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Search complete. 8 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Spencer Stuart".
Sep 8, 2026
Tomer TuckerGUEST
it can be coming from Harvard, whi- which is like, uh, 18 month or so, while the tenure of the, the CEO is around four years.
Tomer TuckerGUEST
And you have, um, I, I quoted Spencer Stuart's, uh, uh, research from, uh, 2024 that is around, uh, um, uh, four point whatever.
Tomer TuckerGUEST
Um, I, I, I think this represents a huge problem, and to be honest, I'm, I'm, uh, into this specific topic for a few years already.
Tomer TuckerGUEST
Uh, as a VP marketing, as a CMO, it always, you know, triggered me to dive into that and try to understand what are the actual reasons for that, and I came up with this thesis, uh, based on the researches and also based on my own experience as CMO and VP marketing and working with, uh, many, many, uh, company, tech...
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Tomer TuckerGUEST
And i- in the, some of the researches I, I, I read and reviewed that there is, uh, um, uh, I think that there was a very interesting, uh, uh, analogy around this type of, uh, um, uh, relationship between the CEO and the CMO.
Tomer TuckerGUEST
Um, they took it to the relationship between the, the, the marketing and sales, which is, uh, you know, another interesting topic to discuss.
Tomer TuckerGUEST
But, um, Spencer Stuart's, uh, the, the, the business consulting company, uh, research points, uh, uh, that the, the marketing sale relationship, um, as is, there are the single, um, re- uh, strong, uh, uh, strongest, uh, predictions, um, uh, for a long-term, uh, CMO stability.
Tomer TuckerGUEST
So- Think about, um, the, the dynamic between CMOs and CROs, whatever, as, um, a signal of the success of the company.
Debra BoggsGUEST
Yeah, couple of things, um, that I really like.
Debra BoggsGUEST
Uh, Spencer Stuart has a really great newsletter.
Debra BoggsGUEST
They put, um... and I know this is an HR group.
Debra BoggsGUEST
They put amazing content out on, um, the hiring landscape right now up to the board level.
Olga MaslikhovaHOST
The first question is: What's one question founders should ask VCs but almost never do?
Nigel MorrisGUEST
I mean, what would be on my mind as a founder is, am I going to get the partner that I've worked with? People ask me, "Well, should I sign up at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan or Morgan Stanley?" I say, "You sign up the partner that you like." "Should I work with Egon Zehnder or, um, or Spencer Stuart or Russ Reynolds?" Sign up the partner that you want to work with.
Nigel MorrisGUEST
They're not all the same, but the difference between a good partner and a bad partner is bigger than the difference between the firms.
Nigel MorrisGUEST
So find a person that you really resonate with that's going to add value with you, that's going to play the full 90 minutes, and then make sure that he or she is going to be there.
Laura SteinGUEST
And then, you know, women often lifting women up, and, uh, men lift people up, too, so it's there.
Laura SteinGUEST
But a, a, a woman I knew well, um, was at dinner with, uh, uh, like, the vice chair of Spencer Stuart, who'd been asked to look for the GC of Heinz, and she said, "You know, I told them to stop the search.
Laura SteinGUEST
I know the person," and I ended up getting the job.
Maria DoughtyHOST
Um, uh-
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Laura SteinGUEST
Yeah.
Maria DoughtyHOST
So how did the first role come about?
Laura SteinGUEST
The first role came from the, a senior Spencer Stuart leader, Jim Drury, who's here in Chicago-
Maria DoughtyHOST
Yeah
speaker_0HOST
Oh, they are.
speaker_0HOST
And get this, there's a surprising twenty-twenty-six Spencer Stuart statistic from the text.
speaker_0HOST
Um, thirty-one percent of S&P 500 companies do not have a named enterprise-level CMO.
speaker_1HOST
Which is just kinda wild when you think about it.
Alexander GrebHOST
Welcome, everybody.
Alexander GrebHOST
Today's guest is Caroline Sahlén, executive search consultant at Spencer Stuart.
Alexander GrebHOST
She spent 20 years in tech at HP, Gartner, SAP, Pioneer, and then she moved into the business of advising boards on who should get which job.
Alexander GrebHOST
So when she talks about who gets the top jobs in tech, she's not reading from a position spec.