Rev It Up with Jess Tiffany

The first million followers, and the pivot to virtual teams with Jim Citrin Senior Director of Spencer Stuart


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In this episode, Jess interviews Jim Citrin, a noted expert on leadership, executive success, and CEO succession, about how he helps companies and organizations grow and thrive even within challenging environments like the one brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, and how we can all shift towards virtual and remote work while also becoming effective leaders.

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In this episode, I interview Jim Citrin, a noted expert on leadership, executive success, and CEO succession. He is the author of seven books, including the international best-sellers “You're in Charge-Now What?”and “The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers”, and the critically acclaimed, “The Career Playbook'' Jim is one of the world's foremost executive recruiters and leadership advisories and leads Spencer Stuart's North American CEO Practice add is a core member of the firm’s Board practice as well.

Throughout his 26 years at Spencer Stuart, Jim has completed more than 775 CEO, board director, and top management searches for leading media, technology, communications, consumer, financial services, healthcare, and energy companies, as well as private-equity firms and major not-for-profit institutions. He is a 19 year member of the worldwide board of directors of Spencer Stuart.

Jim comes on to share his years of leadership expertise and how he has been working with companies and organizations worldwide to help them navigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. He is also going to talk about his new book, “Leading at a Distance: How to Be the Most Effective Leader in a Virtual World” which is focused on the shift we’re all experiencing right now towards virtual and remote work, and how we can be effective as leaders and individuals. Jim’s insights will definitely be a great resource to help you find ways to improve your leadership skills and scale your business. Enjoy!


  • Getting from zero to a just under a million followers of      LinkedIn (01:38)    Jim Citrin on LinkedIn
  • How the world is shifting quickly towards virtual and remote      work (04:02)
  • Key takeaways of running virtual teams and becoming a leader      at a distance (07:21)
  • The democratization of decision making that’s coming from      people working with virtual environments (13:59)
  • Helping companies globally shift from traditional ways of      doing CEO, executive and board recruiting to doing it in a virtual way      (17:12)
  • The process of searching for the best CEOs and bringing them      to the front to be hired by successful and global companies and      organizations (20:18)
  • Leveraging online marketing and social media at Spencer      Stuart to grow their business (25:19)
  • The profound difference that being an author has made in his      business (35:53)

    Order Jim's new book Leading at a Distance: Practical Lessons for Virtual Success


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