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Where Experience Is the Teacher

Unlock Your
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at Every Level

XP stands for Experience Points. We built XPBoost on a belief we formed at Activision: the best development happens when people are fully engaged in an experience, not seated in a lecture. We bring that same energy to Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, and Fractional HR.

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Leadership Development
Customized training programs that build leadership capability across all levels.
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Executive Coaching
One-on-one coaching to sharpen strategy, presence, and executive decision-making.
Fractional HR Consulting
Senior HR expertise on-demand: strategy, compliance, and people ops without the full-time cost.
What We Do

Three Pillars of
Organizational Excellence

We deliver targeted solutions that accelerate performance, strengthen culture, and build the people infrastructure your organization needs to scale.

Leadership Development Training

Transform managers into inspiring leaders with structured, immersive programs tailored to your organization's culture and strategic goals.

  • New Manager Foundations Program
  • Mid-Level Leadership Accelerator
  • Senior Leader Mastermind Series
  • 360° Feedback & Assessment Tools
  • Custom Curriculum Design
  • Team & Group Workshops
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Executive Coaching

Confidential, high-impact coaching that challenges leaders to expand their perspective, sharpen their vision, and lead with greater intention.

  • 1:1 Executive Coaching Sessions
  • Leadership Style & Strengths Assessment
  • Strategic Communication Coaching
  • Executive Presence Development
  • Succession Planning Support
  • Board & Investor Readiness
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Fractional HR Consulting

Access senior-level HR leadership on a flexible, part-time basis. Get the strategy and execution you need without the cost of a full-time executive hire.

  • HR Strategy & Roadmap Development
  • Talent Acquisition & Onboarding
  • Performance Management Systems
  • HR Compliance & Policy Audits
  • Compensation & Benefits Review
  • Culture & Engagement Programs
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"If you're going to spend 90,000 hours of your life at work,
it doesn't have to suck."
Samantha Thomas, M.Ed.  ·  Co-Founder, XPBoost
Our Process

How We Drive Results

A proven four-step approach that ensures every engagement delivers measurable, lasting impact.

1

Discover & Diagnose

We start with a deep-dive assessment of your organization's current state, challenges, and strategic objectives.

2

Design & Align

We build a customized roadmap and program tailored specifically to your people, culture, and goals. No off-the-shelf solutions.

3

Deploy & Develop

We execute with precision, delivering coaching, training, and HR solutions that drive real behavioral and organizational change.

4

Measure & Scale

We track progress against defined KPIs, refine our approach, and help you scale what's working across the organization.

"We met working at Activision and walked away with one conviction that changed everything: people don't grow from sitting in a room being talked at. They grow when they're in the experience, fully engaged, playing to win. That's the XPBoost difference."

ST
Samantha Thomas, M. Ed.
Co-Founder · LinkedIn ↗
JR
John Reynolds
Co-Founder · LinkedIn ↗
$2M+
Client Revenue Impact
3,000+
Training Hours Delivered
Why XPBoost

Born in the Game. Built for the Boardroom.

We're not a generic consulting firm. We're practitioners who built our philosophy at a gaming company, where we saw firsthand that engaged experiences drive real growth. Every XPBoost program is designed to get you out of your seat and into the experience.

  • Practitioner-Led Expertise

    Our coaches and consultants are former executives and HR leaders, not academics. We speak from experience, not theory.

  • Rapid Time-to-Impact

    We don't spend months in discovery. Our frameworks are battle-tested and move quickly from insight to action.

  • Fully Customized Solutions

    Every organization is unique. We tailor every program to your culture, size, industry, and strategic priorities.

  • Measurable Outcomes

    We define success metrics upfront and report on them throughout, so you always know the ROI of your investment.

Meet the Founders

The People Behind XPBoost

Two leaders. One shared conviction. Work should not suck — and great leadership makes all the difference.

Samantha Thomas, M.Ed.
Samantha Thomas, M.Ed.
Co-Founder · Leadership Development & Speaker
LinkedIn ↗

Samantha Thomas is a senior learning and leadership development leader known for designing experiences that leaders actually talk about after the session ends. She builds programs that connect leadership behavior to measurable business impact, with a focus on manager effectiveness, engagement, and performance. Samantha is a sought-after speaker who blends positive psychology, play-based learning, and practical strategy to help leaders create high-performing, human-centered teams.

John Reynolds
John Reynolds
Co-Founder · Master Facilitator & Former U.S. Air Force
LinkedIn ↗

John Reynolds is a former U.S. Air Force leader and Master Facilitator who brings a disciplined, real-world approach to leadership development. He specializes in translating complex challenges into practical, actionable strategies that drive alignment, accountability, and results. Known for his engaging and high-impact facilitation style, John helps leaders and teams build clarity, trust, and performance under pressure.

Speaking & Workshops

Experiences That Move People,
Not Just Inform Them

From keynote stages to conference floors, every XPBoost session is designed around one belief: the best learning happens when you are fully in the experience.

Keynote

The ROI of Joy

What if joy wasn't a soft metric but a strategic advantage? In this keynote, Sam Thomas makes the business case for cultivating joy in the workplace — drawing on research, real-world leadership experience, and the science of engagement to show how joyful teams outperform, outretain, and outlast the competition.

45 - 90 Minutes Keynote Conference Corporate Event Virtual Available
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Immersive Conference Workshops

Workshop

Leadership Lessons from the Dungeon

A one-of-a-kind leadership simulation built on Dungeons and Dragons. Participants step into an immersive adventure that reveals how they communicate under pressure, delegate, make decisions, and lead when the stakes feel real. No experience required — just a willingness to get in the game.

Half or Full Day Up to 40 Participants Conference
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Workshop

Building Better Leaders Brick by Brick

Using colorful plastic building blocks as a hands-on facilitation tool, teams build, collaborate, and reflect their way to deeper insight about leadership, communication, and team dynamics. What gets built at the table reveals what is happening on the team, and opens powerful conversations that a slide deck never could.

Half or Full Day Up to 50 Participants Conference
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Custom

Bespoke Workshop Design

Need something built for your team's specific challenge? Sam and John design fully custom experiential workshops around your goals — whether that's rebuilding trust, forging a high-performing team, navigating change, or developing the next generation of leaders in your organization.

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Client Results

What Our Clients Say

Real outcomes from real leaders who trusted XPBoost to accelerate their growth.

★★★★★

"XPBoost completely shifted how our senior team operates. Within six months of the leadership program, we saw measurable improvements in engagement, communication, and cross-functional decision-making. The ROI was undeniable."

MR
Marcus R.
Chief Operations Officer
★★★★★

"We were scaling fast and needed real HR infrastructure without the overhead of a full-time hire. XPBoost's fractional model gave us exactly that: senior expertise, on our schedule, at a cost that made sense for our stage."

JK
Jenna K.
CEO & Founder
★★★★★

"The executive coaching experience was a turning point in my career. I went from being a reactive manager to a confident, strategic leader, and earned a promotion to VP within a year of starting the program."

DP
David P.
Vice President of Product
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