Are you a CMO, VP of Marketing, or CEO interested in innovation? Will you be in the Atlanta area on December 14th?

I’d like to invite you to my private CMO breakfast at The Commerce Club of Atlanta on Monday, December 14 from 8:15-10 am. This complimentary session is entitled “From Order Taker to Innovator: How CMOs Will Thrive in a Modern Marketing World.”

Today’s marketing leaders are doing their best to adapt to unprecedented changes in customer behaviors, pricing models, and digital landscapes….

We just completed our first annual CMOs Leading Innovation Conference (CLIC ’15) in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. Although this full day session deserves more reflection than a David Letterman-style Top Ten List, I wanted to pass along my initial thoughts.

Twenty-five CMOs and CEOs gathered from cool companies such as Twitter, Informatica, H&R Block, SageWater, Gannett/USAToday, Decision Lens, XO Communications, Celerity, and DestinationDC. Adobe’s CMO.com, a globally reknown publication reaching over 22,000 marketing leaders, partnered with us to cover the event….

We just launched our 3rd annual CMO Innovation Trends survey to help senior marketers learn what growth and innovation opportunities their peers are facing in their roles today. We need 3 minutes of your time (or less) to participate in the survey. Your input will help us gather, and deliver those critical insights to you.
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This survey contains only 8 questions, and requires 3 minutes or less to complete….

Do you have what it takes to lead successfully in today’s fast-changing marketing environment?
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That’s the tough question posed in Be a Marketing Maestro, a new eBook from Direct Marketing News and sponsored by Teradata. To thrive as a marketing leader today, you must learn how to create harmony in a cacophonous marketing environment.…

Spring is bursting with professional development opportunities for you. Below you will find my upcoming schedule for keynotes and workshops. Please join me for these exceptional networking and learning experiences.

Integrate 2015 – Integrated Marketing Conference,  West Virginia University, May 29-30. Join me for my keynote and book signing. You’ll meet marketing leaders from Sony Music Entertainment, Coca-Cola, St. Jude Hospital, and PEMCO Mutual Insurance.

The Social Shake-Up 2015 Workshop and book signing: “Leading the Mindful Marketing Revolution,” June 8, Atlanta….

What is marketing to you? Does it sometimes feel like it’s about winning at any cost, clawing your way to the top, glomming onto the latest trends and tricks while scrambling not to lose ground?

Well, there’s a different way. And I’m pleased to offer a very exciting opportunity to discover what it is.

I’ll be presenting a marketing workshop, How to Lead the Mindful Marketing Revolution, at The Social Shake-Up 2015 in Atlanta, GA….

Conference season is in full swing! I just returned from leading a dynamic session at the Adobe Digital Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah. Here are some photos from my panel discussion entitled “How Millennial Marketers are Leading Digital Change.”

Other journalists shared summaries of the session. Here are two featured posts:

CMO.com: “Advice from 4 Millennial Marketers”
PR Daily: “3 Ways to Market Like a Millennial”

My summary of the conference will post shortly on Forbes, so stay tuned….

The Mindful Marketer Book Logo

A few days ago, I shared Part 1 of my interview with Anna Patrick, a public relationships professional and author of the popular blog,
Meditations In Wonderland. (Missed Part 1? You can read it here.) The second and final part of our Q&A is now live.

In Part 2, the subject is incorporating mindfulness into your workplace/career path. We discuss what 20-somethings (Millennials) can take away from The Mindful Marketer, and how they can maintain their mindfulness/meditation practices upon entering the job market….

A few days ago, I shared Part 1 of my interview with Anna Patrick, a public relations professional and author of the popular blog, Meditations In Wonderland. (Missed Part 1? You can read it here.) The second and final part of our Q&A is now live.
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In Part 2, the subject is incorporating mindfulness into your workplace/career path.…