Kantar US’s new dictator CEO creates alarming media, consulting and sales talent exit; clients on edge - Growth Marketer Kantar Employee Review

1.0
3 Mar 2023
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Pros

Brilliant Brand Solutions and Analytics leaders being overlooked as replacement to US CEO. Should have saved former Chief Revenue Officer who knew how to lead team, win new biz and exceed $ goals.

Cons

Aggressive new US CEO creates collapse of all client, media and solutions teams. New CEO vilifies ideas of people who speak up - now a fear culture. Chris, Andy - plant yourselves in US for a month to witness horror show. Diversity? None. Boys club with token women sprinkled in to town halls for optics. Shameful.

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2.0
30 May 2026
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Pros

Hard working associates, mostly bright (and admirable) heads of department. Good benefits. Previous CEO seemed like a genuinely nice guy and would listen to you if you approached him about something.

Cons

There’s a lot of reasons why top notch talent has long jumped ship. Great at sounding smart…terrible at actually getting the revenue to avoid the wholesale data asset sell offs going on. Terribly overcomplicated product portfolios with inflexible solutions at higher costs than smaller leading agencies that have outpaced them. Department heads gaslighting everyone under VPs about performance when they aren’t winning the internal Hunger Games and are told to reduce headcount.

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