Welcome to Xodus Advantage

Welcome to Xodus Advantage. We are here to help you accelerate your job search by giving you personalized and effective strategies.

Before we get started, I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and my professional background to you by sharing my Bio.

*Janet Blumen Bio*

As a founding partner and co-chairperson of Xodus Advantage, Janet has assembled over the last twenty-four years a stellar track record of success in leading one of the nation’s highest performing sales recruiting organizations. Her early career began with the Lucas Group in 1985 where she quickly became recognized as a top performing recruiting consultant. At that time, she was focused on building basic skills in client development and in-depth candidate assessment. In 1987, she became a founding partner of National Sales Network where she has led business development, operations, and candidate resource management teams. She built National Sales Network’s brand as a consistent, knowledgeable, results driven partner to its client companies and client candidates. She understands the important roles of passion and integrity coupled with expertise and experience to create the “Customer for Life” in those that partnered with National Sales Network. She recognized that building a strong and efficient support structure (both personal and professional) is crucial to success in ALL areas of a successful life.

Janet has been described as an expert in rapidly simplifying complex issues and identifying opportunities while creating and implementing innovative solutions for overall fulfillment and success. Her style is based upon collaboration, motivating and managing people to stay focused by creating a common vision and unifying teams to exceed goals. Janet has a reputation as the “go-to” person for unearthing creative and practical solutions in helping companies and individuals acquire strategies and tools to create favorable results! Janet has a motivational and consultative style coupled with diligence and care which has directly contributed to the achievement record of her clients.

Additionally, Janet has served on the Board of Directors for First Interview Company, an international recruiting organization. She holds multiple leadership positions in her church in children’s ministry, adult volunteer recruitment initiatives, coordination of multiple ministry teams, and adult small group ministry. She is involved in mentoring programs to develop international business leaders, writes industry articles, and trains other entrepreneurs in business building strategies.

Janet is a native of Georgia and earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from Mercer University. She has been happily married to her husband since 1992 and they are the proud parents of both a daughter and a son. Janet is a continual learner and a health and wellness enthusiast.

Lori Harbeck Bio

As founding partner and co-chairman of Xodus Advantage, Lori has established a twenty-year track record of achievement in talent recruitment, employee retention, accelerating time-to-perform metrics, as well as filling performance gaps. She has been instrumental in building sales and senior management teams, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

Lori began her career working for a well-established Chicago search firm. Her focus in the early years was on candidate assessment and development. From there she progressed into client development and retention. In 1993 she founded Harbeck Associates, a nationally recognized and awarded sales recruitment firm.

Lori is an accomplished speaker on leadership, candidate assessment tools and hiring trends within corporate America. She has presented to numerous management teams of both public and private companies. Lori has helped thousands of people achieve greater success and personal fulfillment both personally and professionally.

Additionally, Lori is a recognized television personality on the Home Shopping Network. She volunteers her free time with the local Humane Society as well as organizing and leading collaborative teams to raise funds for multi-million dollar local community projects. Lori is an exercise enthusiast who runs competitively.

Lori Graduated from the University of Iowa with a double major in both
Finance and Marketing. Lori has been happily married for sixteen years. She and her husband are the proud parents of two very active boys. She and her family reside in Normal, IL.