Women Of The C-Suite: Marian Leitner of Archer Roose On The Five Things You Need To Succeed As A Senior Executive
You don’t have all the answers and you need to be willing to admit that you don’t have the answers, because that creates room for growth.
For my series on strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Marian Letner.
Marian spent her post-Hopkins years working to make the world a better place. She’d always had what she calls “a side hustle.” She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in international studies at Hopkins, sharpening her business development chops by taking part in university entrepreneurship competitions.
After graduation, she helped put together public-private partnerships for a financial firm and the World Bank.
She and her husband, David Waldman, a product manager for a software company, came up with the idea not long after meeting at a social entrepreneurship competition in 2012. At the time, her husband ran a winery called Pheasant’s Tears.
For the new wine company’s name, the couple landed on the name of a 19th-century New York socialite who had been shamed over a sex scandal, but who went on to travel the world and wow new friends…
