Jim Stengel is President/CEO of The Jim Stengel Company, host of The CMO Podcast, author of Grow and Unleashing the Innovators, a Senior Fellow at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and the former Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble. Jim is a former member of the Board for AOL and Motorola.

Jim is widely known for his leadership in the brand purpose movement and for his commitment to building leading-edge marketing capabilities. He is a 2026 AAF Hall of Fame inductee and a 2017 American Marketing Association Hall of Fame inductee. In 2011, he was named to the first-ever Fortune® Executive Dream Team. Jim served as Dean of the Young Marketers Academy at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity from 2011 to 2020 and in 2013 pioneered the CMO Accelerator programme at Cannes Lions.

Jim holds a BA from Franklin & Marshall College and an MBA from The Pennsylvania State University, Smeal School of Business.