Turning the marketing talent of today into the leaders of tomorrow
The Marketing Academy is a non-profit organisation developing leadership capability in talented marketers from the Marketing, Advertising and Communications industries through mentoring coaching and intensive learning. The Marketing Academy programs are provided free of charge.
The Marketing Academy would not be possible without our incredible partner companies all around the world: Accenture Song, Amazon, Arnotts, Bazaarvoice, BT, Cartology, Commonwealth Bank, Deloitte Digital, Dentsu, Google, IAG, ITV, KFC, Mars, McKinsey & Company, Optus, PHD, REA Group, Snap Inc., Zapnito. Special thanks also go to Thomas Barton, Oscar Trimboli, Freuds Communications, The Living Leader and Wisdom8.

This highly selective, yet free program equips CMOs and Marketing leaders with the tools, knowledge and insight to move onto Boards and into MD / CEO roles.

The Marketing Academy UK Scholarship Program is a 9 month development program for the best emerging leadership talent in Marketing, Media and Advertising.
Nominations for 2025 are open, please click here to nominate
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Applications Now Open for The Marketing Academy APAC 2025 Fellowship Program
The Marketing Academy APAC CMO Fellowship Program is an 8-month board level mentoring, coaching and executive development program, geared to developing today’s Chief Marketing Officers into tomorrow’s CEOs. Now in its 13th year in Europe,…
Who's Involved
We are extremely proud of the vast amount of support built up from over 150 people who work with the Academy on a voluntary basis to help develop and teach our future business leaders
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Melanie Portelli, Board Director – NOW
Melanie is currently Board Director for Now. She previously had joined Saatchi & Saatchi as New Business Account Director in…
Featured Coach

Sarah Lane
Sarah is a dynamic executive coach and facilitator with a mix of commercial and HR experience spanning 18 years, specialising…