Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 12)

When Maggie arrived at Citizen, one of her first goals was to develop a strong leadership team. Here she discusses her philosophy on establishing a leadership team as well as how she assembled her current team at Citizen. SM: This is probably not a good question for a public company CEO, but it looks like

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 10)

As a telecommunications company focused on rural markets, Maggie’s challenges are quite different from the urban carriers. When we were scheduling this interview, Maggie absolutely insisted that she would not do it on Skype: “they try to take the food out of the mouth of my babies as a competitor” … In this segment, we’ll

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 9)

After Microsoft, Maggie moved to her current role as CEO of Citizen Communications. Here she explains the reasons for her move and provides some background information about Citizen. The consumer business of Citizen is done under the Frontier brand. SM: After Microsoft you switched to Citizen? MW: I did. I was enjoying the job I

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CZN: Rural Connectivity

We have been talking with Raj Reddy about education, and that led us to the subject of rural connectivity. This morning, we started talking with Maggie Wilderotter, CEO of Citizen Communications, a rural telecom company. Most likely, you have not heard about this company, so here is an overview.

Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 1)

Maggie Wilderotter is the current CEO of Citizen Communications (CZN). Citizen is an industry leader in rural telecommunication services with 2006 revenues of $2B. It offers ILEC services under the Frontier name in the United States. I was introduced to Maggie as one of the most impressive women executives. [Bio] SM: Let’s start with your

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