Marketing Vanguard

Just last week, Citi announced that Carla Hassan would be joining them as their new global Chief Brand Officer. I had the great honor of sitting down with her the next day to dive deep into her new role, what she’s excited to take on and where she plans to start. We also cover some incredibly personal topics that have shaped her leadership style along the way. Most notably, Carla is a working mom who has previously struggled in dealing with painful harassment for being a Lebanese immigrant in the U.S. and overcoming cancer that threatened her daughter’s life. If you ever had any doubt on the value of empathy or why that needs to be a business imperative, you must listen to this incredibly honest, raw and wonderful episode with Carla. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Casey Hurbis, CMO of Quicken Loans leads America’s Largest Lender, with 17,000 team members and 1,100 interns (18,000 apply every year) in downtown Detroit, having a significant impact on the revitalization of Detroit and Quicken Loans having been consistently voted one of the best places to work. As Casey shares his offensive and defensive marketing strategy, he also shares what it takes to run a massive in-house agency that produces over 13,000 assets on a annual basis. Most importantly, as Casey reminds us all, it’s all about purpose. “Our purpose is very, very simple. We want to help everyone in America realize their dream of being a homeowner.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave Edelman, CMO of Aetna, is one of the world’s leading authorities on not just Digital Transformation, but how to do that with agility and scale. When Dave took on the role of CMO of Aetna, he was not only geared up, he was excited to help lead a massive marketing transformation effort that included 3000+ customer touch points, many of which were B2B. But it wasn’t the transformation in and of itself that excited him, it was the why behind the effort. To turn Aetna into a consumer-oriented, brand-forward company with a clear vision and a new-found purpose. If you ever wanted to hear how to transform a company with a complex B2B2B2B2C ecosystem leveraging all the power of digital, creative, operations, strategy and vision…now’s the time. A real masterclass with Dave Edelman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lee Applbaum, Global CMO of Patron Tequila and Grey Goose Vodka is in a “pinch me moment” of his career being able to work on not just one iconic brand, but two at the same time. Both brands have incredibly rich heritages with similar DNA and ethos, but face different challenges. Key to success, beyond having a world class marketing team and partners, is the consumer. Join us in this fascinating exploration of how to leverage and augment brand swagger with the coolest technology, like VR, AR and Bot-Tenders, to truly become #PatronWorthy and get a peek at what Lee’s planning for Grey Goose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fernando Machado, Global CMO of Burger King, is an advertising award machine with more than 120 Lions in Cannes (5 Grand Prix), 16 D&AD Yellow Pencils, 1 Grandy and 2 Grand Effies in North America. Critically important in his success formula is moving at the speed of pop culture and taking risks with great agency partners. Having started as an intern at Unilever as a Chemical Engineer and working his way up to Global CMO of Burger King, he shares his top advice for other marketers, “First really get to know your brand, then develop a taste for great advertising and then just do it!” His advice to agencies? “Help your client do these three things!” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.