CEO platform | IBM

Origins: Founded in 2002 as part of a government-funded response to 9/11, we respond during times of turmoil, crisis, and need. Our mission is to "accelerate the development of high potential leaders stimulated by technology in ways that lead to jobs, raises, or promotions, simultaneous with growth in both our local and global economy." Our approach is to instill the skillset and mindset of a chief executive in young, top talented people. Focus is on Cross-functional Leadership through Critical Thinking and Strategic Planning, with Financial Statements powered by Predictive Analytics and Artificial Intelligence from IBM.

Features: Embedded within a global Leadership Rotation Program, the platform we created provides accelerated access to mentorship from our CEO network, coaching by licensed psychologists, and networking with peers, in combination with stretch projects, learning immersions, personalized assessments, and more. Designed to engage and inspire, as well as inform, the platform features insights from world leaders in combination with such innovations from technology and the performing arts.

Examples: Innovations include simulations on running a business in ways that stimulate profitable revenue growth and avoid bankruptcy. Innovations also include the requisite mindset of CEO-level leaders, as presented through television, music, movie, poetry, and dance. Consider, for example, the lesson we can all learn on Resiliency from the UK-based Oscar award-winning movie "The Theory of Everything."

Top 5 Reasons you should join us

Breakfast Club featuring keynote from world leaders, including our CEO network.

The #1 most desired skillset and the mindset that employers prefer even more.

Cutting edge innovations like predictive analytics and artificial intelligence from IBM.

Dinner Concert featuring doctorate research through the performing arts.

Travel Abroad in Rio de Janeiro and other beachfront centers of tourism and commerce.

"The interns look you up, seek you out, and respect your accomplishments."

Founder: Founded in 2002 by Ian Jackson, JD, MBA, BSEE, when he was a student in the Executive MBA program at Cornell, our venture gained its start pro bono. We advised a fashion designer and her retail store in New York City's World Trade Center district on business recovery in support of the Women's Venture Fund.

We emerged as a member benefit of the NYC Bar Association regarding its base of over 23,000 attorneys. Our work attracted sponsorship from Wall Street, and then led to a joint-lecture with Harvard Law School. We have also supported the New York Women's Bar Association as they celebrated their 70th anniversary.

Our founder, Ian, gained is start in the legal profession as a Fellow of the Delaware State Bar Association, when he was a first-year student at Boston University School of Law, a school that tends to rank #1 in the nation in teaching. As a Fellow, he worked in Delaware for the law firm Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, simultaneous with the law department section associated with the IT department at DuPont.

After serving a Fellow in Delaware, our founder launched a 14-year career as an intrapreneur. He then launched a 12-year career as an entrepreneur. All considered decision-makers, intrapreneurs tend to be similar entrepreneurs, essentially young people at the level of CEO. People who are at the level of CEO tend to be similar to people at the level of Judge.

Mission: Our mission is career development for leaders at every level stimulated by technology in ways that lead to a job, raise, or promotion, simultaneous with growth in both our local and global economy.

Culture: Our culture is one that encourages you to think. That is "think big" and work with the world's #2 brand. Do you value forward-thinking people who are encouraged to think beyond themselves, and even beyond their organization, to also include society? That is our culture driven, in part, by our role as a business partner of IBM.

Recruits: We recruit young top talented people here in the United States, as well as in complementary markets located abroad. We hire on character and on mindset. We then train on skillset. Our selection process tends to focus on scholars, athletes, soldiers, writers, singers, dancers, attorneys, engineers, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, diplomats, and linguists. Many of the people on our team emerge with the skillset of CEO early in their career, cross-trained, in certain instances, as teacher or mentor.

Clients: Our founder, Ian, spent most of his career in corporate America on a revenue-generating side of Customer Service. He therefore has a customer orientation that is rather unique. Today, we advise entrepreneurs, including musicians, athletes, engineers, and attorneys. We also advise intrapreneurs, including deans, principals, strategy consultants, venture capitalists, team leaders, real estate agents, financial advisors, branch managers, property managers, general managers, and subsidiary presidents.