The Alignment Engagement
Most athletic departments focus on hiring. Peak Scouts helps solve the organizational challenges behind it. We stay in the seat, auditing structure, spend, and culture, then lining all three up around what your leaders actually need to win.
Three Ways We Help
Where does your department need strength?
Start with the problem you're facing. We'll take it from there.
Consulting · Our Main Engagement
Alignment Consulting
We audit structure, spend, and culture, then line all three up around what your leaders actually need to win.
Best when
Your AD, CFO, and leadership are each solving a different problem.
Search & Staffing
Executive Search
A cycle, not a transaction. We know the talent before the job opens, and we stay involved long after the offer is signed.
Best when
A critical seat is open, or about to be.
Education
Workshops & Education
Keynotes and hands-on workshops for your campus, conference, or boardroom, led by people who've lived it.
Best when
Your staff needs a shared playbook for what's changing.
The Alignment Engagement
Most consultants leave you with a slide deck. We stay in the seat. We audit your whole organization, hire the talent you're missing, and develop the people you already have, all in one engagement.
90-day retainer
Renewed quarterly, so alignment is maintained.
Hires included
Any hire needed during the engagement, at no added cost.
Led by Dave
Personally, with specialists on your specific issues.
Audit the organization
Structure, spend, and culture. We map every seat, every dollar, and where NIL, the portal, boosters, and agents are pulling from.
Hire the right talent
Where there's a clear gap, we find the leader to fill it, included in the engagement at no additional cost.
Develop your people
Internal development comes first, so the people already in the building grow into the roles you need.
Weeks
Not the usual 60 to 90 days
148
Countries in Our Network
1,000+
Organizations Served
Top 1%
U.S. Talent Firm
OUR METHODOLOGY
The Cultivation Cycle runs through everything we do.
Whether we're filling a seat, realigning a department, or training your staff, it's the same five-stage cycle. We know the talent before the job opens, and we stay involved long after the offer is signed.
Before the hire
Evaluate, Match, Place.
After the hire
Grow, Retain, then the cycle starts again.
Also Available
Beyond the C-suite
Recruitment
Sales, sponsorship, operations, and compliance roles. Post the opening on our Job Board and we'll put it in front of the right candidates.
1:1 advisory for the top 1% of sports leaders
The Razor's Edge
Ongoing private programming with one-on-one advisory time, not a single workshop.
Who's in the Room
Led by Dave. Backed by specialists.
Dave Dagostino leads every engagement personally, with subject matter specialists from decades inside college and pro athletics.
“Dave Dagostino and the Peak Scouts team bring a unique, data-driven approach to the evolving world of college athletics.”
Dave Dagostino, Jr
Managing Director
Gene DeFilippo
Former Boston College AD (1997 to 2012). Led BC’s move to the ACC
J.P. Ricciardi
Former GM, Toronto Blue Jays
Mike Lynch
AVP Athletics, Babson / 2x AD of the Year
Tom Burnett
Former Commissioner, Southland Conference
Tim Fitzpatrick
Former Deputy AD & COO, Brown
Tell us what you're facing.
Give us the short version. We'll point you to the right engagement, even if that's a single conversation.
Dave personally reviews every inquiry within 24 hours.