{"id":1179,"date":"2021-09-09T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/consultant\/dwain-celistan\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:44:16","slug":"dwain-celistan","status":"publish","type":"consultant","link":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/consultant\/dwain-celistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwain Celistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block-consultant-detail alignfull \">\n    <div class=\"consultant-hero\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n                            <div class=\"img\"\n                     style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Celistan_Dwain_Web-970x700.jpg);\"><\/div>\n                        <section class=\"copy\">\n                <h1>Dwain Celistan<\/h1>\n\n                                    <p class=\"title\">Managing Partner, Inclusive Leadership Practice<\/p>\n                                <ul class=\"offices\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/office\/chicago\/\">Chicago<\/a><\/li><\/ul>                                    <p>Dwain serves as Managing Partner and Leader of the Global Inclusive Leadership Practice for DHR. He has conducted searches for senior leaders across various firms and industries, and over 70% of his placements are diverse candidates.<\/p>\n                            <\/section>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"wrapper\">\n        <section class=\"contact\">\n            <h2>Dwain Celistan<\/h2>\n\n                            <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:dcelistan@dhrglobal.com\">dcelistan@dhrglobal.com<\/a>\n            \n                            <a class=\"tel\" href=\"tel:+1 312 782 1581\">+1 312 782 1581<\/a>\n            \n                            <div class=\"social\">\n                    <p>Let&#8217;s Connect<\/p>\n\n                                            <a class=\"icon-linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/celistan\/\"><span\n                                    class=\"screen-reader-text\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a>\n                    \n                    \n                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n        <section class=\"main\">\n            <div class=\"copy\">\n                <h2>Experience<\/h2>\n                <p>His clients have included over 25 Fortune 500 corporations, many family-owned, private equity-backed firms, and universities. His consultative approach and significant corporate leadership experience have helped clients refine their position specifications and clearly define the \u201cright\u201d candidate. DHR has recognized Dwain as a top performer every year since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Dwain has coached leaders to help them realize their career goals and improve their productivity. As part of this work, he has published four books, including \u201cRecruiter\u2019s Guide to Hiring Diverse Leaders\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re Hired! Actions to Get and Keep the Job of Your Dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to recruiting, he held senior marketing, sales, and general management positions in the U.S. and U.K. for Fortune 500 firms, including Procter &amp; Gamble, Nestl\u00e9, and Alcoa. He led Marketing and Sales departments with teams of over 100 professionals and owned budgets of $100M for $1B divisions. He has saved declining businesses and accelerated their growth in multiple roles.<\/p>\n<p>Dwain graduated from Loyola University and holds a Master of Business Administration from Atlanta University. He has also done postgraduate work at Cornell and Stanford Universities. He lives with his wife in Orlando, Florida, and has two adult daughters.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n\n            <aside>\n                                <h2>Expertise<\/h2>\n                <ul>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/function\/inclusive-leadership\/\">Inclusive Leadership<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/consumer-retail\/\">Consumer &#038; Retail<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/industrial\/\">Industrial<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/?post_type=capability&#038;p=2056\">Diversity, Equity &#038; Inclusion<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/capability\/executive-search\/\">Executive Search<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/consumer-retail\/retail-luxury\/\">Retail &#038; Luxury<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/consumer-retail\/beauty-industry-executive-search-recruiters\/\">Beauty<\/a><\/li>\n                                                <\/aside>\n        <\/section>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"block-testimonial-client has-dark-blue-background-color alignfull alignfull\">\n\t<div class=\"maybe-wrapper\">\n\t\t<div class=\"left\">\n\t\t\t<h2>In the words of clients<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"right\">\n        \t\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cWe are in a service business and success in my view ultimately comes down to management talent.&nbsp;Dwain has played a huge role in helping us strengthen our management team as well as being a great partner in helping us make significant progress with Diversity.\u201d<\/p><cite>Paul Ostland<br>President, First Student<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"block-insights-featured alignfull\">\n        <div class=\"maybe-wrapper\">\n\n                            <h2 class=\"is-style-underlined\">Inclusive Leadership Insights<\/h2>\n            \n            <div class=\"article-grid\">\n\n                \n                    <article id=\"post-6294\" class=\"post-6294 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-diversity tag-chief-information-officer tag-chief-people-officer tag-client-story tag-diversity tag-executive-search tag-general-counsel insights_type-client-story\" >\n    <a class=\"inner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/insights\/client-story-diversity-across-functional-leads\/\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iStock-1082416560-website-363x222.jpg);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"info\">\n            <h3>Client Story: Diversity Across Functional Leads<\/h3>\n\t\t\t                <footer class=\"topic\">Client Story<\/footer>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article><article id=\"post-8396\" class=\"post-8396 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-diversity tag-client-story tag-diversity tag-executive-search insights_type-client-story\" >\n    <a class=\"inner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/insights\/client-story-diversity-in-business-services\/\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/iStock-1149825492-website-363x222.jpg);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"info\">\n            <h3>Client Story: Diversity in Business Services<\/h3>\n\t\t\t                <footer class=\"topic\">Client Story<\/footer>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article><article id=\"post-32729\" class=\"post-32729 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-diversity category-organizational-development insights_type-article\" >\n    <a class=\"inner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/insights\/strategic-talent-investment-navigating-the-buy-vs-build-dilemma\/\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Buy-versus-Build-363x222.jpg);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"info\">\n            <h3>Strategic Talent Investment: Navigating the Buy vs Build Dilemma<\/h3>\n\t\t\t                <footer class=\"topic\">Article<\/footer>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article><article id=\"post-1540\" class=\"post-1540 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-board-ceo category-diversity category-functions category-insights tag-diversity tag-mid-cap insights_type-article\" >\n    <a class=\"inner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/insights\/board-diversity-now-its-turn-mid-caps\/\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/board-diversity.png);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"info\">\n            <h3>Board Diversity: Now it\u2019s the Turn of Mid-Caps<\/h3>\n\t\t\t                <footer class=\"topic\">Article<\/footer>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    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