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Steve Olenski Steve Olenski, The CMO Whisperer

Steve Olenski possesses a career journey that's been as dynamic as it has been impactful. From his early days as a creative director in the agency realm to assuming pivotal senior marketing roles on the brand side with esteemed companies like Oracle, he has consistently navigated diverse landscapes. As a seasoned journalist, Steve has contributed significantly to major publications, including Business Insider and Forbes, where he dedicated a decade to sharing his insights. He earned the moniker " The CMO Whisperer, " recognized for his unparalleled depth of experience and his remarkable ability to build trust with Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) of global giants, he earned the moniker "The CMO Whisperer."

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In The Pole Position With Peter Jung, Cmo, Nascar &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
In the pole position with Peter Jung, CMO, NASCAR

My guest this week is Peter Jung, the CMO of NASCAR. We talked about how the brand is engaging younger audiences, what they're doing to engage audiences around the world, and who the competition for N…

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My guest this week is Peter Jung, the CMO of NASCAR. We talked about how the brand is engaging younger audiences, what they're doing to engage audiences around the world, and who the competition for NASCAR.

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Floating Talent &Amp; Why Cmos Need To Be Aware Of It - Ashley Miles &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
Floating Talent & Why CMOs Need To Be Aware of It – Ashley Miles

My guest this week is Ashley Miles, the CEO of Franklin West, a new era business growth advisory and execution firm that is shaping the future of work in the growing on demand economy.  The firm was …

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My guest this week is Ashley Miles, the CEO of Franklin West, a new era business growth advisory and execution firm that is shaping the future of work in the growing on demand economy.  The firm was recently awarded by Inc. Magazine and Globee awards for its impact on Fortune 500 companies. Ashley's had an amazing career with stops at many different big brands.

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The Role Of Culture In Digital Transformation - Doug Milliken &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
The Role of Culture in Digital Transformation – Doug Milliken

My guest this week is Doug Milliken, former VP of Marketing Transformation at The Clorox Company. When he was there, he was responsible for the company's brand building and growth capabilities. His ex…

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My guest this week is Doug Milliken, former VP of Marketing Transformation at The Clorox Company. When he was there, he was responsible for the company's brand building and growth capabilities. His experience led to one inescapable conclusion; the performance of an organization is driven largely by its culture.

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How To Rebrand An Iconic 120-Year-Old Brand &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
How To Rebrand An Iconic 120-Year-Old Brand

My guest this week is Shani Seidman, the CMO of Kayco Kosher Foods, the parent company of Manischewitz the 120 year old brand that she was just entrusted with the rebranding of. It was an incredible c…

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My guest this week is Shani Seidman, the CMO of Kayco Kosher Foods, the parent company of Manischewitz the 120 year old brand that she was just entrusted with the rebranding of. It was an incredible challenge that she met head on. She shares insights and tips for other CMOs going through rebrands.

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Podcast Takeover: A Marketing Deep Dive With The Cmo Whisperer, Steve Olenski &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
Podcast Takeover: a marketing deep dive with the CMO Whisperer, Steve Olenski

In an unexpected twist, previous guest Oksana Sobol (and Insights Lead at Clorox), puts the CMO Whisperer in the hot seat for a podcast takeover. Oksana asks Steve about some of the key things he's le…

In an unexpected twi…

In an unexpected twist, previous guest Oksana Sobol (and Insights Lead at Clorox), puts the CMO Whisperer in the hot seat for a podcast takeover. Oksana asks Steve about some of the key things he's learnt from doing this show, including insights on AI, data and the CMO tenure.

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How To Leverage Fractional Support For Marketing - Jess Shirra &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
How to leverage fractional support for marketing – Jess Shirra

My Guest this week is Jess Shirra, a fractional CMO and the founder of the Fractional CMO School. Her days are spent supporting her seven figure clients, helping them grow their membership and core bu…

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My Guest this week is Jess Shirra, a fractional CMO and the founder of the Fractional CMO School. Her days are spent supporting her seven figure clients, helping them grow their membership and core businesses. Additionally, she mentors other marketers to help them launch and grow their own fractional CMO business.With more than 15 years in the field, she's led marketing for both high growth startups, plus well known global brands such as Lululemon, Pottery Barn, Jenna Kutcher, Strava, and Deloitte to name just a few. Jess' philosophy is rooted in customer first marketing, which she believes ma…

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What Marketers Are Missing About Ai &Amp; More - Dan Gardner &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
What Marketers Are Missing About AI & More – Dan Gardner

My guest this week is Dan Gardner, the co founder and executive chairman of the technology first network Code and Theory. They work with brands like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, JP Morgan, Chase and mor…

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My guest this week is Dan Gardner, the co founder and executive chairman of the technology first network Code and Theory. They work with brands like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, JP Morgan, Chase and more. We kick of talking about the eerie similarity between 2001 and 2024, and what marketers are missing about AI.

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From Near Death To A Multi-Million Dollar Brand &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
From Near Death To A Multi-Million Dollar Brand

My guest this week is Ashley Black, the founder and CEO of Ashley Black Inc, Fashion Blaster and Advanced Regenerative Research Technologies and Associates. She's a multiple Stevie award winner for wo…

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My guest this week is Ashley Black, the founder and CEO of Ashley Black Inc, Fashion Blaster and Advanced Regenerative Research Technologies and Associates. She's a multiple Stevie award winner for woman of the year, lifetime achievement and entrepreneur of the year.

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Talking Culture, Code &Amp; Creativity With Futurist David Shing &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
Talking Culture, Code & Creativity With Futurist David Shing

My guest today has been described by Forbes as an artist, a globe treading speaker and market seeker, a storyteller who identifies emerging trends and inspires clients to think differently.  His name…

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My guest today has been described by Forbes as an artist, a globe treading speaker and market seeker, a storyteller who identifies emerging trends and inspires clients to think differently.  His name is David Shing, AKA Shingy. And he is a true visionary in a digital era who closely observes the unfolding future in the vast online landscape. Following his role as AOL is European Head of Media and Marketing. He then ascended to the role of digital profit at AOL and Verizon media. And in 2019, he embarked on a new journey with his consultancy, where he works with the world's top 100 brands, sh…

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Perpetual Relevance &Amp; Why Brands Need To Practice It, Umang Shah, Vp Of Marketing, Northwestern Mutual &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
Perpetual Relevance & Why Brands Need To Practice It, Umang Shah, VP of Marketing, Northwestern Mutual

My guest this week is Umang Shah, Vice President of Marketing, Enablement and Effectiveness for Northwestern Mutual. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Umang has had stops at Xerox, …

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My guest this week is Umang Shah, Vice President of Marketing, Enablement and Effectiveness for Northwestern Mutual. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Umang has had stops at Xerox, Microsoft, Walmart, Unisys, among many others.

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Marketing, Consumers And The Great Disconnect With Rose Jia And Hetal Patel &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
Marketing, Consumers and the Great Disconnect with Rose Jia and Hetal Patel

Today I'm joined by two guests, Rose Jia and Hetal Patel.Rose is an award winning marketing and product leader who currently heads up lifecycle and launch marketing for Amazon's Prime Video. She and h…

Today I'm joined by …

Today I'm joined by two guests, Rose Jia and Hetal Patel.Rose is an award winning marketing and product leader who currently heads up lifecycle and launch marketing for Amazon's Prime Video. She and her team drive profitable growth across the customer life cycle through original and licensed content. She's also the creator of the Renaissance Marketer Mindset, a new way for marketers to guarantee growth and innovation. And her recent book is called The Renaissance Marketers Shortcut to Get Finance to Say "Yes, and".Hatal is a seasoned professional with over a decade at iHeartMedia. She's a trai…

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Building Better Comms, Content &Amp; Communities For Brands - Kyle Monson, Codeword &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
Building Better Comms, Content & Communities For Brands – Kyle Monson, Codeword

My guest this week is Kyle Monson, co-founder of Codeword, an agency that fuses journalism, PR, and advertising into a single field they call communication design. Over the past 12 years he's grown th…

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My guest this week is Kyle Monson, co-founder of Codeword, an agency that fuses journalism, PR, and advertising into a single field they call communication design. Over the past 12 years he's grown the agency from three people to more than a hundred people working together to shape the future of technology marketing. Kyle has worked in the tech industry for nearly 20 years. First as a journalist, then as a marker for global tech brands and a wide range of startups. 

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What Is Emotional Segmentation &Amp; What It Means For Marketers - Billee Howard, Ceo/Co-Founder Of Brandthro &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
What Is Emotional Segmentation & What It Means For Marketers – Billee Howard, CEO/Co-Founder of Brandthro

My guest this week is Billee Howard. She's the co founder and CEO of Brandthro, the only AI research company that scores customer emotion via human input to create the first ever emotional segmentatio…

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My guest this week is Billee Howard. She's the co founder and CEO of Brandthro, the only AI research company that scores customer emotion via human input to create the first ever emotional segmentation datasets.

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What Cmos Need To Know About Agencies &Amp; More - Nic Chidiac &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
What CMOs Need To Know About Agencies & More – Nic Chidiac

My guest this week is Nic Chidiac, Chief Strategy Officer for Razorfish, where he oversees brand and experience strategy. He's worked with CMOs from the biggest brands in the world across a wider rang…

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My guest this week is Nic Chidiac, Chief Strategy Officer for Razorfish, where he oversees brand and experience strategy. He's worked with CMOs from the biggest brands in the world across a wider range of categories, including QSR, travel, tech, automotive and government. Formerly with Leo Burnett, Nic brings a global lens to his CMO perspective as well, having spent his career working across markets in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. We talk about everything you need to know about working with an agency, how to effectively use AI and what the changing role of the CMO means.

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Marketing Lessons From A Challenger Brand Cmo, Paul Suchman &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
Marketing Lessons From a Challenger Brand CMO, Paul Suchman

My guest this week is Paul Suchman, CMO of Audacy, a leading multi platform audio content and entertainment company. We talk about what it's like being a challenger brand to enter a market, how to kee…

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My guest this week is Paul Suchman, CMO of Audacy, a leading multi platform audio content and entertainment company. We talk about what it's like being a challenger brand to enter a market, how to keep that mindset as market leader and what the future of audio looks like (with AI).

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A Slam Dunk! My 1:1 With Dustin Godsey, Cmo, Milwaukee Bucks &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
A Slam Dunk! My 1:1 With Dustin Godsey, CMO, Milwaukee Bucks

My guest this week is Dustin Godsey, the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA. We covered a lot of ground in this conversation, including AI in sports teams and Dustin …

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My guest this week is Dustin Godsey, the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA. We covered a lot of ground in this conversation, including AI in sports teams and Dustin being the first marketing hire for the Bucks, but I was specifically interested in how a CMO of a sports team market a team when they're not doing so well in the standings?

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Marketing Master Class, My Priceless Conversation With Raja Rajamannar (Mastercard Cmo) &Raquo; Ay5Qcgc 1 Scaled
Marketing Master Class, my priceless conversation with Raja Rajamannar (Mastercard CMO)

My guest this week is a good friend who also happens to be one of the most influential marketers in the world, Raja Rajamannar, the CMO of Mastercard. Over his 10 years with the brand, he has transfor…

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My guest this week is a good friend who also happens to be one of the most influential marketers in the world, Raja Rajamannar, the CMO of Mastercard. Over his 10 years with the brand, he has transformed Mastercard into one of the top 10 most valuable brands in the world.At the helm of the iconic priceless platform, he and his team are on the cutting edge of experiential multi sensory marketing for consumers and customers alike. He has extended the reach and impact of the brand by embracing AI and Web3 technologies, while also pioneering new standards in inclusive design.

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