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This episode of Sunny Side Up features Shivani Bhatt, who has made the art of integrating data science across marketing team functions. In her role as Director of Analytics at Zuora, she is laser-focused on the integration of data analytics, strategic marketing, and growth operations. She shares insights into the role metrics have to play and where they inevitably fall short if all stakeholders are not brought along throughout the process. Shivani believes the tools and insights data science affords very often originate in the service of marketing functions but ultimately, as organizations scale and evolve, can play a centralized role across the enterprise. You'll hear about some of the people who have influenced her development as well as recommend reading for anyone who shares her passion for all things marketing: demand generation, performance metrics, and growth strategy. Connect Shivani Bhatt | Follow us on LinkedIn

This episode of Sunny Side Up features Aimee Johnson, a marketing dynamo whose career portfolio has included a unique mix of consumer and tech brands. She shares insights about what it takes to build and maintain a marketplace niche that resists erosion. As CMO at Seattle-based Zillow, an online real estate platform, Aimee is daily tasked with protecting a brand that is vulnerable to a perpetual onslaught of challenges from competitors and generalized social media noise. Her leadership style, developed through personal reflection and evolution, is a big part of what Aimee brings to the table. She’s constantly assessing the landscape and figuring out how to identify corporate brand and marketing needs. Another primary focus is empowering those around her, especially in the C-suite, to nurture, grow and protect one of their company’s most valuable assets: Brand identity. Enjoy this lively conversation with a marketing pro who’s sharing wisdom along with tactics for ascending to that next rung on the managerial

Advertisers and agencies both need to come to the table – and right from the outset when it comes to optimizing outcomes. How, when, and why that should happen is the focus of this episode of Sunny Side Up, which features Earl Potter, Senior VP of Media Analytics at Quad. He brings extensive experience with technology and analytics, helping clients get the most out of their market investments by finding the right combination of technology, method, and analytical framework to optimize media spend. Before joining Quad in 2019, Earl worked in senior positions at some of the largest global media analytics firms, including Gain Theory, a marketing effectiveness consultancy that is part of WPP, and Mediabrands, the media and data arm of Interpublic group. He shares insights on advertisers and agencies – how they can best leverage ad dollars and maximize ROI through candid communication, planning, research, and transparency. Connect Earl Potter | Follow us on LinkedIn

In this episode of Sunny Side Up, Alina Gubavu, Director of Analytics and B.I. at Microsoft, shares her change management philosophy. A voraciously curious lifelong learner, she has expanded her roots in Romania and taken flight in the world of business intelligence. Reflecting on the key elements of her success, Alina recognizes the power both in being a mentor and staying perpetually open to mentoring. Progress comes in pieces, she says, and it takes a network pulling together to identify, sort, and leverage those pieces. Change management is a cornerstone to Alina’s work, helping organizations optimize operations through business information, data analysis, and decision-making support. But none of it works without intentionality, clearly identifying goals and mitigating risks. Productivity means different things to different companies, but there’s always a value-add available if you can get buy-in and stay open to what’s on the horizon. “See change happening,” she says, “and embrace new waves of change in

Aditya will talk to us about helping marketing and sales teams evolve and stay updated on new trends by bringing together real-world insights. He will also help us understand the achievements of ratings and what is beyond the quadrants. Connect Aditya Modi | Follow us on LinkedIn

Andres Ceballos is a trusted district advisor and manages initiators and programs that focus on Salesforce's portfolio growth and adoption. In this episode, Andres shares his experience in leadership roles from the past 20 years. He defines the difference between a mentor and a leader, highlights the significance of inner work, details how to change our thought process effectively. Connect Andres Ceballos | Follow us on LinkedIn

This episode of Sunny Side Up highlights a pioneering Chief Data Officer who shares what the role means and why it has grown increasingly important within the enterprise. Inderpal Bhandari, named Chief Data Officer of the Year 2017 by the CDO Club, has moved through several roles at IBM, but none has been more transformational than his current C-suite presence as CDO. He and his teams have been empowered to accomplish in-house at IBM what companies of all sizes want most to see: Growth in the top line, expansion of the bottom line, and overall risk reduction. Data transformation, AI, and cybersecurity are the three main pillars for getting there. With his methodology, Inderpal has found ways not only to leverage data in myriad ways but also to create transformation within the IBM culture – that adoption piece without which, says Inderpal, there can be no meaningful or sustainable implementation. You’ll enjoy Inderpal’s front-line observations and some recommended resources for learning yet more about what’s o

Call it what you like: Paradigm Shift, Transformation, Revolution. Whatever the term, the pandemic has prompted a global realignment. The concept of remote work, which used to be doled out reluctantly, overnight became the new standard. This episode of Sunny Side Up invites guest Jo Powell to assess the results. Change has been perhaps most profound among public institutions once known as lumbering and committee-heavy. Thanks to Covid19, the landscape changed completely. Decision-making was accelerated, and deployment of resources is agile by necessity. Technology was leveraged to improve data management and quality of life. Enjoy this conversation about the future of remote work in a world that will never go back entirely to business as usual. Jo is among those embracing change, getting creative, and adapting in ways that will benefit workers and organizations alike. Connect Jo Powell | Follow us on LinkedIn

Aaron talks about the competitive market space and how to adapt and adjust to the fast pace B2B market changes to stay ahead in the game. He explains how to build a revamping go-to-market strategy, design a successful marketing campaign to promote your products, and boost sales. Aaron also shares some of his personal experiences, use cases, and tips to speed up with the evolving changes. Connect Aaron George | Follow us on LinkedIn

Andy Niemann will discuss with us how the world has changed for B2B since the pandemic, the challenges, and how to overcome these challenges in new innovative ways. Connect Andy Niemann | Follow us on LinkedIn

Eduardo will be talking to us on starting and accelerating digital transformation initiatives and will walk us through how we help small and large-scale companies to go through the digital transformation. Connect Eduardo de Carvalho | Follow us on LinkedIn

Jieun Chung will be discussing with us the art of succeeding events, constant pushback and will take us through the journey of her career path and what the challenges she faced and how she successfully overcame them. She will talk about the cultural norms she has come across and how one can adapt and learn new things. Connect Jieun Chung | Follow us on LinkedIn

Giorgia Favaretto today will explain to us how to think on your feet and pivot on a dime and learn how to survive a real crisis, sharing her experience on how to offer value to customers, how to communicate and support them. She also talks about managing clients and employees and encouraging them to practice a work-life balance. Connect Giorgia Favaretto | Follow us on LinkedIn

Ratul Sengupta today will be discussing with us about driving business impact using data from a customer experience perspective, solutions that empower brands to build strong relationships with their end customers through meaningful connections that boost their brand value that create shareholder value. ​​He also talks about how to create innovative solutions and reduce customer effort driving a higher customer experience engagement plan. Connect Ratul Sengupta | Follow us on LinkedIn

Mark Turner explains go-to-market planning for a brand new division with zero historical data. How do we upscale a business using the first-party intent data and analyze customer behavior patterns to understand their pain points and offer solutions? Connect Mark Turner  | Follow us on LinkedIn

This episode of the Sunny Side Up podcast packs the whole expanse of technology into a conversation with one of the industry’s longtime innovators. George Gatsis, who has been leading seamless enterprise-level business and digital transformations dating back to the days of mainframe computing. He shares his insights on ever-accelerating rates of tech development as well as the impacts of AI, big data, and machine learning – all nascent but here to stay. Also, George suggests two critical elements to effectively managing remote workplace environments (trust and metrics) and recommends some valuable reading you’ll want to check out. Connect George Gatsis | Follow us on LinkedIn

The first draft of anything is going to be imperfect, but that’s the point! This episode of Sunny Side Up features Claudia Virlanuta, CEO at Edlitera, who wants to empower even the least technical of executives to leverage data science and analytics. It starts, however, with a willingness to feel foolish or even outright fail. While some 81% of executives believe big data is key to enterprise leadership, a majority of the same sample group believe themselves to be ill-equipped and most likely unable to acquire the necessary tool kit. Not true! Claudia lists the barriers to effective data adoption and management – as well as some very concrete strategies for removing those stumbling blocks. Some of Claudia’s solutions require no more than enlisting help from team members or taking a couple of basic online courses to become conversant on your own. A big part of leveraging data science is creating and supporting its integration within the workplace culture. And you don’t have to have a Ph.D. to do that. Just be

Acquisitions can be anxiety-provoking on many levels, but there are ways in which marketing has a very specific (and useful) role to play in smoothing the way. This episode of Sunny Side Up features Stacy West, Chief Marketing Officer at insight software, who shares some of the tools she has developed to facilitate the M&A process. With some 20 acquisitions in the past three years alone, insight into both organic and inorganic growth. The goal is to be a world-class company fueled by both the acquisition of companies and the extension and growth of their products. Stacy explains how marketing due diligence requires its own set of metrics to measure a target’s maturity, depth of resources, and ability to integrate out of the gate. She also recommends tactics for team-building and creating a sense of transparency that helps unsettled employees stay focused on big-picture unity and how they can contribute. And, speaking of contributions, the single most important thing that individuals at any level of the ma

This episode of the Sunny Side Up podcast features a sales pro who got his start in an unlikely place. Corey Kleinbauer, a Boston-based sales executive with SAS, planned a career in the mental health space. When he decided to switch his focus to sales, it turned out that the psychology skill sets he’d studied transferred with great results. As VP of Sales, Corey has developed and led a team producing double-digit growth year over year. He shares with us valuable insights about how to develop meaningful trusted advisory relationships, turn curtailed pandemic travel to the best advantage and make inroads with C-suite executives through hustle, homework, curiosity, and empathy. Connect Corey Kleinbauer | Follow us on LinkedIn

This episode of the Sunny Side Up Podcast features Kristopher Clark, a Silicon Valley visionary who has built his career on the results-oriented product, project, and business relationship management for consumer-facing products. He’s uniquely positioned to talk about something top-of-mind for companies across every enterprise sector: Digital Adoption. The conversation covers both tactical and strategic issues, including insights from Kristopher’s current work as Head of Digital Adoption & Content at ServiceNow and throughout a career that has also encompassed important roles at Allergan, Genentech, and Silicon Chef. He has a passion for what he does that will inspire you to reconsider all things Digital Adoption – and more! Connect Kristopher Clark | Follow us on LinkedIn