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EPISODE · Jun 29, 2026 · 50 MIN

#62 – Susannah Klean – Headhunting CEOs, High Performance Habits and Why Athletes Make the Best Hires: Lessons From a Decade at the Top of Executive Recruitment

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Susannah Klean has spent a decade recruiting CEOs, founders and heads of investment banks and private equity funds. She works at the very top of the market and she's seen what separates the people who get there from the ones who don't.In this episode, Susannah breaks down the high performance habits she sees consistently in the highest earning, highest performing leaders she works with — and why athletic background keeps coming up as the common thread. She also gets into corporate wellness, why deals are now being cut in saunas instead of pubs, fasting, breath work and the 30 to 60 day habit challenge she believes every high performer needs to do.She also shares her take on AI in recruitment, why the human element of placing people at the top level can never be replaced, and the wellness concept she's building to connect leaders in a completely different environment.Raw, honest and genuinely fascinating from someone who sits inside the world most people only read about.

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