• Episode 143 – Building brands with soul with guest Siew Ting Foo: Top CMO’s insight on human-centric brand-building and leadership

  • Feb 17 2025
  • Length: 29 mins
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Episode 143 – Building brands with soul with guest Siew Ting Foo: Top CMO’s insight on human-centric brand-building and leadership

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  • Episode #143. Today’s topic is a technical and leadership skill exploring building and leading brands with soul, which doesn’t just arise from the company strategy or tactical execution but from the passion, love, and responsibility of the leaders and people in the business.  Abby’s guest who is passionate about this topic and author of ‘Building Brands With Soul’ is Siew Ting Foo. An impactful and influential marketing leader, Siew Ting is named consecutively, six times as Asia's most purposeful and influential CMO, and named Asia and China's top woman leader, having worked on brands including Unilever, Mars, Diageo, Fonterra and most recently, HP. In this episode, Siew Ting shares her definition and characteristics of brands with soul and why it’s important, the five pillars, human-centric leadership, global brands to local markets and how she connects to her team through ‘Friday emails’. Plus Siew Ting’s career highs and lows and advice for marketers of tomorrow. 00:00:00 Welcome and introduction to ‘building brands with soul’ 00:03:45 The Five Pillars of Brands with Soul 00:05:13 Writing the Book for future leaders 00:06:29 Why is Human Centricity important 00:09:15 Siew Ting’s Personal Discovery and Purpose 00:11:00 First 100 Days Framework 00:15:21 How to Create Global Brands with Local Soul 00:19:49 Building Internal Belief 00:22:27 Authentic Leadership through Friday Emails 00:25:51 Personal Career Highs and Lows 00:27:36 Advice for Future Marketers Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn Guest: Siew Ting Foo | LinkedIn The Whole Marketer podcast is here to support and empower the people behind brands and businesses with the latest technical tools, soft and leadership skills and personal understanding for a fulfilling marketing career and life as a whole. For more info go to www.thewholemarketer.com
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