The CEO’s Guide to Marketing

The CEO’s Guide to Marketing offers a no-nonsense take on the business of marketing and the marketing of business. Hosted by Seth Matlins, Managing Director of the Forbes CMO Network, this series provides a master class in raising the C-suite's marketing IQ through candid conversations with renowned marketers and executives.

30 episodes•

Episodes

The one with Diageo CMO, Cristina Diezhandino, about what CEOs need to know about organizing to meet and lead marketplace evolutions, managing investment across a massive brand portfolio, and what can get in the way of marketing delivering against its...

00:48:0412/4/2025

The one with Tubi CMO Nicole Parlapiano about problem-solving, creativity, the time to traction, and effing around and finding out.

00:52:4210/2/2025

David Droga’s Exit Interview

01:03:379/25/2025

The one with PepsiCo Beverages US CMO Mark Kirkham about the science of growth and the math of differentiation.

00:46:419/12/2025

The one with TIAA Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Micky Onvural about the lessons learned in going from CMO to CEO and CEO to CMO.

00:51:579/5/2025

The one with ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming about how buying happens, what B2C marketing can learn from B2B and B2C from B2B, and a case well made for doing less, exceptionally.

00:45:428/27/2025

The one with McKinsey Senior Partners Kelsey Robinson and Shelley Stewart about the bottom-line consequences of the CEO and CMO disconnect.

00:41:528/6/2025

The one with Unilever Chief Growth & Marketing Officer, Esi Eggleston Bracey on what CEOs need to know about driving desirability at scale, the difference between marketing and sales, and how you win hearts, minds—and machines.

00:54:067/30/2025

The one with Cannes Lions CEO Simon Cook on what was said at the Festival’s inaugural Global CEO Forum about why creativity is an organizational imperative, the high cost of “not now”, and why “creativity” may have a brand problem.

00:36:557/23/2025

The one with Meta’s CMO and VP Analytics Alex Schultz about timeless truths, measuring for incrementality and impact.

00:51:097/16/2025