As Founder and CEO of Phifer & Company, I have over 28 years of experience leading global executive recruitment initiatives in marketing, communications, and corporate branding. My firm excels in fostering personalized client relationships to deliver tailored recruitment strategies that align with unique management styles, company cultures, and business goals. 

My work emphasizes creating meaningful, long-term connections that drive successful placements for clients and candidates alike. By leveraging expertise in marketing communications and a commitment to understanding individual goals, we consistently enable mutually beneficial outcomes for organizations and top-tier talent worldwide.

We recruit for advertising, marketing, public relations, communications, influencer, and digital. Everything under the marketing communications umbrella. 

My work is proven by over 99 recommendations on LI as well as having over 75K LinkedIn followers.

🔥 Unpopular opinion: Marketing and communications teams are not excelling compared to their competition due to this  👉  they keep hiring the same people from the same industry, and expecting different results.

If your entire team has only ever worked in your sector, you’re not building a marketing organization, you’re building an echo chamber. And echo chambers don’t innovate. They recycle.

The truth is simple:

Cross‑industry marketers are the most underrated growth lever in business today.
Not “nice to have.” Not “risky.” Not “maybe later.”
A growth lever.
Here’s what companies miss when they cling to “industry experience only” hiring:

🚀 1. Innovation doesn’t come from familiarity — it comes from friction.
Cross‑industry talent brings frameworks, playbooks, and creative instincts your competitors have never seen. They’ve solved different problems, for different audiences, under different constraints. That’s where breakthrough ideas come from.

🔗 2. Integration requires perspective — not repetition.
Marketers who’ve worked across sectors naturally think in systems, not silos. They understand how brand, demand, content, comms, and customer experience actually fit together. Industry‑locked teams rarely do.

📈 3. Performance improves when thinking diversifies.
Teams with varied backgrounds consistently produce stronger engagement, smarter strategy, and more original creative. Why? Because they’re not trapped in the same assumptions, the same “best practices,” or the same stale playbook.

And here’s the kicker:
In a world where differentiation is everything, hiring only “industry insiders” is the real risk.
It’s safe. It’s predictable.
And it’s exactly why so many brands sound identical.
If you want a team that thinks bigger, moves faster, and solves problems differently, you need people who haven’t been conditioned by your industry’s limitations.
Cross‑industry talent isn’t a gamble.
It’s the unlock.
And the companies that embrace it will out‑innovate everyone else.

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Brian Phifer

PLEASE CONTACT:

✉ brian@phifercompany.com
 ☎ +1 646-828-9227
www.phifercompany.com

For years, Phifer & Company has been a global leader in the Corporate Marketing Communications recruitment field.  Our success is not based on flashy marketing tactics or data-based sales mining. Instead, at Phifer & Company, we know the secret to the right placement begins and ends with understanding people. While many Public Relations, digital, marketing, and Corporate Communications recruiters use sales tactics and cold calls, Phifer & Company builds personal relationships with all of our clients!

Why? Because we know that when we understand our clients on an interpersonal level, we can facilitate matches that create exponential benefits for both parties. At Phifer & Company we understand that every opportunity that crosses our desk is unique. We evaluate each job opening according to management style, company culture, and the future direction of the business. By drawing on our years of experience in the marketing communication industry, we forge successful placements that translate into positive results for your company.

As a talented Public Relations, Marketing, or Communications job seeker, we understand how frustrating it can be to work with recruiters who don't take the time to appreciate your particular capacities and how they would fit into a corporate environment. At Phifer & Company, we seek to fully grasp your long and short term goals so we can match you with the job you need to propel your career forward.

Welcome to Phifer & Company

NYC, London, and Los Angeles.

www.phifercompany.com

Brian Phifer
Global Executive Recruitment:
Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing, & New Media
Phifer & Company, LLC
116 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
646-828-9227
www.phifercompany.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/phifercompany
brian@phifercompany.com

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Northeastern University

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Please email me at brian@PhiferCompany.com Or call 646-828-9227.

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