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Greg Welch

Greg Welch leads Spencer Stuart’s North American Marketing, Sales and Communication Officer Practice. He also remains a key member of the Consumer Practice whereby he served as its global practice leader for five years. In this webinar, he and IRG founder, Marc de Swaan Arons talk about the future of the CMO. Click above to […]

Norman de Greve

Norman de Greve, the CMO of CVS Health and recognized as what we define as a da Vinci CMO, sits down with Marc de Swaan Arons to discuss his marketing journey. Form his personal purpose, to corporate purpose, Norman discusses what it takes to drive humanized growth.

Raja Rajamannar

Raja Rajamannar is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President, Healthcare Business at Mastercard. Raja has over 16 years experience and sits on the boards of both Ad Council & the ANA. In this podcast, he sat with IRG founder Marc to discuss his personal purpose, the role of the CMO in driving purpose […]

Debora Koyama

In this episode of the Humanizing Growth Series, IRG Co-Founder talks with Debora about her personal journey which led her to her Global Growth Operations officer role at Unilever. Spanning over three continents and twenty-seven years with companies such as Kraft Heinz, L’Oreal, ABInBev, Mondelez and now Unilever, Debora’s story of personal purpose is an […]

Jim Stengel

In this episode of the Humanizing Growth Series, Jim talks all about purpose. While leading transformations on brands like Hershey, Lexus, Nestle, SC Johnson and Shire our founder, Jim Stengel, began to see a common thread- truly significant transformation is born from authentically activating a brand’s higher purpose. Click above to watch or listen to […]

Kerris Bright

In this episode of the Humanizing Growth Series, IRG Co-Founder Frank van den Driest talks to Kerris Bright, Chief Customer Officer at the BBC.From navigating through COVID to re-defining growth- during this webinar, Kerris offers leadership lessons form her time at AkzoNobel, British Airways, Virgin Media and now the BBC. Click above to watch or […]

Colin Mayer

In this episode of the Humanizing Growth Series, Colin Mayer talks with Marc and co-host Andrew Stephen about corporation, shareholder primacy, the importance of corporate purpose, and the role of the CMO in defining and delivering against the purpose.

Jodi Harris, Miguel Patricio

Miguel Patricio, CEO at Kraft Heinz and Jodi Harris, Global VP Marketing, Culture and Capabilities at AbInBev sat down with IRG Founder Frank van den Driest for a ‘virtual fireside chat’ about culture, capabilty, and empathic leadership. Here are a few quotes from the conversation. Frank van den Driest: “I’m particularly pleased to welcome not […]

Keith Weed

Keith Weed, Unilever’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer from 2010-2019 was a member of the Unilever Executive and responsible for the Marketing, Communications, and Sustainable Business functions. He currently serves as an independent Director on boards of WPP and Sainsbury’s, President of the Advertising Association, and President of Designate Royal Horticultural Society. As part of […]

Silvia Lagnado

Back in 2000 Sylvia Lagnado was appointed as Unilever’s very first global brand director on Dove, one of its most important brands. She was instrumental in starting the worldwide Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, which was recently awarded the “Best Campaign of the Past 20 Years” by the PRWeek U.S. Awards. Sylvia then went onto […]