Advise
Advising boards and institutions on governance, capital and succession.
Xavier advises boards and institutions on governance, capital decisions and succession — bringing operating experience and an AI-for-governance perspective to the room.
Board & Advisory Seats
Current affiliations
Arlington Mayor's Black Advisory Council
One of ten-plus mayoral advisory groups established to foster diversity, build relationships, and provide direct insights to city leadership.
UT Arlington Black Alumni Chapter | Black Alumni of UTA 501c3
Support, empower, and connect UTA alumni, students, faculty, and staff with resources for academic and professional success based on respect, integrity, collaboration, and progress.
UT Arlington College of Business Advisory Board
Guide the college on academic relevance, industry connections, and program quality.
The DEC Network
A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2013 that helps entrepreneurs start, build, and grow their businesses across the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
TCC Acquisition Academy Advisory Committee
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Accelerator: an intensive multi-day accelerator providing practitioner instruction, search tools, curated deal teams, and networking.
ScanSource DPP
An initiative run by the technology distributor ScanSource (and its Intelisys division) to support underrepresented channel partners.
Speaking & Briefings
Topics for boards, conferences and briefings
Compliance Is a Strategy
Governance lessons from running a P&L under federal scrutiny
When compliance failure can end contracts, governance stops being paperwork and becomes strategy. Drawing on his years as a business unit CFO at a Department of Defense contractor, where he owned the P&L for more than $500M in global operations, Xavier shows boards how to build controls, reporting and audit readiness that protect the mission and still let the organization move.
Best for
Corporate and nonprofit boards, audit and finance committees, public-sector leadership teams, government-contracting associations.
Audience takeaways
- The five questions a board should be able to answer about its own controls
- How to turn audit readiness into a daily habit
- What high-compliance environments teach growth-stage companies
Scale by Design
What successful acquirers do differently, from diligence to integration
Most companies try to grow by buying growth. Most of those deals disappoint. Xavier has spent his career on the other side of that statistic — as a CFO who ran large operations, an M&A advisor, and a builder of growth platforms. In this session he shares the patterns that separate companies that scale from those that stall: how they choose what to buy, what they look for in diligence, how they integrate in the first 100 days, and when franchising or partnership beats acquisition. Leaders leave with a practical framework for growing faster without breaking what already works.
Best for
CEOs and executive teams, boards weighing acquisitions or expansion, PE and family-office groups, franchise and multi-unit operators, associations of founder-led companies.
Audience takeaways
- A pre-deal test for whether an acquisition fits the strategy, not just the price
- The three things to verify in diligence before trusting a growth story
- A 100-day integration checklist covering controls, people and cash
Buy, Build, or Franchise
Choosing the right path to owning a business
There are three ways to own a business: buy one that already works, build one from nothing, or join a proven system through franchising. Each path trades capital, speed, control and risk differently, and most people choose by instinct. Xavier has seen all three from the inside as an M&A advisor, a company builder and a franchise strategist. In this session he gives aspiring and current owners a clear framework for choosing a path, funding it, and planning an eventual exit. Drawing on his book Main Street Boom, he also shows why buying an established business can be one of the most overlooked routes to ownership as a generation of owners prepares to retire.
Best for
Aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners, universities and business schools, chambers of commerce, small business development centers, bankers and advisors, franchise and economic-development groups.
Audience takeaways
- A side-by-side comparison of the three paths: capital required, speed, control, risk and exit options
- A one-page self-assessment: which path fits your skills, capital and goals
- How to plan the exit before you enter
Bring Xavier into the room.
Board governance, capital decisions, succession, and speaking briefings.