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103 Genuine Marketing Thought Leaders To Follow

Confession time.

When I see a post with a title like, 103 Genuine Marketing Thought Leaders To Follow, my heart sinks. A part of me really wants to be on the list. A part of me is already a bit bitter, because I’m worried that I may have been left out. A part of me could care less about lists like this, because I know that I’m really doing the work (as Seth Godin and Steven Pressfield call it). A part of me wants others to appreciate the work that I do. A part of me knows that I don’t put in the self-promotion time that many of my peers do to get attention. A part of me wonders what I have to do, if the work that I’ve done to date didn’t get me on a list over one hundred other folks. It’s a mixed bag a personal emotions. Still, my heart does skip a beat, as I click through these types of articles.

From panic to warmth.

So, here I go clicking through this well-designed and well-written SlideShare. I see a lot of familiar faces. Friends. Peers. People whose work I deeply respect. Then, on slide 23, my heart really does skip a beat and sink all at once. There’s my picture. It’s a whole page. The headline: “The Mastermind… A Thought Leader to Thought Leaders.” I could have never have expected this. So, a super huge thanks to Matthew Sweezey for pulling this together (and being so kind to me). Matthew is the Principal of Marketing Insights for Salesforce, and widely regarded as one of the top minds on the future of marketing. It’s one thing to make this list… it’s another to be on Matthew’s radar.

You should check this out.

Don’t worry, you can skip over slide 23, I won’t be offended. Still, this deck is chock full of super-interesting people that you really should follow. Many of them have been featured on Six Pixels of Separation – The Mirum Podcast. Many of them are about to be invited either back on, or for the first time. This is a great checklist of who’s doing stuff in marketing today.

Thanks, Matthew. Check it out here: 103 Genuine Marketing Thought Leaders.

103 Genuine Marketing Thought Leaders from Mathew Sweezey

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.