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The CMO PodcastThe Brand Builder's Playbook // Smart Spend: Mastering Media Mix for Maximum Impact // With Damon Berger (GAP)Brand building or performance? TV or TikTok? Data or gut? Every marketer wrestles with how to spend smarter, not just more.In the seventh episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, hosts Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, along with guest co-host Kate Lamberton, dig into the art and science of the marketing mix. They explore how brands can cut waste, make every dollar work harder, and balance the short-term demand for results with the long-term need for brand strengthJoining the conversation is Damon Berger, Head of Consumer Digital Engagement at Gap Inc., who shares hi...
2025-11-2855 min
The Brand Builder's PlaybookSmart Spend: Mastering Media Mix for Maximum Impact // With Damon Berger (GAP)Brand building or performance? TV or TikTok? Data or gut? Every marketer wrestles with how to spend smarter, not just more.In the seventh episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, hosts Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, along with guest co-host Kate Lamberton, dig into the art and science of the marketing mix. They explore how brands can cut waste, make every dollar work harder, and balance the short-term demand for results with the long-term need for brand strengthJoining the conversation is Damon Berger, Head of Consumer Digital Engagement at Gap Inc., who shares hi...
2025-11-2555 min
The CMO PodcastThe Brand Builder's Playbook // The Partnership Payoff: Picking the Right Collaborations // With Kristen D’Arcy (True Religion)What do LEGO, Megan Thee Stallion, and a Ford Mustang have in common? They’re all proof that the right partnership can supercharge a brand.In the sixth episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, hosts Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, joined by guest co-host Lindsey Wehking, explore why not all partnerships deliver equal value…some enhance brand equity, while others can dilute it.This week’s guest is Kristen D’Arcy, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Digital Growth at True Religion, who unpacks how collaborations and partnerships drive growth, cultural relevance, and long-term brand equi...
2025-11-2142 min
The Brand Builder's PlaybookThe Partnership Payoff: Picking the Right Collaborations // With Kristen D’Arcy (True Religion)What do LEGO, Megan Thee Stallion, and a Ford Mustang have in common? They’re all proof that the right partnership can supercharge a brand.In the sixth episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, hosts Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, joined by guest co-host Lindsey Wehking, explore why not all partnerships deliver equal value…some enhance brand equity, while others can dilute it.This week’s guest is Kristen D’Arcy, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Digital Growth at True Religion, who unpacks how collaborations and partnerships drive growth, cultural relevance, and long-term brand equi...
2025-11-1842 min
The CMO PodcastThe Brand Builder's Playbook // Brand vs Performance Marketing: Why the Long Game Wins // With Andrea Brimmer (Ally)Every CMO faces the same question: how do you balance long-term brand equity with short-term performance marketing?In the fifth episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, hosts Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, along with guest co-host Lindsey Wehking, tackle one of the most heated debates in modern marketing: brand versus performance. Is short-term activation enough, or does long-term brand building ultimately win?This week’s guest is Andrea Brimmer, Chief Marketing and PR Officer at Ally, who has spent nearly two decades transforming Ally from a regional bank into one of America’s most admire...
2025-11-1444 min
The Brand Builder's PlaybookBrand vs Performance Marketing: Why the Long Game Wins // With Andrea Brimmer (Ally) Every CMO faces the same question: how do you balance long-term brand equity with short-term performance marketing?In the fifth episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, hosts Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, along with guest co-host Lindsey Wehking, tackle one of the most heated debates in modern marketing: brand versus performance. Is short-term activation enough, or does long-term brand building ultimately win?This week’s guest is Andrea Brimmer, Chief Marketing and PR Officer at Ally, who has spent nearly two decades transforming Ally from a regional bank into one of America’s most admired...
2025-11-1144 min
The CMO PodcastThe Brand Builder's Playbook // The Science of Brand ROI: Measuring What Matters with Raja Rajamannar (Mastercard)This week on The Brand Builder’s Playbook, Jim, Ryan, and Cait dive into one of marketing’s toughest questions: how do you prove the ROI of a brand? In a world where every dollar spent needs justification, they explore how marketers can connect creative storytelling to measurable business growth.To help unpack it, they’re joined by Raja Rajamannar, Mastercard’s Chief Marketing & Communications Officer. Raja shares how Mastercard built one of the world’s most trusted brands by grounding its marketing in data, financial discipline, and purpose. He outlines his framework for measuring marketing ROI across thr...
2025-11-0753 min
The Brand Builder's PlaybookThe Science of Brand ROI: Measuring What Matters // With Raja Rajamannar (Mastercard)This week on The Brand Builder’s Playbook, Jim, Ryan, and Cait dive into one of marketing’s toughest questions: how do you prove the ROI of a brand? In a world where every dollar spent needs justification, they explore how marketers can connect creative storytelling to measurable business growth.To help unpack it, they’re joined by Raja Rajamannar, Mastercard’s Chief Marketing & Communications Officer. Raja shares how Mastercard built one of the world’s most trusted brands by grounding its marketing in data, financial discipline, and purpose. He outlines his framework for measuring marketing ROI across thr...
2025-11-0453 min
The CMO PodcastThe Brand Builder's Playbook // Turning Brand Perception into Pricing Power with Sandeep Seth (Tapestry)The consumer sets the price. That simple truth reframes how we think about brand strength and its real business impact.In the third episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, hosts Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, along with guest co-host Cait Lamberton (Professor of Marketing at Wharton), unpack one of the most powerful—and often misunderstood—outcomes of strong brand building: pricing power.Our guest this week is Sandeep Seth, Chief Growth Officer at Tapestry (parent company of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman), who joins the conversation to share lessons from his decades at Procte...
2025-10-3152 min
The Brand Builder's PlaybookTurning Brand Perception into Pricing Power // With Sandeep Seth (Tapestry)The consumer sets the price. That simple truth reframes how we think about brand strength and its real business impact.In the third episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, hosts Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, along with guest co-host Cait Lamberton (Professor of Marketing at Wharton), unpack one of the most powerful—and often misunderstood—outcomes of strong brand building: pricing power.Our guest this week is Sandeep Seth, Chief Growth Officer at Tapestry (parent company of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman), who joins the conversation to share lessons from his decades at Procte...
2025-10-2852 min
The CMO PodcastThe Brand Builder's Playbook // Beyond Awareness: The Business Impact of Brand Love with Sofia Colucci (Molson Coors)Tune in each Friday to enjoy our most recent episode of The Brand Builder's Playbook...---How do you turn customer love into business growth? In the second episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, the team explores how emotional connection fuels measurable results, from loyalty and repeat purchase to long-term enterprise value.Jim, Ryan, and Lindsey dive into what it really means to build “Brand Love,” using BERA’s Love Curve to unpack how the most emotionally connected brands outperform competitors on pricing power, market share, and shareholder returns.They’re joined b...
2025-10-2446 min
The Brand Builder's PlaybookBeyond Awareness: The Business Impact of Brand Love // With Sofia Colucci (Molson Coors)How do you turn customer love into business growth? In the second episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, the team explores how emotional connection fuels measurable results, from loyalty and repeat purchase to long-term enterprise value.Jim, Ryan, and Lindsey dive into what it really means to build “Brand Love,” using BERA’s Love Curve to unpack how the most emotionally connected brands outperform competitors on pricing power, market share, and shareholder returns.They’re joined by Sofia Colucci, Chief Marketing Officer of Molson Coors, who shares how her team translates brand love into bookings...
2025-10-2146 min
The CMO PodcastNew Podcast Series // The Brand Builder's Playbook - Episode 1 // Why Is It Important To Build a Brand?! With Chris BurggraeveThis week we're very excited to share with you an exciting new show we've launched this week! It’s called The Brand Builder’s Playbook…a special 8-part series created in partnership with our friends at BERA.ai.In a world where CMOs are expected to do more with less—drive revenue, prove impact, and keep pace with accelerating change—The Brand Builder’s Playbook is your guide to what actually works.Now, here’s the important part: you’ll hear the very first episode right here in The CMO Podcast feed. But if you’d like to hear the...
2025-10-1452 min
The Brand Builder's PlaybookWhy Is It Important To Build a Brand?! With Chris BurggraeveWelcome to the very first episode of The Brand Builder’s Playbook, a new limited series hosted by Jim Stengel (Host of The CMO Podcast) and Ryan Barker (CEO of BERA.ai), and this week joined by guest co-host Lindsey Wehking (Chief Strategy Officer at Nonfiction Research).In this 8-part series, we’ll build a practical playbook for 2025—designed to help brand leaders navigate an era of uncertainty, constant change, and rising expectations. Each episode tackles a critical theme in sequence, offering insights and tools to strengthen your brand as a true strategic asset.We kick t...
2025-10-1451 min
The Brand Builder's PlaybookThe Brand Builder's Playbook Coming October 14th!The Brand Builder’s Playbook is here. Hosted by Jim Stengel and Ryan Barker, this 8-part series dives into how the world’s top marketers are building resilient, revenue-driving brands in an era of AI, shifting consumer expectations, and constant disruption. Featuring unfiltered conversations with senior marketing leaders and insights from experts at Wharton and Nonfiction Research. Episode One launches October 14.
2025-10-0801 min
The CMO PodcastKen Favaro & Cait Lamberton | How Brand Building & Performance Marketing Can Work TogetherToday’s episode is about one of the most difficult questions facing marketers today–how can brand building and performance marketing work better together? In the recently released May/June issue of the one-and-only Harvard Business Review, Jim collaborated with two other authors to write an article about how to maximize both brand and performance marketing. For this week's episode, Jim is joined by his co-authors of the Harvard Business Review story, Professor Cait Lamberton from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ken Favaro, the former CEO of Marakon Associates and currently the Chief Strat...
2023-06-2858 minThe CMO PodcastProsperity Through Purpose | TikTokIn this episode of, Prosperity Through Purpose, Jim is taking a critical look at Ad Age's Marketer of 2020, TikTok! This social media platform is in more than 150 countries and has over 100 million active users in the US alone. But can they capitalize on their momentum? Joining Jim to analyze TikTok is Sam Avivi a growth consultant for The Jim Stengel Company, and Joah Santos the CMO at BERA Brand Management. Support our sponsor Deloitte and experience their guidance on resilience for brands in navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more at Deloitte.comSee Privac...
2021-03-0140 minThe CMO PodcastProsperity Through Purpose | Samsung GalaxyEven though Apple’s iPhone has a smaller share by volume, it seems to be winning the smartphone battle. Apple does a way better job of leveraging their parent brand—but can Samsung catch up? In short, they are more than capable of doing just that.Joining Jim in this conversation is Ken Favaro, Chief Strategy Officer at BERA Brand Management, and Lisa Hillenbrand, Growth Consultant at the Jim Stengel Company and former VP of Global Marketing at P&G. Support our sponsor Deloitte and experience their guidance on resilience for brands in navigating the COVID-19...
2021-02-0135 minThe CMO PodcastProsperity Through Purpose | SecretDeodorant is a $3 billion category in the US, and on this episode of Prosperity Through Purpose Jim and his guests are taking a close look at the deodorant Secret. Secret is one of the best-known brands in the category, but space is becoming crowded with the likes of smaller brands and private labels that are offering natural and aluminum-free products. So how is Secret staying ahead? Joining Jim to answer this question and to discuss how Secret is doing it are, Carolyn Hennessey a former P&G executive and now an independent consultant, and Jeff Peacock the President and Co...
2021-01-0438 minThe CMO PodcastProsperity Through Purpose | TargetThe iconic retail store Target is a 118-year-old company that generates $75 billion a year. Target is surging on both purpose and revenue. In a time where so many retailers are facing uncertainty and bankruptcy, Target is growing like crazy—and in this episode, we dig into why.Joining Jim on this episode is Samantha Avivi, a growth consultant at The Jim Stengel Company, and Joah Santosthe, Chief Marketing Officer at BERA, the predictive analytics brand tech platform. Together, they discuss how Target scores on growth, purpose, and more. Full disclosure, The Jim Stengel company is a partner and...
2020-11-3033 minThe CMO PodcastProsperity Through Purpose | Panera BreadProsperity Through Purpose is a series of the CMO Podcast that goes deep on brands finding success in their purpose-driven marketing, In this episode, we take a look at Panera Bread and their new subscription coffee program, and how Panera Bread has been growing since the COVID-19 outbreak. Joining Jim on this episode of Prosperity Through Purpose is Lisa Hillenbrand a growth consultant for The Jim Stengel Company, and Ryan Barker who is the founder and CEO of BERA. BERA created the first predictive brand tech that measures exactly what impacts profitability and brand awareness. Full disclosure, T...
2020-11-0221 minThe CMO PodcastProsperity Through Purpose | EVOLIn the inaugural episode of, Prosperity Through Purpose, a series that goes deep on brands finding success in their purpose driven marketing, we take a look at single-serve frozen meals. This nearly billion-dollar food category has seen a substantial uptick in the last few years, particular during the COVID-19 pandemic, but what is the staying power of this category?We answer that question by taking a critical look at the frozen food brand, EVOL. Joining Jim to look at how this brand is making strides in their category through purpose is Ryan Barker the CEO of BERA , a...
2020-10-0533 min
The CMO PodcastComing Soon - Prosperity Through PurposeWe are starting a new series under the CMO Podcast called Prosperity Through Purpose. Every month we go deep on a brand that is finding success in their purpose driven marketing. The Jim Stengel Company and The BERA Group, a brand building firm that created the first predictive brandtech that measures exactly what impacts profitability and brand awareness, will look at the data behind purpose driven prosperity, and analyze how each brand scored on purpose.
2020-10-0300 min