The CMO Podcast

Michelle St. Jacques is the Chief Marketing Officer at Molson Coors Beverage Company. She oversees some of the biggest beer brands including, Coors, Molson Blue Moon, Miller, Peroni, Leinenkugel, and more!

Michelle shares so much valuable insight in this episode including why beer brands are more important now more than ever in the category, a first day on the job that tested her decision making, and how to block out the noise, and focus on the task at hand.

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On today’s Leadership During Crisis, Jim is joined by Tariq Hassan the CMO of Petco, America’s largest pet services, and pet product company. The last time Jim spoke to Tariq was just before the pandemic, and in this conversation Tariq shares how Petco has accelerated their curbside services nationwide, and why they are considered an essential business. 

Tariq also shares how working from home has changed his leadership style, and how he is navigating this new working style. 

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Jill Gregory is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at NASCAR. She's been with NASCAR since 2007 and has helped the brand and sport mature into the digital age. 

In this conversation, Jill talks about NASCAR's recent decision to ban the confederate flags from their sporting events and NASCAR's stance on inclusiveness and equality. She also talks about what it means to be the CMO of a sports league, the work that goes marketing content, and making sure NASCAR stays relevant. Plus, having the willingness to adapt and be flexible and challenge the status quo to be competitive. 

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Jon Hall is the Brand and Product Marketing Director of the Whirlpool Corporation. With everybody spending more time at home, Jon and his team at Whirlpool have had their hands full. 

In this conversation, Jon talks about how the pandemic has shifted Whirlpool's marketing efforts across the board. He also talks about how people are changing their homes in realtime, and how Whirlpool is reacting to that in realtime.

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Melissa Grady is the Chief Marketing Officer for the 118-year-old luxury car brand, Cadillac. This is Melissa’s first CMO job, and Melissa just launched a major marketing effort to introduce the 2021 Cadillac Escalade (smack in the middle of the pandemic).

Melissa is a data-driven marketer and her strength is bringing data into insight and parlaying that with creativity. In this conversation, Melissa talks about her process of doing just that, how she fell in love with advertising, and the future of brand building. 

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Suzanne Fanning is the Senior Vice President of Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin and Chief Marketing Officer of Wisconsin Cheese. The Dairy Farmers of Wisconson market cheese of dairy farmers in the state, and have had their hands busy during the pandemic. Suzanne and her team had to throw out their media plans for 2020, and pivot quickly.

In this conversation, Suzanne talks about pivoting quickly and to figure out a new media plan to reflect life during the pandemic. She talks about how studying new consumer patterns and trends to figure out what products people are craving, and changing her media plan to feature more at home content, and even volunteering her family to be in streaming social content for Wisconsin cheese.

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Maryam Banikarim is the head of marketing for the social platform, Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods. Posts made to the platform are only available to other Nextdoor members living in the same area. Their goal is to create a virtual community within your physical community.

In this conversation, Maryam talks about how her career background in journalism shaped her to become a better brand storyteller. She also gets candid about why it's important to hit pause in your career if you can, in order to get a better sense of clarity. This conversation offers so much insight on aligning a company with its purpose, and how to meaningfully measure a brand's performance by its purpose. 

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When Jill Cress came on to the CMO Podcast for the first time, she recently accepted her current role as the Vice President of Consumer Marketing for PayPal. Now, nine months into the job, her role has been redefined. 

Jill and Jim discuss how Paypal is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they are using their data to better help everyone on their platform. Jill also talks about how she managing her team during these times to make sure they don't burn out and encouraging them to strike a work-life balance.

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Jerri DeVard is an accomplished Marketing Professional and F100 C-Suite Executive/Corporate Board Director. She currently sits on the boards of Under Armor and Cars.com, and most recently was the Executive Vice President, Chief Customer Officer at Office Depot.

Jim and Jerri go way back and both started their career at the same time. Both worked on very similar brands during their formative years and they dive deep into those experiences. They spill the beans about their first failures, and how navigating those particular failures helped their career trajectory. Also discussed is the imperative conversation brands should be having right now about inclusion, as they look within their organizations. Jerri opens up and candidly shares her experience as a board member and company officer as a black woman. This is a conversation you won't want to miss.

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Mark-Hans Richer is the Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer for Fortune Brands Home & Security. In this conversation, Mark Hans discusses the water crisis that is hitting America during COVID-19 and how Fortune Brands is helping Congress draft legislation to make sure Americans will have access to clean water. He also discusses his team's agility and how they are pivoting to help people who are spending more time at home by creating software that helps people sustainable use their water.

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