LeadershipNOW: America's Search for the Most Qualified US Presidential Candidate

Top executive search consultant and transformational leadership expert Jeff Christian applies executive leadership search methods for finding a strong alternative to Hillary

CLEVELAND, March 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It would be hard to embrace any of the candidates in our last few presidential elections to even run a $20 Million company. If we don't elect better leaders we will completely lose our position as a leading country.

Famed executive search consultant, transformation CEO and leadership expert, Jeff Christian, who conducted HP's search for a new CEO, the largest executive search in history, has now set his sights higher, unveiling today his intention to use the best search technologies used in industry, non-profits, and other organizations to identify the most exceptional leaders for the role of President of the United States through a new organization called LeadershipNOW.

Jeff Christian, Transformational CEO

At age 23, Jeff Christian founded Christian and Timbers, the most rapidly growing executive search firm from 1980s through 2000s. According to Dr. Tom Janz, who worked with Jeff as a coach in 2014 and 2015, "Jeff Christian is a transformational CEO, having built Christian and Timbers into the clear market leader in its space, one of the strongest indicators of a transformational CEO. He is credited for transforming the sleepy executive search industry, a rolodex business, into an information knowledge based powerhouse." Christian personally led searches which filled top leadership roles and boards of Silicon Valley's most admired corporations including HP, Cisco System and Apple. He not only found the top talent, he helped it succeed, launching two venture capital companies which landed him on the Forbes Midas list for 5 years as a top deal maker. Christian authored "The Headhunter's Edge", a Random House book where he first introduced the concepts of "Transformational Leadership" and "Talent Centric Companies". His most recent company, RevenueNOW, the only company that ensures rapid revenue acceleration, applies transformational components to help America's entrepreneurs transform their businesses. LeadershipNOW applies these technologies to the political selection process for the first time.

"As far as challenging our thinking, Jeff will do that. As we were putting together the profile for the CEO search that is currently underway, instead of just following the specs, Jeff thought about them, rewrote them and came back to us and said, 'We ought to be more open in this area.' He really pushes and hauls the definition before he gets started."

- Lew Platt, former CEO Hewlett-Packard

America's Search for the next President

Christian has long dreamed of applying the most advanced science of executive search to selecting U.S. Presidential candidates. "America's top corporations use the best of executive search science, which includes creation of a detailed position profile that realistically defines qualities required to be the most effective president. These profiles will be developed by a citizens selection committee drawn from America's most trusted business, non-profit and academics thought leaders with direct input from all Americans though the LeadershipNOW website. Christian criticizes the old style politics: "America's political parties use methods that have hardly changed since the days when smoke filled room deal makers selected presidential candidates. America's voters deserve the best candidates from each party and for every office, and we need a modern selection system for identifying and assessing them. We have created LeadershipNOW to make sure Americans get a choice between strong leaders."

Scientific Leadership Search will Enable More Informed Choices

Jeff Christian, the top expert on Transformational Leadership, and Dr. Tom Janz, who wrote the definitive book on behavioral interviewing and leadership assessment, have come together to develop an assessment tool and process to identify the very best transformational political leaders. Christian explains "traditional back room political deal making doesn't select for those qualities that make for effective government executives and legislators. By assessing candidates and publicly sharing their results, the result for America should be that the most qualified candidates who might get otherwise be overlooked might just be discovered for the gems they are. Using scientific search techniques, everyone will know who really stacks up and what their strengths and weaknesses are."

Candidates Take Notice

"It's a double edged sword, because scientific search methodologies and assessment can also pinpoint hidden weaknesses. But the better a leader the candidate is, the less their risk and the more they have to gain by this transparency." Christian revealed. Some Republican candidates have taken notice and indicated their willingness to go under the LeadershipNOW microscope.

"Right now, Hillary is the one name that people know. A search is all about discovering what you don't know, so every other candidate, Republican or Democrat, has the opportunity to become the new front runner, because they will have the strongest emotional link with the voters. So the first candidate courageous enough to follow this initiative has to be taken seriously," said one political analyst.

Leadership Search technology for local, state and other federal offices as well.

While LeadershipNow is currently developing Presidential position profiles, assessments and recruiting independent governance councils to guide the evaluation processes, it plans to offer similar services for all races on a non-partisan basis. Christian is passionate in his commitment to greater public accountability for all offices, "For every office from village major, to governor or senator, voters deserve to know whether candidates have the leadership qualities the desire. LeadershipNow will measure them and give them the information they need to make the most informed choices about which candidates to give their donations and votes to." Campaigns can even use these services to evaluate their own internal leadership, and after the election to assess possible cabinet and staff positions, so candidates can assure the voters that their staff are equally well qualified and worthy of trust.

LeadershipNOW is a new organization that is draws on the talent and technologies of Christian's most recent venture, RevenueNOW, a consulting organization which merges capabilities of top executive recruiting, private equity, and brand marketing firms. The founding leadership of RevenueNow includes Jeff Christian, Dr. Janz and Scott McGregor.

Jeff Christian is the CEO and founder of the search firm Christian and Timbers and two venture funds, who transformed the Executive Search industry. He is also as the author of The Headhunter's Edge.

Dr. Tom Janz literally wrote the book on behavioral leadership Assessment: Behavior Description Interviewing.

Scott McGregor is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-inventor of Web Conferencing and Prescient Agents predictive analytics technologies, technologies that have changed the lives of over one billion individuals around the world.

Contact:
Jeff Christian
LeadershipNow
216 543 4606