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She Built It® PodcastThe Growth Secrets Gwen Hammes Wants Leaders to KnowWhat really drives business growth today? Gwen Hammes, co-CEO of Cro Metrics, joins me to share how she went from global agency leader to data-driven growth strategist - helping brands like Google, Hyatt, Bombas, and Talkspace unlock next-level success.In this conversation, Gwen reveals what most leaders miss when it comes to AI, martech, and website strategy, and why the human element still matters more than ever. We also talk about customer journey insights that might surprise you, the key to building trust in a digital world, and why hobbies might be the real...
2025-09-0926 min
Strategy and Leadership PodcastLeading Global Brands & Data-Driven Growth, with Co-CEO of Cro Metrics Gwen HammesWhy do the world’s leading brands increasingly act like startups? In this episode, Co-CEO of Cro Metrics, Gwen Hammes, shares her insights from working with global giants such as Mars, Kimberly-Clark, Stellantis, Clorox, Levi Strauss, Sargento, and SC Johnson. Drawing from her decades of experience at iconic agencies like Ogilvy, FCB, and DDB, Gwen explains how experimentation, data, and creativity combine to unlock growth and build lasting brand love.
With a proven track record of helping Fortune 500 companies overcome unseen barriers and shift consumer behavior, Gwen offers invaluable lessons for leaders seeking to foster innovation, empower th...
2025-08-2622 min
Insights UnlockedOptimize with empathy: Gwen Hammes on turning behavior into brand impactEpisode web page: https://bit.ly/4fEzKXi
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Episode summary:This week on Insights Unlocked, Nathan Isaacs sits down with Gwen Hammes, co-CEO of CRO Metrics, to explore how brands can turn real customer behaviors into powerful, business-driving insights. With a career spanning top global agencies and now leading a growth experimentation firm, G...
2025-08-2530 min
An Agency StoryThe Toughest Role in an Agency? The One After the Founder - Cro MetricsCompany: Cro MetricsGuests: Gwen HammesYear Started: 2011Employees: 50-100Gwen Hammes, Co-CEO of Cro Metrics, shares her journey of taking over leadership, not by replicating the past, but by evolving it. In this episode, Gwen shares what happens when you step into a founder’s shoes and choose to grow the team before the business.Key TakeawaysThe biggest risk in leadership transitionsWhy growing your people first leads to better client outcomesThe “micro-step” mindset that unlocks clarity in car...
2025-08-0439 min
Strategic Counsel by ForthRight BusinessLeading through Uncertainty with Gwen Hammes, Cro MetricsJust when you think you’re settling into the new normal, something else changes on a macro scale. That’s the reality we’re living in. When you’re faced with so much uncertainty, leadership becomes even more important than usual. We wanted you to learn from an expert with tons of experience leading through uncertainty, so we welcomed on Gwen Hammes, Co-CEO of Cro Metrics. They’re the #1 experiment-led growth marketing agency.
For more about ForthRight Business by ForthRight People or for 1:1 consultation, check us out at ForthRight-Business.com
And as always, if you need Strate...
2025-07-141h 03
Let's Talk MarketingMarketing in Chaos with Gwen HammesThis episode of "Let's Talk Marketing" explores navigating uncertainty in the marketing world. Host Katya Allison interviews Gwen Hammes, co-CEO of Cro Metrics, about how businesses can thrive amid volatility. Gwen shares her journey from global creative agencies to leading a growth marketing firm that helps brands like Google and Bombas drive measurable impact. With deep insights into consumer behavior, the psychology of change, and balancing brand equity with performance, Gwen offers strategic, actionable advice for marketers and leaders alike. Whether it’s addressing change management, the evolving role of AI, or building resilient agency partnerships, Gwen’s perspective is r...
2025-06-2749 min
Power-Up With This Game-Changing Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.The Return by Anita FrankPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/504986to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Return
Author: Anita Frank
Narrator: Katy Sobey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
Release date: November 11, 2021
Genres: Drama
Publisher's Summary:
Gwen’s war is over, but her greatest battle is about to begin. ‘An engaging story of secrets, sacrifice and the persistence of love’ Sunday Times ‘A truly wonderful novel’ Jill Mansell ‘An enticing slant on wartime life’ Mandy Robotham ‘A beautiful and poignant love story’ Jenny Quintana From the author of The Lost Ones, a mesmerising gothic novel which was shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award and the Hist...
2021-11-111h 06
Power-Up With This Game-Changing Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Win by Vera NazarianPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/396886to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Win
Series: #3 of Atlantis Grail
Author: Vera Nazarian
Narrator: Sofia Willingham
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 37 hours 16 minutes
Release date: January 31, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 20
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, is among the lucky ones. She's one of several million teenage refugees to escape the extinction-level asteroid barreling towards Earth and reach the ancient colony planet of Atlantis. But Atlantis is a strange new world with higher gravity and a blazing white sun, where nothing i...
2020-01-311h 16
Power-Up With This Game-Changing Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.The Christmas Boutique: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer ChiaveriniPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369742to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Christmas Boutique: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrator: Christina Moore
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Release date: October 1, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Contemporary Women
Publisher's Summary:
Twenty years after the publication of The Quilter’s Apprentice, the novel that launched the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with another delightful chapter featuring Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstom Compson and friends, a captivating, heartwarming tale sure to become a holiday favorite.Ju...
2019-10-019h 40
Download Latest Full Audiobooks in Romance, ModernInconvenient Wife by Natasha BoydPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inconvenient Wife Series: #2 of The Charleston Series Author: Natasha Boyd Narrator: Melissa Moran, Dake Bliss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 13, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: All Beau Montgomery, one of Charleston’s most eligible bachelors, wants to do is build boats. He has no interest in marriage whatsoever … until it means he might not get his inheritance and he can kiss his boat building dreams goodbye. But the hungry hordes of Charleston debutantes looking to sc...
2018-11-1303 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Animals & NatureHomer and the Holiday Miracle: A True Story by Gwen CooperPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/349158 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homer and the Holiday Miracle: A True Story Author: Gwen Cooper Narrator: Gwen Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 6, 2018 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Homer, the world-renowned Blind Wonder Cat, returns this holiday season with an ins-purr-ational tale filled with holiday cheer! Fifteen years earlier, doctors had warned that Homer—a tiny, sightless kitten—was unlikely to survive and probably wouldn’t have much of a life even if he did. Miraculously and against all the odds, however, Homer grew into a feline dynamo who sc...
2018-11-0603 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Animals & NatureMy Life in a Cat House: True Tales of Love, Laughter, and Living with Five Felines by Gwen CooperPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/349157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Life in a Cat House: True Tales of Love, Laughter, and Living with Five Felines Author: Gwen Cooper Narrator: Laurence Lerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 6, 2018 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Celebrate the human-feline bond with all its joys, mysteries, and life-changing moments. Gwen Cooper—author of the blockbuster international bestseller Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat—returns with the ongoing adventures of her much-beloved, world-famous fur family. Ideal for ne...
2018-11-0603 min
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaThe Awkward Age: A Novel by Francesca SegalPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291384 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Awkward Age: A Novel Author: Francesca Segal Narrator: Jayne Entwistle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel about a wedged-together family, and what can go wrong when teenage children decide they have minds (and hormones) of their own.' —Nick Hornby “A spry and accomplished comedy of manners.” —The New York Times Book Review “They've chosen the one thing that will make our fam...
2017-05-1610 min
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaThe Guineveres: A Novel by Sarah DometPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Guineveres: A Novel Author: Sarah Domet Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 4, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A first novel whose tone echoes that of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides…This phenomenal, character-driven story is mesmerizing.” --Library Journal (starred review) To four girls who have nothing, their friendship is everything: they are each other’s confidants, teachers, and family. The girls are all named Guinevere—Vere, Gwen, Ginny, and Win—and it is the surprise of finding ano...
2016-10-0405 min
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaWhile You Were Mine by Ann Howard CreelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While You Were Mine Author: Ann Howard Creel Narrator: Carly Robins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Everything she loved could so easily be lost. The end of World War II should have brought joy to Gwen Mullen. But on V-J Day, her worst fear is realized. As celebrating crowds gather in Times Square, a soldier appears on her doorstep to claim Mary, the baby abandoned to Gwen one year earlier. Suddenly Gwen is on...
2016-04-0103 min
Power-Up With This Game-Changing Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Telegraph Avenue: A Novel by Michael ChabonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/142261to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Telegraph Avenue: A Novel
Author: Michael Chabon
Narrator: Clarke Peters
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 40 minutes
Release date: September 11, 2012
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
New York Times Bestseller “A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and marriage. . . Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists of all time.'' — Benjamin Percy, Esquire New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventu...
2012-09-116h 40