XOMA Engages Workforce With LSA Global

“LSA’s Employee Engagement Consulting and Survey work has provided critical visibility into: how well our people are holding up under the general economic environment, as well as, the specific challenges that face biotechnology companies in their efforts to discover and develop new medicines; their level of alignment and commitment to XOMA’s Vision and mission critical strategies; how leadership practices and management systems support an environment that engender commitment, and the specific actions that our leaders can take to improve on areas that are important to our people. I highly recommend LSA’s employee engagement solutions.”

Chris Wells – Vice President – XOMA Ltd.

Santa Clara, CA, April 12, 2010 – LSA Global, the premier one-stop world-wide training outsourcing and consulting firm that focuses on achieving measurable business results with a select group of life science, high technology and service industry clients, today announced that XOMA, a leader in the discovery, development and manufacture of therapeutic antibodies, has selected a comprehensive Employee Engagement Solution from LSA Global to gain a clear picture of the engagement trends and opportunities across the organization.

During the agreement term, LSA Global will work closely with XOMA’s business unit leaders to fully implement a systemic approach to engagement and retention that provides managers the resources, skills and knowledge to mobilize their employees’ energy and focus on executing business priorities in spite of unforeseen obstacles and challenges.

For over a decade LSA Global has been working to help industry leading companies drive employee engagement and retention through systemic, proven approach that draws on ground-breaking survey models, interactive workshops, planning tools and ongoing coaching.

Current employee engagement research* suggests that:

• Over 70% of employees are NOT fully engaged and have withdrawn their emotional commitment
• Many CEO’s question whether employees really have their hearts in their work
• Conservative estimates of $100B in annual costs to US businesses
• 2-3% margin gains resulting from even modest employee engagement investments

*Based on 20 years of research and data gathered over 20,000 managers and 60,000 employees across multiple industries, data concludes core areas of employee engagement with greatest impact.

About LSA Global

Since 1995, has helped leading life science, high technology and services organizations create and maintain distinct competitive advantages through people. We are a training and consulting firm that is skeptical of the value of stand-alone training. For development to provide value, we believe that learning should be approached as a business change initiative–not as an event or employee benefit.

Our solutions focus on full implementation in the areas of:

• Training Needs Assessment
• Sales Performance
• Customer Loyalty
• Leadership Development & Action Learning
• Management Training
• Project Performance
• Measurement
• Outsourcing Services

We believe our clients’ success in the marketplace is realized through increased revenue, decreased costs, and higher productivity.

We are fiercely devoted to the success of our clients and proud that over 85% of our business comes from repeat business with satisfied clients and that we have a 97%+ customer satisfaction rating.