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Transform Your Business with Research-Driven Solutions

Every direct selling company seeks answers from time to time — how to improve your field’s experience, understand changing consumer expectations, demonstrate economic and social impact, navigate emerging challenges, and prepare for what’s next.

DSEF connects companies with leading academic researchers who bring fresh perspectives, rigorous analysis, and independent expertise to respond to business needs.

Why Partner?

Working with academic researchers can help your company:

  • Gain objective insights that inform decision-making.
  • Explore new ideas that drive innovation and long-term growth.
  • Solve complex business challenges.
  • Build credible research that strengthens understanding of the direct selling business model.

The best partnerships begin with a challenge worth solving.

Maximize your team’s capabilities by collaborating with faculty, graduate students, and university research centers on projects that matter most to your business.

Contact DSEF’s Senior Director of Academic Partnerships to learn more about our research partnership opportunities.

DSEF Academic Engagement

Complete a brief survey to help us identify academic or university connections companywide.

This survey will help us learn more about:

  • The various partnerships each department has with a professor, college or university.
  • The existing connections that our employees may have with a university.
  • How our team can better support or align with these relationships.

Please provide us with the following contact information:

Do you or your department have an ongoing professional partnership or personal relationship with a university, college professor, program or department?