organizational bench strength and optimizing workforce performance by enhancing leadership skills. He is skilled in creating outplacement services that meet the needs of both organizations and individuals affected by reductions in force. His clients have ranged from small businesses to Fortune 100 organizations in the public and private sectors. He has deep experience in service, industrial, nonprofit, and technology environments.
