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Giving You The Business Friday, 5:00- 6;00pm / Rebroadcast Monday, 5:00-6:00pm Ian Jarvis's live call-in show will give WBCR listeners the opportunity to tap into Ian's extraordinary knowledge about driving successful companies and careers. Whether you're an entrepreneur or executive, whether you want to understand how to start a business, rescue one, scale it up or just get through a crisis, Ian will help. If you're at a crossroads in your career, have a boss making your life a misery or just got a job offer you're not sure about, Ian will give you simple, practical answers and an action plan to move forward. 413-644-9797 At 32, Ian talked his way into his first job - salesperson for French multinational, Saint Gobain. Hired to open a new market in America for SG's fragrance bottles, Eighteen months later, he was named VP of the entire US division. His career took off, culminating in the sale, two decades later, of his own company - CMI, manufacturing plastic packaging for Fragrance / cosmetics - to another multinational, Pechiney. There were multiple offers to re-create that level of success for other firms in the industry, but he turned them down and embarked on a new career, consulting to executives in businesses large and small, about their leadership skills, language and culture. Click here for previous programs |
Ian's memoir, The Escape Artist is out now
Re-invention, separation, salvation; the very idea of escape means different things to different people. For Ian Jarvis, leaving New Jersey and his ‘Nice Jewish boy' roots was only the beginning. At nineteen, he quit Georgetown University to cross the country in a Chevy truck, did some plum work as a drug dealer, escaped half a dozen FBI agents at an airport, and lived eight years as a federal fugitive in Paris, London,
Ibiza, Corsica, and Morocco. Turning thirty, he broke out of exile in Europe and returned to the US to face the mess he left behind. Ian spends his first night in America inside Philadelphia’s, Roundhouse jail, beats a seven-year prison sentence, becomes a single parent to his estranged, eight-year-old daughter, and makes his way back on the rails of the American dream.