The Emerging CMO: Strategic Marketing Leadership
Transform marketing in your organization with strategic frameworks, customer-centric innovation, and persuasive communication and leadership skills.
Apply By July 3, 2026
Start Date August 16, 2026
Lead a more customer-focused and competitive organization.
With an ever-expanding mandate, today’s CMOs need to own the customer experience, think strategically, and communicate with purpose. This one-week program will offer you innovation, marketing strategy, and leadership skills to help you reach the C-suite and thrive. You’ll experience cutting-edge empirical research, innovative Silicon Valley thinking, and proven Stanford GSB strategic frameworks. All designed to help you maximize satisfaction for your customers and profit for your company.
Key Benefits
- Develop the marketing strategy frameworks, innovative approaches, and visionary leadership required in the C-suite.
- Develop strategic marketing management frameworks that drive your company’s growth and empower a customer-centric culture.
- Understand how customer psychology and storytelling can influence and advance your marketing and communications efforts.
- Learn how data analytics can uncover customer insights and shape strategy.
- Enhance communication and leadership skills to get buy-in at the C-suite level and across the organization.
- Immerse yourself in Silicon Valley innovation, companies, and ideas.
- Immediately apply new insights and frameworks to real-world marketing challenges.
- Build a strong network of peers with whom you can share ideas and experiences.
Who Should Attend?
- Emerging and experienced CMOs who are motivated to lead and ignite change in their organizations — from any industry and country
- Senior-level marketing leaders with at least eight years of management experience — from any size or stage company — looking for a marketing executive program
Learning in Action
Meet the Faculty Leadership
This program is developed by Jonathan Levav and Baba Shiv, and taught by a team of tenured, strategically focused, cross-disciplinary faculty who are experts in their fields. Together, they bring cutting-edge research, thought leadership, and experiential learning to your program experience.
Jonathan Levav
The King Philanthropies Professor of Marketing
Co-Director, The Emerging CMO: Strategic Marketing Leadership
Baba Shiv
The Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing
Co-Director, The Emerging CMO: Strategic Marketing Leadership
Earn Your Certificate
Upon successful completion of The Emerging CMO: Strategic Marketing Leadership, you will be awarded a Certificate of Completion in recognition of your achievement and the investment you have made in your education and professional development.
Applications due July 3, 2026
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