XCEO, Inc.: Holistic Leadership Development and Talent Management

In most enterprises across various industry verticals, there is a prevalent age gap between the employees and board members. There is also a shortage of leadership skills and relevant experiences that hurdle employees towards taking responsibilities as top-order executives. The President & CEO of California based XCEO, Inc., Dr. Curtis J. Crawford—an expert in leadership development and recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Directors award—observes that most organizations do not have a strategic succession plan in place for their high-potential employees and lack proper means to harness their dexterity and increase talent retention. Addressing these shortcomings, XCEO’s offerings not only create a consolidated pipeline for mentoring employees to become visionary leaders but also help them to improve their adeptness and enhance their skills. “The idea of our talent management platform came from the identified gap between top-level executives and the rest of the employees within an organization,” says Anthony Olszewski, Manager of Executive Succession Products and Services at XCEO.

XCEO’s unique offering, the LinXsus® Pro Talent Management Platform™, is both management and employee-centric. It facilitates a singular approach toward leadership and allows employees to work on their leadership potential, developing their skills to increase readiness for moving up the professional ladder. The focal aspect of the Platform is the Business Attributes, Skills and Experiences Analysis (BASEdna™) which enables organizations to carry out an extensive analysis of their employees with 23 skill-based and 23 experience-based questions that help calibrate and catalog the current inventory of leadership qualifications and readiness levels of employees to reach top-level executive positions. It also ensures that employees are developed according to their organization’s needs and helps create a pipeline for candidate succession based on each executive level position in their organization. The analysis assists management in providing a clear view of potential industry leaders, assessing their skills and experiences, and working towards improving their performance to reach the required readiness level. The company aligns personal leadership development with their clients’ executive succession planning process, to create leaders that are readily qualified and validated for executive level positions.