Episode 158 - Jeff Berardi’s 7 steps to better, more strategic thought leadership

Thought leadership is essential to professional services marketing - it provides firms with a powerful platform to showcase their expertise while delivering value to clients and prospects. 

In today’s episode of the CMO Series Podcast, we dive into a new approach to thought leadership, one designed to maximize its strategic business impact.

Ed Lovatt sits down with Jeff Berardi, former Chief BD and Marketing Officer at Arnold & Porter, CMO at K&L Gates and Ankura, and now a marketing consultant at Berardi Consulting, to discuss his 7-step model for driving business value through thought leadership.

Jeff and Ed cover: 

• Why marketers and BD professionals need to look at thought leadership differently, and why they should sit up and pay attention to this 7-step model
• Jeff’s career journey and the moment he realized thought leadership could be done more effectively
• A run-through of the 7-step model
• Real-life examples that demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach 
• Advice for those thinking of tackling thought leadership in this new way

You can read more about Jeff’s 7-step process in this LSSO article.