Our Team

SGI's greatest asset is its people, supported by the best technology in the executive search industry.



Dave A. Johnson Email Dave  

Dave Johnson, founder of SGI and Executive Search International (ESI), Inc., has over 25 years of business management experience. He founded his premier executive search firm over a decade ago after recognizing the growing need for a search firm based on a foundation of integrity and long-term mutually beneficial relationships. Dave personally specializes in senior level executive search, new venture development and private funding assistance. As a consultant in the executive search industry, Dave confers to leaders in the Telecom and related IT industries, keeping current with the hottest technologies, executive career trends and entrepreneurial opportunities.

Prior to founding SGI, Dave held regional operating responsibility and was a Senior Management Consultant with highly regarded executive search firms including Management Recruiters International, Robert Half International (Accountemps & OfficeTeam), and Westaff. Dave also spent ten years in multi-unit retail management with a specialty retail division of May Department Stores Company.

Dave also co-founded and is general managing partner of "C-Level Entrepreneurial Partners, after recognizing the need to serve industry with a new breed of consultancy. Dave led the effort to recruit some of the most respected C-Level executives in industry. C-Level Partners represent subject matter experts (SME) in all phases of business from start-up to mature organizations. Partners were selected for their management/leadership style, company cultural fit and disciplines in which they served. C-level Partners serves its clients and portfolio companies as a "full-service provider of business solutions".


Tim Ward  Email Tim

Communication & Leadership - Coach, Speaker & Consultant


Tim acquired, from his parents, a deep sense of family values and personal integrity. He believes in people and strives to help others grow individually in order to develop to their potential. This creates an environment for strong, healthy, high performing and productive organizations.

Tim coaches people world wide to greater levels of performance, helping them to implement
communication and leadership principles into their daily lives. The result of this process is the development of individual strengths and management of weaknesses, both professionally and personally.

Tim is a qualified and experienced human behavioral consultant associated with Target Training
International Performance Systems, Scottsdale, Arizona (ttisuccess.com) and Personality Insights, Atlanta, Georgia (personality-insights.com). Effective Life Management has attracted clients to include, Hecla Mining, Idaho State Police, Panhandle State Bank, The McGregor Company, Mr. Rooter, Foundation Northwest, Cogentrix (Rathdrum Power LLC), Spirit Lake Fire Department, Vera Water & Power, Critical Power Exchange, Spokesman Review, Spokane Housing Authority and Litehouse Foods, Inc., as well as other notable organizations.

Tim is an active member of the Inland Northwest Society of Consulting Professionals (INSCP.com),
Toastmasters, and American Entrepreneurs Association. He has served as an adjunct instructor of communication and leadership at Gonzaga University School of Business.

Tim lives in Post Falls, Idaho. He has been married to his wife, Barb, for 31 years and has three sons:
Stephen, Alex, and Casey.