Great Minds

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Conversation with Leaders Shaping What’s Next Our flagship podcast – now in its 6th season. Great Minds is an executive thought leadership series featuring candid, in-depth conversations with the CEOs, CMOs, founders, innovators and business leaders redefining industries around the world. Each episode explores the ideas, decisions and leadership philosophies driving transformation across business, technology, marketing and culture. Guests share the thinking behind pivotal moments, how they navigate uncertainty, build enduring organizations and prepare for the future. Season 6 recorded live at Advertising Week New York, presented by Salesforce

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    What the Dashboard Can’t Tell You About People Featuring Kerel Cooper of MarketCast

    Joining us is Kerel Cooper, Chief Marketing Officer at MarketCast. Kerel shares why he believes marketers can learn from the strongest consumer brands and how human judgment should guide the use of AI in creative work. We also discuss a question he feels deserves more attention: how do organizations prepare people to become strategic thinkers when AI begins taking over the tasks that fill their working day?

  2. 1d ago

    Would You Share It If You Didn’t Work Here? Featuring Ty Stafford of Hello Party

    Joining us is Ty Stafford, Founder and CEO of Hello Party, whose experience spans making YouTube videos in his dorm room and working at Red Bull Media House. Ty shares how his agency brings creators into the work from the beginning, and how developing Music Therapy with musical comedian Morgan Jay led to a partnership with Live Nation. We also discuss hiring people who can both imagine and make the work, his concerns about AI-generated creative, and his “three beer rule” for helping brands loosen up online without losing who they are.

  3. 1d ago

    What Will the Next Advertising Dollar Deliver? Featuring Jake LeDuke and Khushboo Beniwal of Databricks

    Welcome to Great Minds, recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2026 in the Salesforce Podcast Studio.   Joining us are Jake LeDuke and Khushboo Beniwal, Industry Go-to-Market Leaders for Media, Entertainment, and Advertising at Databricks. With backgrounds spanning agencies, advertising technology, and media businesses, Jake and Khushboo share how they work with both the buyers and sellers of advertising. We discuss where AI agents can help with planning and ad sales, why business and technical teams need to learn from each other, and how to choose a worthwhile problem before choosing the technology to solve it.

  4. 2d ago

    Stop Pitching and Start Building Featuring Laurel Burton of Instrument

    Welcome to Great Minds, recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2026 in the Salesforce Podcast Studio. Joining us is Laurel Burton, CEO of Instrument, a design and technology company whose work includes Nike, Oura, Google, and Nordstrom. Laurel shares why she pushes back on the language of AI efficiency, how Instrument builds technology into its work from day one, and what delivering Nordstrom’s brand tools directly into its team’s hands looked like. We also discuss creative judgment, the responsibility of leading an agency through change, and why she believes the future still depends on people making things together.

  5. 2d ago

    Customer-Led Products with Intentional Leadership Featuring Emeka Okafor Jr. of Dropbox

    Welcome to Great Minds, recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2026 in the Salesforce Podcast Studio. Joining us is Emeka Okafor Jr., Senior Product Director at Dropbox, who leads product for its applied AI division. Emeka shares how his work across research, consulting, Instagram, and Instacart shaped his approach to building products, and how Dropbox is expanding beyond storing files to help customers work with them. We discuss learning from existing user behavior, keeping people in control when AI takes action, and making sure a company’s brand story reflects what its product can deliver.

  6. 3d ago

    When the Customer Sends an Agent with Abhay Singhal of InMobi & InMobi Advertising

    Joining us is Abhay Singhal, co-founder and CEO of InMobi Advertising. Abhay explains what he means by agentic advertising and where early experiments with conversational ads are taking the industry. We discuss the data and infrastructure brands need to prepare, how to set limits on autonomous decisions, and why investment should follow demonstrated results. He also shares why marketers may be expecting too much in the short term while underestimating the longer-term change.

  7. 3d ago

    One YouTube, Too Many Strategies with Leah Malone of Pixability

    Joining us is Leah Malone, Chief Revenue Officer at Pixability, a YouTube advertising intelligence company. Leah shares how brands can find relevant creators beyond subscriber counts, approach YouTube viewing on television screens, and distinguish content improved by AI tools from low-value videos generated entirely by AI. We also discuss which campaign decisions need human judgment and what her experience at The Onion and Foursquare taught her about recognizing a lasting industry shift.

  8. 4d ago

    People Still Buy From People Featuring Madeline Schofield of Salesforce

    Welcome to Great Minds, recorded live at Advertising Week New York 2026 in the Salesforce Podcast Studio. Joining us is Madeline Schofield, VP, Experience Strategy and Executive Marketing at Salesforce, fresh from Dreamforce. Madeline shares how her team designs different experiences for developers and senior executives, assesses success through both data and conversations with sales leaders, and carries the event’s story into the months that follow. We also discuss why curiosity matters when building marketing teams and how AI can free up time for deeper creative and strategic thinking.

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Conversation with Leaders Shaping What’s Next Our flagship podcast – now in its 6th season. Great Minds is an executive thought leadership series featuring candid, in-depth conversations with the CEOs, CMOs, founders, innovators and business leaders redefining industries around the world. Each episode explores the ideas, decisions and leadership philosophies driving transformation across business, technology, marketing and culture. Guests share the thinking behind pivotal moments, how they navigate uncertainty, build enduring organizations and prepare for the future. Season 6 recorded live at Advertising Week New York, presented by Salesforce

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  • Creator
    Advertising Week
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    359
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Advertising Week
  • Show Website
    Great Minds

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