Sydney Sloan is a 4x Chief Marketing Officer, and is currently the CMO at G2. 

In this episode, Sydney shares her journey of:

• Being powerful but not imposing
• Sense something, say something 
• What you think vs. what you say 

 

Highlights

(03:15) Early career in events

(06:40) Where her drive and motivation come from 

(8:39) Learning from burnout 

(10:24) The hard truth - manager feedback 

(13:12) What you think vs. what you say

(13:48) Executive presence

(17:09) Sense something, say something 

(21:13) Feedback - the clearning model

(27:02) The boom of sales tech 

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Guest Bio 

Sydney is a seasoned marketing leader with decades of experience in driving transformative growth and innovation for high-tech companies. She's currently the CMO at G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. She's also an Advisor for Scale Venture Partners and a Limited Partner at Stage 2 Capital.

Some career highlights include scaling Salesloft from $16M to $135M+ in 3.5 years as CMO, disrupting the Risk & Compliance market at Drata, transitioning Alfresco Software from an open-source technology to a modern platform for CIOs, and integrating more than 12 M&A transactions at Drata, Salesloft, Jive Software, and Adobe.

 

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