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XS IS NOT AN AGENCY
IT'S A FORCE
1. WHAT IS XS
XS stands for Xenia Shek, our founder and the person directly involved in how this company works. Her background includes 15 years in B2B and international enterprise sales, working with corporate clients across different countries and industries. That experience helps us understand what you need from the people representing your company, supporting your conference, or looking after your guests. Today, we staff corporate and private events in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. We keep our focus on these markets so we can stay involved, work alongside our teams, and use what we learn on site to plan your next event better.
2. WHY WE STARTED
We built XS because a good staffing agency needs strong relationships with both its clients and its staff. Clients need people who understand the assignment and arrive prepared. Staff need clear information, fair pay, and someone they can reach when a question or concern comes up. We take both sides seriously. We pay promptly, listen to our people, and support them in doing their jobs well. Our staff are the people who make your event work, and we want them to keep working with us just as much as we want you to come back. Those relationships are central to how we run XS.
3. THE COMMUNICATION GAP
The person planning your event with you also communicates directly with the staff assigned to it. They hear your priorities firsthand and explain the responsibilities, schedule, expectations, and details your team needs to have before arriving. When staff have questions, they can speak with someone who knows the event and has been part of the client conversation. That connection continues as plans change and during the event itself. Whether you need someone to qualify trade show leads, promote your brand, or serve a private dinner, we make sure the briefing covers what the job actually involves and who to contact for support.
4. WHO WE CHOOSE TO STAFF YOUR EVENT
We get to know our staff through interviews, conversations, and working with them on events. The people recruiting our team also handle staffing assignments, so what we learn about a new person helps us decide where they would do well. We look at the responsibilities first: a product demonstration needs someone comfortable learning and explaining a product; registration needs accuracy and patience; a private reception needs attentive service. Across every role, we value reliability, responsiveness, and respect for others. We choose people whose skills, personality, and approach fit the work you need them to do.
A MESSAGE FROM XENIA SHEK
CEO HUMAN LOGISTICS
I’ve been working in sales since I was 14. I started by helping my mother sell sweets at a local market in Siberia.
Twenty-five years later, I’ve gained experience in the corporate world across hospitality, logistics, beauty, and oil & gas in four different countries: Italy, the UK, the UAE, and the USA. I’ve had thousands of client conversations, delivered expensive machinery across the globe, organized oil spill conferences, supplied products to hundreds of beauty salons, and staffed multi-day events.
What connects all these industries? LOGISTICS. Delivering products, services, knowledge, and people from point A to point B — on time.
So when I moved into the event industry, my logistics skills and corporate experience came in very handy. Events are also about logistics: making sure the staff arrives on time, at the right place, in the right uniform, with the right briefing.
Most of our clients are corporate, and when a client calls, I already understand what is happening on the other side of that phone call. There is a budget. There is a deadline. There is someone they need to answer to. And there are a lot of moving parts in between that need to be considered.
20 people for a press conference in San Francisco within 48 hours? Okay.
An Arabic-speaking trade show host in Las Vegas? Let me see who we have.
Dancing servers for a corporate Christmas flash mob in Los Angeles? Sure!
This is actually the part of my job I love.
I ask a million questions. I talk to clients myself. I talk to staff myself. I show up at events. Sometimes I travel on 24 hours’ notice. And when a request is unusual, my first reaction is rarely “we don’t do that.” It’s usually, “let me see what I can do.”
That’s pretty much how XS was built.
We are an event staffing agency, but at the end of the day, this business is about people. Finding the right ones. Understanding what a client actually needs. And making a lot of moving pieces come together when they need to.
Events are not just logistics. They are a human connection.
Always have been. Always will be.
— Xenia Shek (XS), CEO of Human Logistics
NUMBERS BEHIND OUR WORK
Across Los Angeles, Las Vegas & San Francisco
180+ EVENTS
STAFFED
150+ CLIENTS
SERVED
5800+ HRS
WORKED
850+ SHIFTS
FILLED
