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CXO Thoughts Consulting, LLC is a training and development consultancy based in York, Pennsylvania. CXO provides training and development facilitation, strategic planning, management consulting, and other professional support services to clients in private industry, not-for-profits, and government agencies. Representative industries include telecommunications, wireless, software, information technology, financial services, new media, and professional services. Sample case studies include: Assisting a government agency with the development of in-house training programs for senior staff members in the area of emotional Intelligence, 360 Degree Evaluation, Confict Resolution, Procurement, Project Management, Team Building, Innovation Development, and Supporting Supervisors. Reduce average annual review ranking by 30%; increased staff turnover to over 3% from less than 1%, and increased overall workflow by more than 30%; Developing a question development software program for use by a government agency to generate questions for employee interviews and support of the hiring process. Reduced prepartion time by 40%; Developing a two phase sexual harassment training seminar for government agency supervisors and employees to maximize agency risk management, reduce employee litigation. Reduced employee litigation by 50%; Assisting a new media company in writing its business plan, structuring its offering documents and organizing its client list to assist in completing an A round of institutional investment. Helped raise over $2,000,000 in institutional venture captial; Developing a strategic plan, operation documents, organizational structure and funding plan to launch a competitive technology trade association that grew to over 300 member companies and generated an operating budget of nearly $650,000 in only 18 months; Organized and facilitated the development of a regional early stage venture conference for start-up companies, angel and early stage investors. This is currently a major capital event, sponsored by the largest capital players in the region, and has resulted in over 30 companies receiving funding. The early stage conference is now in its 8th year; Leading the strategic planning effort of an international not-for-profit that resulted in the reorganization of its marketing and sales support process, the development of a revised out reach strategy, and ultimately led to the organization’s winning two substantial capacity enhancing federal grants worth several million dollars; Led, developed, and implemented a top to bottom transformation of a government agency generating nearly $300M in sales and $75M in contribution to the general fund of a state; tripled the compound average growth rate of revenues; reduced and restructured the staff; conceptualized and implemented an overhaul of the enterprise architecture and data platforms to engineer better decision-making. Produced three successive years of record revenue; Reviewed the venture capital portfolio of a public-private partnerships and recommended the workout and solutions of the portfolio resulting in recover of over 50% of the principal involved and provided liquidity for new projects; and Developed and implemented a strategic planning process for a not-for-profit political organization that resulted in a 20% increase in membership dues; helped to raise over $600,000 in campaign contributions, improved programming, and meeting attendance. Also worked with this group to develop an alternative venture capital fund involving patient capital and brown-field remediation. The work secured a series of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation in excess of $150,000. |










