Jennifer Laine Van Beek on AI, Why Brand Suitability Must Replace Brand Safety and The Confluence of Inference
Jennifer Laine Van Beek is a consultant for a range of companies in the advertising and AI space and has just launched Sprezi, an AI-powered hospitality company. Jennifer’s wide-ranging career took her from the embassies of Japan, South Korea, and Russia to the soybean pit at the Chicago Board of Trade even before she began traveling the globe producing and styling short films and commercials for LVMH and other prestige brands.
Suzanne Powers on Harnessing The Power of Creativity to Drive Impactful Business Results
The Founder and CEO of Powers Creativity reflects on the insights gathered throughout her extensive career in advertising and demonstrates how today’s brands can optimize strategy and creativity
Sonia Jackson Myles: The Impact of Leading with Love in Divisive Times
The Founder of The Sister Accord® Foundation reflects on recently establishing a new chapter in South Africa, partnering with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and the undeniable power of leading with love and kindness
Navigating the Linear/CTV Space Through A Currency-Grade Approach
Chief Research Officer of iSpot, Leslie Wood, shares the transformative insights gained from turning big data into a form of measurable currency and the benefits reaped by utilizing AI as a performance measurement tool.
David Corns on The Impact of Great Thinking and a Bias Toward Action
The CMO of Opendoor discusses pivoting into the brand side of the industry, leveraging innovation to build stronger brands, and shares how today’s agencies can be more effective partners.
Olivia Oshry: How I Turned My Twenty-Year-Old Self’s Hobby Into A Career
“As a brand manager, if you find a creator that aligns with who your brand is or who you want it to be, I think the next step is giving them your product and letting them use it for a few months instead of just handing them a check and jumping into a relationship. Let them become a fan.”
Removing Mental Health Stigmas – A Conversation with Katelyn Watson
“It’s about balance and diversifying your audiences — so even within one company—get as many different types of funnel experiences as possible, then there is nothing you can’t tackle as long as you understand the customer.”
Using Empathy and Education to Help Change the Face and Narrative of Healthcare
We set out to build a content-first pharmaceutical company that would change the narrative. We built this because there’s a need and because we believe that if you make truly personal, positive connections between women and healthcare, everybody is better off.
How CG Created A Unified Brand Across Numerous Island Nations
People don't want to be lectured about what they need to buy or how they need to buy it; they want a story and have the information wrapped somewhere in that story.
POV: The Inextricable Link Between Purpose + Sustainability…
Purpose is not an isolated idea or a marketing tactic. It is an everything tool, an ideology that can and should guide and inspire everything your brand does — from your organization’s culture of your organization to sustainability initiatives.
Sheryl Daija and Louis Jones: 5 Ways CMOs Can Lead Change—and Drive Growth—with DEI
Sheryl Daija and Louis Jones, CEO and board member of BRIDGE, share why CMOs, as the voice of the customer, have a mission-critical imperative to lead DEI efforts across brands’ workforce, workplace, and marketplace.
Pearl Servat: Putting Transparency at the Center of Visible’s Brand and Growth Marketing
The head of brand marketing and demand generation for telecom challenger Visible unpacks how the brand’s core value of “transparency” informs marketing throughout the funnel.
Joe Jackman: Reinventing How Brands Embrace Change
Transformation expert Joe Jackman explains “the human how” of fighting the status quo.
Jorge Plasencia: Why Diversity Means Progress in Any Language
It’s fine to be a little uncomfortable, at least when it comes to discussing DEI. The CEO of Republica Havas believes discomfort is a sign of growth — and progress.
Koann Skrzyniarz: The Road to Being a Sustainable Brand
How proponents of sustainability prove to brand the value of a triple bottom line — people, planet and profit. The founder/CEO of Sustainable Brands offers the research and the rationale.
Lawrence Kimmel: Why CSR Isn’t Cutting It
Lawrence Kimmel, agency CEO and former chair of the DMA, remembers when local business helping out communities wasn’t called “Corporate Social Responsibility” — It was just called being a good neighbor. He shares his POV on how to market for the greater good.
ThirdLove CEO Heidi Zak: Supporting Women With Brand Purpose
Heidi Zak has been in finance, retail, and plenty of dressing rooms trying to find the right bra. So she created ThirdLove and disrupted an entire vertical — uplifting women with purpose.
Rishad Tobaccowala: Succeeding in Business With Soul
Marketing strategist, author and senior advisor to Publicis Groupe Rishad Tobaccowala shares how the successful transformation of any organization, during or after a global pandemic, lies at the intersection of human intuition and data-driven insights — “marrying the math and the magic” — and how specifically to navigate that transformation.