Our search for an outstanding person to become our Xinfu FTSE100 CEO confidant apprentice is the “featured Escape” on www.escapethecity.org. If you’re interested in this special role, email us at hugh@xinfu.com.
The full details are:
Xinfu FTSE100 CEO confidant apprentice
Fastest route to being the business & personal confidant of the best CEOs of the biggest companies in the world
Opportunity for an outstanding individual to train to become personal confidant on business & personal leadership of the world’s best CEOs. Join global start-up finding a better way for CEOs to lead corporations for greater results and to make them more inspiring & fulfilling places to be.
Location: London, UK (medium term potential for China and global locations)
Salary: Near term competitive with strategy houses in line with your experience, medium term very high potential earnings
The Organisation & The Role
Xinfu are the world’s first global CEO confidants.
We work with top CEOs from around the world to build a new generation of businesses that win in the right way. We are proud to be working as CEO confidants to over a dozen FTSE100 CEOs and boards from offices in London and Beijing.
We are risk takers and a super growth young business. Two years in, we are entrepreneurial to our core and lead and organise ourselves in a radically different way to traditional “advisory” firms.
We are doers and confidants, not advisors. We are actively shaping the CEO agenda globally with books, events, on- and offline media, speaking platforms and a developing global CEO community.
Our ambition is to work with a small number of global clients to generate extraordinary returns for their owners and create exceptional environments where talented people can fulfil themselves. We love making a shift in CEO, top team and company-wide performance by working the whole CEO agenda. Where conventional advisors have a narrow focus, we address the whole CEO agenda (business performance and leadership + personal performance and leadership) by integrating a unique team of exceptional global experts.
We want Xinfu to be a home for exceptional people who work in fellowship with each other while they have an extraordinary impact on client CEOs, businesses and the wider CEO agenda.
CEO confidant apprentice
This is a unique, one-time opportunity for an exceptionally talented individual to train to become the personal confidant on business and personal leadership of the world’s
best CEOs.
You will work on all aspects of building Xinfu including:
- Client delivery: delivering and supporting confidant programmes and events for our CEO and board clients
- Client sales: really getting under the skin of new client opportunities
- Brand and thinking: developing our books, TV programmes, media articles and speaking appearances
- CEO hub/www: help us build the world’s first global CEO online hub and real world community
- Xinfu: building out Xinfu across the world (branding, finances, operations, hiring etc).
The apprenticeship could take anything up to 10 to 15 years but by the end of it the apprentice will be able personally to support FTSE100 and Fortune 500 CEOs to transform their leadership and their companies.
Over the apprenticeship you will be supported fully to develop all areas of yourself and will play a central role in shaping Xinfu.
Compensation
We are looking for someone exceptional and recognise that in the team’s earnings. Initial packages broadly benchmark to the top strategy consulting houses. In the medium term, the earning potential is very high.
The whole core team, which you will become a key member of, are entrepreneurs who have taken significant personal risk in establishing Xinfu. In structuring your package during the joining process we will expect you to put some “skin in the game” early on to demonstrate your entrepreneurial commitment (e.g. lower salary during probationary period).
The Xinfu DNA
To be our apprentice, you will have the Xinfu DNA:
- Exceptional commercial talent
- Smart, natural ability to tune into people and strong intuition on business strategies, systems and cultures
- Frustrated with the corporate environments you have worked in; you can’t understand why businesses are generally poorly led
- Some tangible signs of exceptional performance and success
- Refuse to accept convention
- Believe that “there’s always a way” and are relentlessly determined
- Thirst for personal development and personal feedback
- Hold yourself and your work to punishingly high standards
- Believe that team is as important as self
- Work incredibly hard
- Have unquestionable integrity
Highly entrepreneurial mindset
…plus you are high performing, successful and ambitious – and willing to start at the bottom.
Your path so far:
High flyer? You may be on the conventional “high potential” path: a top degree, 2-4 years of corporate and/or consulting experience, perhaps experience of a start up. But – you are not satisfied. You still haven’t found home.
Unconventional? Or you might not have taken a typical career path at all: certainly haven’t found home and feel that you are not even close to fulfilling your potential.
Get in touch
We are under significant time pressure so please use your judgment to show on one page why you should be our CEO confidant apprentice and email with a CV to hugh@xinfu.com.