Our Global Partners
OUR GLOBAL PARTNERS
Championing Marketing Excellence and Leadership Development
We are incredibly lucky to be supported by some of the biggest brands from across the globe. These companies have provided the financial support which enables us to deliver our programs for free.
Our partners provide this support as they share our dedication to promoting marketing excellence, passion about developing exceptional marketing talent and the philanthropic commitment to investing in the industry as a whole.
THE GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM PARTNERS
Premier Partners
Salesforce
Our program sponsor, Salesforce is the worldโs #1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. It provides CRM software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics and application development.
McKinsey & Company
Our knowledge partner, McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non governmental organizations, and not for profits. They help their clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. Over nearly a century, they have built a firm uniquely equipped to this task.
The Brandtech Group
The Brandtech Group is the worldโs #1 digital-only marketing group and the leading global generative AI marketing company. It was founded in June 2015 by former Havas Global CEO David Jones, with the clear mission to help brands do their marketing better, faster and cheaper using technology.
Today, it is the largest global digital content partner for many of the worldโs biggest brands and companies. It works with eight of the worldโs top 10 global advertisers and 49 of the worldโs top 100. Its gen AI platform Pencil has made more than 1 million ads across 5,000 brands, and is powered by $1BN in media spend.
TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
TikTokโs global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Omnicom
We help the worldโs leading brands solve their most critical growth challenges by giving them access to industry-leading insights, breakthrough technology, and the most creative talent in the business.
THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM PARTNERS
Premier Partners
These companies have provided the financial support which enables The Marketing Academy to deliver The Scholarship Program’s we run globally. In doing so they have demonstrated their dedication to promoting marketing excellence, passion for the development of exceptional marketing talent and philanthropic commitment to giving something back to the industry as a whole.
Salesforce
Our program sponsor, Salesforce is the worldโs #1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. It provides CRM software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics and application development.
Accenture Song
Accenture Song helps the worldโs leading brands drive superior marketing performance across the full multichannel customer experience. As experience architects, Accenture Song offers a unique blend of digital design, marketing, content and commerce services focused on the digital customer agenda and the evolving needs of todayโs CMOs. Interactive is part of a broad network of 36,000 Accenture professionals dedicated to digital services, and offering clients integrated, industrialized and industry-driven digital solutions that extend beyond brand building to include true digital transformation for organizations.
Bazaarvoice
Thousands of the worldโs leading brands and retailers trust Bazaarvoice technology, services, and expertise to drive revenue, extend reach, gain actionable insights, and create loyal advocates. Bazaarvoiceโs extensive global retail, social, and search syndication network, product-passionate community, and enterprise-level technology provide the tools brands and retailers need to create smarter shopper experiences across the entire customer journey.
Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in North America, Europe, and Australia. For more information.
BT
BT is one of the worldโs leading communications services companies, serving the needs of customers in the UK and across the world, where they provide fixed-line services, broadband, mobile and TV products and services as well as networked IT services.
In the UK they are a leading communications services provider, selling products and services to consumers, small and medium sized enterprises and the public sector. BT also sells wholesale products and services to communications providers in the UK and around the world. Globally, they supply managed networked IT services to multinational corporations, domestic businesses and national and local government organisations.
Coles
Coles is an Australian full service supermarket retailer operating more than 840 supermarkets nationally. For more than 100 years Coles has been dedicated to delivering quality, value service to Aussie families and communities. Colesโ purpose is to help Aussies live happier, healthier lives. Through partnerships with trusted suppliers, Coles delivers products and services that are sourced ethically and responsibly.
Google is a multinational technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. It began as an online search firm, but it now offers more than 50 Internet services and products, from e-mail and online document creation to software for mobile phones and tablet computers. Googleโs broad product portfolio and size make it one of the top four influential companies in the high-tech marketplace.
Googleโs mission is to organize the worldโs information and make it universally accessible and useful. Thatโs why Search makes it easy to discover a broad range of information from a wide variety of sources. More than 70 percent of worldwide online search requests are handled by Google, placing it at the heart of most Internet usersโ experience.
ITV
ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK. In addition to traditional broadcasting on channels, ITV delivers content on demand through numerous platforms, both directly and via ITV Player. Through ITV Studios content is produced for both ITV channels and third parties in the UK and increasingly overseas. ITVโs distribution business sells finished programmes and formats worldwide.
KFC
It was in 1965 that the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) concept was first introduced to Britain, with its first restaurant opening in the city of Preston. Since then, KFC has expanded its UK and Ireland restaurant network, closing out 2018 with no fewer than 943 locations and boasting sales of over ยฃ1 billion per year. In 2018 alone, the business experienced a growth rate of 33 net new stores (43 gross), which was the highest it had experienced on these shores in some 15 years..
Lenovo
Lenovo is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #217 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the worldโs largest PC company by further expanding into growth areas including server, storage, mobile, software, solutions, and services. This transformation together with Lenovoโs world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere.
Mars
Mars is a multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services, with US$40 billion in annual sales in 2021. It was ranked as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States by Forbes. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the company is entirely owned by the Mars family.
Mars is known for the confectionery items, such as Mars bars, Milky Way bars, M&Mโs, Skittles, Snickers, and Twix. It also produces non-confectionery snacks, such as Combos, and other foods, including Benโs Original, and pasta sauce brand Dolmio, as well as pet foods, such as Pedigree, Whiskas, Nutro and Royal Canin brands.
NRMA Insurance
For almost one hundred years weโve helped people. In that time, weโve repaired homes and rebuilt lives. Weโve advocated for road safety, and more resilient communities. From drought to flood, from fire to storm, we canโt change our climate, but we can change the way we help. To find out more about how NRMA Insurance is becoming A Help Companyโข, visit www.nrma.com.au/a-help-company Car Insurance, Motorcycle Insurance, Home Insurance, Business Insurance, Travel Insurance, Boat Insurance and Caravan Insurance. Visit www.nrma.com.au Cover is subject to standard underwriting guidelines and policy terms, which include further conditions, limits and exclusions. Always read the PDS. The PDS & TMDs are available from NRMA Insurance at:
https://www.nrma.com.au/.
Optus
Optus is an Australian leader in telecommunications, delivering cutting-edge communications and entertainment services. As one of the largest telecommunications companies in Australia, Optus provides mobile, telephony, internet, satellite, entertainment and business network services to more than 10 million customers each day.
PHD
PHD London was the founding office of the first truly planning-led media agency in the UK. Today it is now part of a 70 office global network, home of PHDโs worldwide management team and part of Omnicom Media Group. From its inception, PHD has always been one of the UKโs most forward-thinking media agencies, renowned for challenging convention, breaking new ground in communications thinking and ultimately looking to find a better way in everything they do.
Finding a better way manifests itself in many ways โ from being the first media agency in the UK to launch its own affiliates network to offering the most comprehensive media education programme to 200 clients, for free, to employing their own in-house recruitment specialist to ensure they attract the best talent and reduce the amount of money they spend finding them.
This approach, coupled with the buying power they offer through Omnicom Media Groupโs centralised negotiation point, OPera, has attracted a diverse client list which includes Sainsburyโs, Cadbury, Confused.com, Warner Bros., ING Direct, and their founding client The Guardian, who they have worked with for 20 years.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Fiji, Asia, USA and the United Kingdom. Commonly referred to as the Commonwealth Bank (or Commbank), it provides a variety of financial services including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and broking services. The Commonwealth Bank is now the second largest Australian listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange as of January 2008 with brands including Bankwest, Colonial First State Investments Limited, ASB Bank (New Zealand), Commonwealth Securities Limited (CommSec) and Commonwealth Insurance Limited (CommInsure).
Founded in 1911 by the Australian government, the Commonwealth Bank is one of the โbig fourโ Australian banks, with National Australia Bank (NAB), ANZ and Westpac. The bank listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1991 and the government fully privatised it in 1996.
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Workday
Workdayis a leading enterprise platform that helps organizations manage their most important assets โ theirpeopleandmoney. The Workday platform is built with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by more than 10,500 organizations around the world and across industries โ from medium-sized businesses to more than 60% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday.
ALUMNI PARTNERS
Supporting our global network of Scholar and Fellow Alumni.
Salesforce
Our program sponsor, Salesforce is the worldโs #1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. It provides CRM software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics and application development.
Financial Times
The Financial Times is one of the worldโs leading news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT Group, part of Nikkei Inc., provides a broad range of information, news and services to ambitious individuals and organisations.
Influencer
Established in 2017 from the minds of visionary creators and industry trailblazers, weโve since grown into a global powerhouse. Today, our network of 120+social experts spans across five key locations, weaving a tapestry of experience and expertise thatโs truly world-class.
Our distinctive technology unites the dynamism of people and platform, facilitating an unparalleled service and remarkable campaign results across the globe. Itโs not just about likes and impressions โ our expert team dives deep into data and analytics, unveiling profound insights that truly redefine success.
News Corp Australia
News Corp Australia tells the stories that matter to over 17 million Australians every month as an important part of News Corp, a diversified global media and information services company.
From breaking news in the morning to deciding dinner that night, Australia trusts our brands to inform, inspire and delight across the day โ including The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail, The Advertiser, Mercury, NT News, Townsville Bulletin, The Cairns Post, Gold Coast Bulletin, Geelong Advertiser, news.com.au, Vogue, GQ, Kidspot, taste.com.au and plenty more.
Snap
VaynerX
We are a family companies building brands for the now.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Supporting our global network of Scholars, Fellows, and Alumni.
Salesforce
Our program sponsor, Salesforce is the worldโs #1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. It provides CRM software and applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics and application development.
Afterpay
Amazon
Amazon.com was founded in 1994 with Amazonโs mission is to be Earthโs most customer-centric company. Amazon offers low prices and fast delivery on millions of items, designs and builds the bestselling Kindle hardware, and empowers companies and governments in over 190 countries around the world with the leading cloud computing infrastructure through its Amazon Web Services offering.
Arnott’s
The Arnottโs Group is an Australian producer of biscuits and snack food. Founded in 1865, they are the largest producer of biscuits in Australia. They are the custodians of some of Australiaโs most recognised food brands, including Arnottโs, Campbellโs, V8, Messy Monkeys, Freedom Cereals and 180degrees โ to name a few.Theyโre committed to operating within the natural boundaries of the planet, ensuring that they source and make their products sustainably and connect to the communities in which they operate.
KEPAK
Kepak is an Irish based food company serving international markets, restaurants and household foodservice names with prime cuts of meat, on-trend foodservice solutions and ready-for-market convenience foods.
With over 50 yearsโ expertise in meat craft, we are still leading the way with bespoke innovations and highly successful, international food brands.
KFC
It was in 1965 that the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) concept was first introduced to Britain, with its first restaurant opening in the city of Preston. Since then, KFC has expanded its UK and Ireland restaurant network, closing out 2018 with no fewer than 943 locations and boasting sales of over ยฃ1 billion per year. In 2018 alone, the business experienced a growth rate of 33 net new stores (43 gross), which was the highest it had experienced on these shores in some 15 years..
Nomad Foods
Nomad Foods are the largest frozen food company in Europe where they are proud owners of a portfolio of leading niche brands which includes Birds Eye, Findus and iglo. They manufacture, sell and distribute a range of branded frozen food products across 13 European countries with the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Sweden and France representing our five largest markets.
Headquartered in the United Kingdom, Nomad Foods was formed in 2015 following the acquisition of iglo Group. They are a NYSE listed company trading under the symbol โNOMDโ with the long term goal of developing a global portfolio of best in class food brands by growing organically and through strategic M&A. To find out more, please visit:
www.nomadfoods.com
Zapnito
Zapnito is the SaaS platform that helps brands deliver expertise on-demand and build sustainable communities. Their platform helps knowledge-sharing industries, event organizers, healthcare organizations and more to connect with their audiences, drive revenue and reach business goals.
FACULTY LEARNING PARTNERS
These fabulous organisations contribute to the coaching and leadership development of our programs.
Freuds Communications
Freud Communications is a full-service PR and strategic communications agency that builds, protects, and enhances the reputations of our clients through impactful storytelling. The organization is global in both outlook and delivery. Their consultants in London and New York have worked at the highest levels of business, government, media, charity and academia. They pride themselves on our unrivalled network across the world.
Freuds Communications has been working with The Marketing Academy Fellowship program for 10 years providing CEO Media Training once our Fellows complete their 9-month program.
Oscar Trimboli
Oscar runs our Coaching Faculty in Australia. Oscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker.
Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace. Through his work with chairs, boards of directors, and executive teams, Oscar has experienced first-hand the transformational impact leaders can have when they listen beyond words. He believes that when leadership teams focus their attention and listening, they will build organizations that create powerful legacies for the people they serve โ today and, more importantly, for future generations.
Oscar is a marketing and technology industry veteran working for Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Polycom, and Vodafone. He consults with organizations, including American Express, AstraZeneca, Cisco, Google, HSBC, IAG, Montblanc, PwC, Salesforce, Sanofi, SAP, and Siemens.
He is the author of how to listen โ discover the hidden key to better communication โ the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace, Deep Listening โ Impact beyond words and Breakthroughs: How to Confront Assumptions.
The Living Leader
The Living Leaderโs Personal Leadership Program provides a powerful springboard for generating the understanding and co-operation required for success as well as exploring abilities and expanding horizons and explains the fundamental elements of creating an environment where individuals can think clearly, deeply and creatively.
The Living Leader is headed by Penny Ferguson, and provides Personal Leadership Development. They are committed to creating permanent positive change that impacts each individual they touch. The organizationโs philosophy is based on the belief that it is not important to simply be an outstanding leader but about how many leaders you can develop, and their goal is to pass this on to delegates attending their courses.
Over 35,000 delegates from across the globe have experienced their programs, which are renowned for the fast and dramatic results that they achieve, both for the organization and for the individual.
Thomas Barta
These fabulous organizations contribute to the coaching and leadership development of our programs.
Thomas Barta is the worldโs premier expert, author, and keynote speaker on marketing leadership.
Thomas is a former partner of McKinsey. His pioneering research brings a fresh perspective to the customer organization: leadership โ including the worldโs largest study, with over 68,000 assessments โ on what makes for an impactful marketing officer.
Thomas has consulted and marketed for over 20 years, in 14 industries, in 45 countries. His clients include many of the worldโs most prominent companies, including over two dozen from the Fortune 500.He is the author of the leadership book The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader (with Patrick Barwise, McGraw-Hill). He writes for numerous publications from Forbes to Marketing Week.
After a fast-track marketing career at Kimberly-Clark (Kleenex), where he led the growth of large international brands, Thomas joined McKinsey to help CEOs deliver profitable growth in a bigger way. He later became the client strategy advisor to McKinseyโs global board of directors. As a dean of the firmโs highest-rated internal program, Thomas trained over a thousand McKinsey leaders on driving change without authority.
For the CMO Fellowship (a McKinsey and Marketing Academy program to prepare CMOs for a CEO role), Thomas serves as its long-standing leadership dean. For a select group of global CMOs, Thomas serves as their personal advisor.
Thomas holds an MBA from London Business School and a Masterโs in Clinical Organizational Psychology from INSEAD Business School (France and Singapore).
Wisdom8
Wisdom8 is a boutique, international coaching ๏ฌrm that works with CEOs, Executive Boards, and emerging C-Suite leaders, to accelerate executive performance and work towards greater business results.
Wisdom8, led by CEO, Katherine Tulpa, has been running the Coaching Faculty for the both our Scholarship and Fellowship Programs in the UK and EMEA for over 9 years, and recently for the Fellowship Program in the US.
Leigh Morrison
Leigh has a 20+ year background in the local marketing and communications industry, having worked as an employee, coach and consultant in local award-winning Agencies, in Client side roles, and as an extension of HR/ P&C departments in successful businesses. Leigh has been running her own practice, be. Transition Coaching, for the past 15 years equipping leaders to navigate the ever-changing landscape of work.
Leigh is passionate about helping people, teams and organisationโs culture to recalibrate. Her role can be as an objective and external voice, or embedding herself as a chairperson and coach to leadership teams. Her processes have been proven to help all levels of the organisation align, set and agree the direction to stay on track, improve communication and levels of accountability, build recognition and belonging and celebrate success. Leighโs holistic methodology aligns personal wellbeing and responsibility, to drive business performance and peak energy levels. She is seen as a trusted partner and advisor during transformation.
Leigh coaches both established and emerging leaders. Grounded in strengthening confidence, developing skills, navigating through new roles and responsibilities, or managing difficult feedback. This involves supporting Clients through a series of bespoke sessions to; develop strategies, build awareness, hold accountability, highlight blind spots, harness strengths and celebrate change.
Leigh sits within established coaching panels. Working alongside other coaches to build capability and leadership competencies specific to the organisation needs.
Clarety
Our disrupted and rapidly evolving world calls for a different approach in supporting leaders and their teams to light up their organisations and confidently navigate the future.
We offer executive coaching and leadership development programs that luminate leaders and their teams by activating our โhumanโ super-powers like creativity, emotional intelligence and wisdom. We believe this creates energised, resilient, and courageous leaders that light up the way for others to follow.
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