The strategic marketing skills and experience you need, when you need them

Be Bold. Be Brave. Believe.

An independent qualitative research study with 30+ CMOs, that brings into focus the key challenges they are facing today and reveals the future marketing functions they want to build.

A lot has changed – and continues to change – in marketing, but our talent models haven’t kept pace.

Read our research report to see what CMOs are doing to overcome their greatest pain points and how talent can be deployed to tackle these challenges and accelerate impact.

We help brands and businesses solve problems faster and accelerate their growth through a community of strategic independent marketing leaders.

Open Talent

We’re not a consultancy or an agency.

We’re a community of strategic independent marketers working as part of your team to both do great work, and land great work.

Heads not Overheads

The skills and experience you need, when you need them.

No employment commitment or expensive agency structures and lengthy processes.

Diverse Perspectives

Our community spans industries, geographies and disciplines, combining deep experience with fresh thinking.

We get things moving on strategic agendas that need additional bandwidth or focused attention.

We explore new opportunities that go beyond the capabilities or experience of your in-house team.

We help tackle tricky problems when multiple brains are better than one.

We step in when you’re overwhelmed with ‘thinking’ and need to turn insight into strategy and action.

What we do

Testimonials

“We engaged NEON Leaders for their knowledge, insight and strategic direction to develop our brand portfolio strategy. NEON’s deep understanding of brands and brand positioning complemented the rich in-house knowledge in our research and marketing teams. The team at NEON brought experience, expertise and a collaborative approach – developing a portfolio architecture for our brands and stretching our teams with new thinking and perspectives to test going forwards.”

Fiona TomlinSVP GM Snacks Western Europe, PepsiCo

“We always get a fantastic quality of insight and strategic thinking in response to our challenges, that more often than not takes us in a different direction to where we thought we wanted or needed to go. The approach to work closely with the marketing leadership team and wider members of our marketing department means everything we have done with NEON has felt like a team effort. My team and I find the time we spend working together, whether as a group or 1:1, is incredibly valuable for the project delivery, the fresh perspective that we receive and our own learning and development.”

Richard PashUK Chief Customer Officer, Zurich Insurance

“It felt like we first spoke just yesterday and now we have a clear direction which my regional team worked together with NEON to create. We’ve been able to use the output immediately with our Asia executive leadership team. NEON Leaders are an accelerator, and are able to help bring strategic focus and build momentum when needed. When we all have so much to do, they are a valuable resource of the people, skills and experience to help you when you need it.”

Magda KotekCMO Asia Pacific at Invesco

“As we’re building a new business and brand, working with NEON Leaders has taken the pressure off needing to jump into hiring people and means we can be clear on our strategy before establishing our structure and team. The ability to dial up and dial down resource as we need it and tap into a wide range of skill sets and local knowledge has been invaluable to helping us to move forward at pace.”

Alex BrittainSVP International, Perfect Day USA

A new way of working designed for the needs of businesses and talent today

Today’s business needs are not always best served by yesterday’s talent models. The skills, perspectives and experiences to answer one challenge are likely different to those needed to answer the next. The changing customer landscape demands agility and diverse thinking.

At the same time there is a growing pool of experienced, independent talent. No longer the domain of young freelancers or retired executives, this is an exciting and diverse group seeking to continue to deliver, develop and advance in their careers whilst working in a different way.

We accelerate the impact of marketing, enabling our clients and independent talent to thrive.

Work with an exciting and dynamic collective of marketing leaders

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