Adriana Cisneros, CEO of Cisneros: "I think when you have a crisis... it is kind of a unique opportunity to really think about what matters to the core of [a] business and rethink it.”

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theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Right now, it’s hard to think about what will happen next week, let alone next year. Enter Adriana Cisneros, the CEO of Cisneros, who told us she’s always thinking 50 years into the future. At a minimum. This week, she sat down with us to talk about why thinking (really) big picture is integral to her leadership style, especially in times of change. In this episode, Adriana shares what it’s like to balance personal and professional relationships in a family business (12:03), how she thinks about restructuring companies (16:43), and why companies need to lead by example during times of instability (26:04).

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0:00.0	I think when you have a crisis like the one we're having right now it is kind of a
0:10.8	unique opportunity to really think about what really matters to the core of that business and rethink it.
0:18.7	I'm Carly Zaykin. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the Couch.
0:22.8	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:26.4	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
0:29.1	To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:34.0	We started the skim from a couch,
0:36.0	so what better place to talk it all out
0:38.0	than where it began on a couch? This show might sound a bit different today because we're skimming from three different
0:51.1	couches. The skim is working from home for the time being
0:54.5	because of COVID-19. Today Adriana Cisneros joins us on skimmed from the couch. She
1:01.1	is the CEO of Cisneros, a global enterprise for from the Adriana is the third generation at the helm of her family's company.
1:15.0	She's also the president of Funda Cisneros,
1:19.4	her family's nonprofit organization dedicated to improving education in Latin America.
1:25.0	Adriana, we're very excited to have you with us today.
1:28.0	Welcome to Skimmed from the couch.
1:30.0	Thank you so much.
1:31.0	I'm thrilled to be here.
1:32.0	So we are going to jump in like we do all episodes.
1:36.2	You got to skim your resume for us. So I grew up in Venezuela. That's where I was born and went to school.
1:42.1	In 1998 I moved to New York. I went to Columbia undergrad and then I went to NYU where I studied journalism. I was in the investigative reporting program there, which was really cool.
1:55.0	I had a few jobs in the middle, mostly around journalism, including one at ABC,
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