Great Minds

Tanya Woods is a dynamic, future-forward leader with entrepreneurial edge and successful track record advancing government and industry partnerships to deliver strategic results at scale. Sought out to provide executive-level strategic legal and policy counsel, visionary foresight, navigation on complex legal and systemic challenges, and to deliver success with triple bottom line benefits. Especia...

Peter Schube, Ladder & Light’s founding principal, is an entertainment and corporate executive with broad and deep experience across all areas of the media industry, including the production and distribution of television programming, feature films, and digital/mobile content. Previously, Peter served as Chief Operating Officer for Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me, Minions, The Secret...

Bringing 30 years of industry experience in marketing and communications, Marla joined the 4A’s in May 2017 to help define and shape the future focus for the association. Under her leadership, the 4A’s helps empower members to drive commerce, spark connections, and shape culture through infinite creativity all while moving the industry forward. As the former CEO of MEC North America, beginning in...

Bob Liodice is chief executive officer of the ANA. He previously served as executive vice president, responsible for member relations and business development with a primary focus on strengthening relationships with ANA member companies and broadening the membership base. Bob joined the ANA as senior vice president in 1995. Prior to the ANA, he was vice president of global marketing and sales for...

Jon joined Accenture Song as the Executive Chairman of Karmarama – a role he has held since 2014. In his position he now leads client conversations around experience and works extensively in the marketing and communications space. Prior to joining Accenture Song, John’s 30 plus years of experience in advertising and marketing were spent at ITV, MTV Europe, Disney, BMP DDB, and PHD (part of Omnicom...

Maryam is a marketing industry veteran who has led and infused purpose into some of the world’s top brands including Hyatt, Gannett, NBC, and most recently, Nextdoor. As a co-founder of NYCNext, Maryam mobilized a volunteer army of 700 passionate New Yorkers to incite both action and optimism—by way of pop-up performance events throughout the city's five boroughs, supporting the city’s performing...

Rob Perry is the Founder & CEO of XOMAD, an influencer-led marketing agency founded in 2010. While representing athletes (50% of his time on Michael Jordan), Rob recognized the power of social influencers to set trends and spike sales. Later he deployed global influencer strategies as President of Champion Footwear International. At XOMAD, Rob seeks to propel influencer marketing out of the sc...

Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing, and co-founder of Metacademy, a free educational platform that teaches practical applications of blockchain, crypto, NFTs, Web3, the metaverse. Name...

Nicole Lapin is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of Rich Bitch, Boss Bitch, Becoming Super Woman and Miss Independent. Lapin has been an anchor on CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg. She is the founder of Money News Network, which is the home of her daily show “Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin” that reached #1 on Apple’s business charts.

As a special treat during the week of The Masters Tournament, we’re pleased to feature American pro golf instructor Hank Haney, who has coached the legendary Tiger Woods, as well as two-time major championship winner Mark O’Meara. Hank reflects on this extraordinary career in this special episode of Great Minds.

From his days at the helm of Dropbox’s marketing to his present position at Primer, where he is Founder and CEO, Keith Putnam-Delaney takes us through his career path.

Tiffany Xingyu Wang is the Chief Marketing Officer of OpenWeb. OpenWeb, which powers over 1,000 publishers and brands, is a comprehensive, Web3-ready solution designed to create trusted spaces for online conversation and build highly engaged communities. An award-winning social entrepreneur and marketer, she champions trust, safety, and ethics in web3 development. She co-founded and serves as the...

Michelle Miller is a national correspondent for CBS News and currently serves as a co-host on CBS Saturday Morning. She has also served as a substitute anchor on CBS Mornings and 48 Hours on ID.

As Global Chief Marketing Officer of Teads, Natalie Bastian oversees a team that spearheads public relations, lead generation, digital, social, events, communications, and branding. Bastian’s charter focuses on doubling down the expansion of the brand in the US market and enabling growth across Teads’ portfolio, including new omni-channel products such as its recently launched CTV offering.

Season 4 kicks off with Marketing luminary Aaron Shapiro, founder and Chairman of Product, an independent agency focused on making and marketing products for a sustainable future. Product’s unique POV and offering has attracted leading brands like Google and Post Consumer Brands.

Dhomonique Murphy is a 3x Emmy Award Winning TV Personality and Producer and the Founder of award-winning creative agency – The Right Method. She can be seen on some of the largest stages in the world & is one of the nation’s top-booked Presenters.

Nicola Mendelsohn CBE is a British advertising executive. Active in the advertising industry since 1992, she was named vice-president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Facebook in June 2013. In 2021, Nicola was named Vice President of Meta’s Global Business Group. She is also a non-executive director of Diageo. The Daily Telegraph has called her “the most powerful woman in the British tec...

Josh Johnson is a stand-up, Emmy-nominated writer, performer, and NAACP award-winner from Louisiana by way of Chicago. He is currently a writer on The Daily Show, and is a former writer and performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he made his late-night debut. Johnson is Comedy Central’s ‘most watched comedian ever’ with 40M+ views to date across their platforms.

Stephanie Dobbs Brown leads the marketing team at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and the New York Stock Exchange, a Fortune 500 company. ICE is a global data and technology company that designs, builds, and operates digital networks across asset classes, with 9,000+ employees around the world committed to connecting people to opportunity through digital networks.

This week on Great Minds, we’re pleased to welcome Kevin Gentzel. Kevin is the Global Chief Commercial and Growth Officer of Newsweek. He previously worked at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK as a President Marketing Solutions and CRO. Kevin Gentzel attended the University of Florida.

Michael Nyman has made a career by being on the leading edge of marketing trends. With his latest venture, Acceleration Community of Companies, he has created another new go to market strategy. With Acceleration, Nyman, the former long-time PMK*BNC Co-Chairman & CEO, has developed a new business approach with a series of strategic and complementary acquisitions and build outs aimed at providin...

A healthcare innovator, Harshit Jain, MD has been driving health transformation across the globe, delivering life changing, creative and sustainable solutions since his days as a Healthcare Professional. An MD from Chicago’s Northwestern University, Harshit practiced Medicine for a few years, after which he decided to cut his teeth at big advertising agencies, including McCann, where he held a ser...

Joining Google in 2007, Courtney leads a team of ad industry experts across Google’s Services sector, including higher education, apps, B2B tech companies, home services, and performance advertisers. Her team is focused on maximizing client business outcomes and modernizing marketing across creative, data & measurement.

On this special episode of Great Minds, we feature Illia Balaban, CEO of Who Are You Agency, based in Kyiv City, Ukraine. Illia discusses creativity as part of the Ukranian identity, as well as the state of the war in Ukraine and how it has impacted so many lives.

On this very special episode to close out 2022, Luvuyo Madasa joins Great Minds to discuss the recent debut of Mandela, the epic new musical now premiering at the Young Vic in London.