Textio has announced a leadership transition, appointing Chief Operating Officer Colleen Gallagher as its new Chief Executive Officer. This change comes as the company prepares to launch Lavalier, its new Interview Intelligence platform designed to bring clarity and structure to hiring decisions by turning interviews into consistent, comparable candidate evaluations.
Textio appoints Colleen Gallagher, former COO, as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Founding CEO Jensen Harris returns to his role as CTO and remains on the board.
The transition aligns with the upcoming launch of Textio's new product, Lavalier.
Lavalier is an Interview Intelligence platform designed to standardize candidate evaluations.
The platform addresses the problem of hiring for likability over proven capability.
It aims to help recruiters and hiring managers make faster, more confident hiring decisions.
Textio's board has appointed Colleen Gallagher, previously the company's Chief Operating Officer, as the new CEO. This strategic transition is timed with the company's preparation to launch its new Interview Intelligence platform, Lavalier. Jensen Harris, the founding CTO who has served as CEO for the past two years, will return to the CTO role to guide technical direction while remaining on the board.
Gallagher assumes the CEO role as Textio readies Lavalier for market. The platform is designed to address critical challenges in modern hiring, where speed and quality are paramount but processes are often fragmented and reliant on subjective gut instinct. Lavalier aims to transform interviews into consistent, comparable evaluations, helping teams move beyond hiring for likability to making decisions based on clear evidence from the interview process.
The leadership change and new product focus on a pervasive issue in talent acquisition. “Here's an uncomfortable truth: most people get the job because they're likable, not because they can actually do it,” said Colleen Gallagher, CEO of Textio. Lavalier seeks to solve this by providing the structure and insight needed to identify true top talent, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with poor hiring outcomes. The company believes this solution meets a urgent need for leaders under pressure to hire exceptional people faster without compromising quality.
With Gallagher's operational experience and customer-centric focus, Textio positions itself to accelerate the business and bring its most innovative platform to market at a pivotal moment for hiring teams globally.
About Textio
Textio is a leader in building tools that help high-growth companies recruit and coach high-performing teams. Their latest innovation is Lavalier, an Interview Intelligence platform that helps recruiters and managers make confident hiring decisions by turning interviews into consistent, comparable candidate evaluations. Founded in 2014, People leaders at companies like Bloomberg, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, and Spotify choose Textio to help them attract and develop the top 1% of talent. Textio has been named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list several times, in addition to the Fortune Impact 20, Forbes AI 50, and CNBC Disruptor 50.
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