Marketing Vanguard

Dana Anderson, Chief Transformation Officer of MediaLink, is one of my favorite people on the planet. She mesmerizes me with her brilliant, sharp humor which is always delivered with transparent, best intentions. Every time I talk with Dana, I want to write down every word she says as she shares truths and insights that come from her tremendous career experience. As former CMO of Mondelez and now CTO for MediaLink, I knew there would be no better person to ask than Dana on what’s happening today in the challenging and rapidly changing intersection of agencies and brands. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leslie Berland, CMO and Head of People of Twitter, has led with impact her entire career, both for the companies she passionately serves and by taking a stand personally to represent and support communities she believes need a platform. The results from her leadership at American Express and now Twitter clearly speak for themselves and she shook the world stage earlier this year at CES when she changed the discussion forever. Join us in this incredible episode about taking on new roles, creating leadership teams, uncovering purpose, establishing platforms, laying the right foundation to attract career-changing personal sponsors, creating relationships with mentors and as a mentor, learning from everyone around you and having an impact. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam Stotsky, President of E! Entertainment, completely surprised me a couple of weeks ago when he called leaving the red carpet of the Emmy’s just to volunteer to be a mentor in the CMO Moves Mentor program. As the former CMO of NBC Entertainment before becoming President of E!, Adam had a lot of great tips to share on how to prepare yourself for that type of career transition as well as how to embrace the future of media as a marketer. Join us in this exploration of career development, tangible goals, content creation, channel acceleration, consumer trends and integrating the power of influencers like the Kardashians, who have a social media footprint of well over a billion followers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Bruzzo, CMO of Electronic Arts (EA), has a passion for “Signature Moves”. His career from healthcare marketing to Amazon to Starbucks to EA is already a list of signature career moves, but within those roles, he challenges himself and his team to be constantly in the hunt for a signature move. Tune in to dive deeper into Chris’s fantastical world of social gaming, seminal Gen Z insights, real-time player engagement, breaking down boundaries, transforming an internal culture to equal the external brand and how he’s gearing up to make more signature moves! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eric Toda, Head of Marketing at Hill City, the newest brand at Gap Inc., just announced the launch of Hill City…today! I had the great honor of being able to sit down with Eric to get the inside scoop on what is Hill City and how this came to life. Over zoom video last Friday, I also got to see the logo, the product, the brand as Eric sat sharing his story from the Gap Inc. Boardroom beaming from ear to ear. (Check out the clips on YouTube!). Eric is an avid champion of digital marketers everywhere, constantly experimenting and connecting the dots between digital and human and purpose. With an impressive runway of digital leadership roles at Facebook, Nike, Snapchat and Airbnb, there is no doubt there is a lot to learn from how Eric approached this opportunity to build and launch a new brand with the support of Gap Inc. I’m thrilled to share his journey and tips on CMO Moves Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vineet Mehra, CMO of Ancestry, leads one of the most purpose-driven brands in the world, which is to genuinely and authentically change the world by helping “people create personal discoveries, and through those personal discoveries, they find connections to others and we all become closer as a result.” With over 11 billion human connections between family trees, Vineet shares how to enroll consumers as chief storytellers in an efficient, modern, marketing machine. Tune in to hear more from Vineet on Purpose 2.0 and the Next Generation CMO, as well as how navigate your career in this new era of Ambidexterity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jim Stengel is the President and CEO of The Jim Stengel Group and ultimate teacher of teachers, helping companies find their purpose and developing the leaders of tomorrow. Previously, Jim was the Global Marketing Officer of P&G, where he led a 7000 person marketing team, managed an advertising budget of $8 Billion+ and won the Advertiser of the Year award at Cannes Lions. Today, Jim works more hours than he did at P&G, but, as he says, he’s “less tired, more energized and slightly more interesting just because I'm spending nearly 100 percent of my time on things that I absolutely love.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stuart Redsun, former CMO of Columbia Sportswear Company, has worked with a lot of cool brands in his career, to include Nike, Gateway, Motorola, Sony, Under Armour and the portfolio of brands at Columbia Sportswear Company (Columbia, Sorel, Mountain Hardwear and prAna). Join us in this fascinating conversation about Brand Truth, what it is, how to find it and how to apply it to bring not only consumer loyalty, but employee loyalty. Also hear Stu’s top advice for what to do in your first CMO role, how to gain credibility and leave your own mark. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What would happen if you woke up one day and realized you no longer wanted that corner office? Your passion was gone. What would you do? I was lucky enough to catch Robin Domeniconi, CEO and Founder of Threaded Tales and former CMO of (RED), in between her global hops, to grab her inspirational story to share with you. I met Robin a couple of years ago and her story has stayed with me in vibrant color ever since. A remarkable journey that took her on a whirlwind career leading some of the world’s most popular publications, like Real Simple and Elle, jumping into private equity, evolving brands like Microsoft and Rue La La into media properties and then… a one-way ticket to Bali. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Rubin, Head of Audience and Brand at The New York Times (NYT), spends a lot of time thinking about human truths and emotional connections, not just at the NYT, but throughout his whole career. It's how he led successful brands at Unilever, Pinterest and now the NYT. He also offers some great advice about how to expand your thinking beyond your purview to break through barriers, like how he leveraged inspiration from The Blair Witch Project to take Axe to the top of the market and how he's now thinking of the future of the NYT looking at the success of Spotify and Netflix. Tune into this fascinating CMO Moves #podcast to hear more on what The New York Times is up to and, per David, how to "move fast and don't be afraid to break stuff." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.