About Us
About The
Surrendered CEO™
The Surrendered CEO™ is a learning and development company that deploys evidence-based leadership resilience programs into corporations, universities, churches, and institutions.
Our Mission
To equip leaders with the strategic resilience to navigate high-stakes disruption without losing their identity, their teams, or their performance.
Our Vision
A corporate world where resilience is not a buzzword, but a measurable operating system. Where leaders are trained to stabilize, strategize, and rise through complexity with authority and grace.
Core Values
- ◆Evidence-BasedWe don't guess. We measure. Our work is grounded in data and proven methodology.
- ◆Gate-Based ProgressionWe don't advance until we master. Every step is earned.
- ◆Strategic SurrenderWe don't force outcomes. We align with reality to engineer results.
- ◆Identity FirstWe build the leader before we build the strategy. Who you are drives how you lead.
The Founder
Angelina Crosby-Pigott
Angelina Crosby-Pigott, PMP, MAPM, is the founder of The Surrendered CEO™ and creator of the I AM Rising Framework™, the Strategic Resilience Canvas™, and the Cost Engineered Life™ methodology.
A Cost Engineer and Project Manager with 25 years leading million and billion-dollar capital project budgets for Fortune 50 organizations — including Westinghouse Nuclear, Chevron, and Shell — she currently holds a subcontract with Currie & Brown, one of the world’s leading project management consultancies.
After navigating a profound personal crisis, she recognized that the same project management rigor — gate-based progression, baseline diagnostics, measurable deliverables — was exactly what was missing from the leadership development industry. She built The Surrendered CEO™ to fill that gap.