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Kristi Maynor

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Kristi Maynor leads the firm’s Global Consumer Practice with a focus on CEO and Board Succession, Assessment and Development, Digital Transformation and Customer Centricity across the C-suite. The Consumer Practice includes Consumer Products, B2C Digital Ecommerce, Retail, Restaurants, Apparel, Luxury, Media, Gaming & Entertainment. She also previously led the firm’s Global Chief Marketing Officer Practice. She is passionate about coaching and advising executives and teams on culture and leadership enabling these leaders best prepare them to accelerate impact and readiness for future roles.

The business world is rapidly transforming and leadership potential is more important than ever. The easy answer isn’t always the right answer. I love deeply considering a client’s needs to cultivate transformational leaders.

Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Kristi built her career at the intersection of consumer brands and technology while working with Procter & Gamble, Mary Kay, JCPenney and one of the first digital agencies, advising Fortune 500 on ecommerce and digital transformation capabilities while serving Fortune 500 clients such as Coca-Cola, P&G, Clorox, Samsung and Yum!.

Kristi has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern State University. She cares deeply about identifying and developing potential. She gets to practice this with her two sons and daughter, teaching them gratitude, empathy, and giving back.

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In Conversation with George Felix, Chief Marketing Officer of Pizza Hut

In Conversation with George Felix, Chief Marketing Officer of Pizza Hut

Kristi Maynor spoke with George Felix, Chief Marketing Officer of Pizza Hut, about his experience leading a brand through a crisis and what it… Read more

In Conversation with Ann Mukherjee, CEO Pernod Ricard North America

In Conversation with Ann Mukherjee, CEO Pernod Ricard North America

Kristi Maynor spoke with Ann Mukherjee, CEO Pernod Ricard North America, on marketing’s responsibility to be bold, what the future of marketing looks like,… Read more

CPG’s Talent Lens is Expanding—Outside of the Industry

CPG’s Talent Lens is Expanding—Outside of the Industry

CPG companies may need to recruit from outside of the industry to capitalize on recent changes in consumer purchase behaviors, to optimize customer experience,… Read more

2020 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit: A New Brand Framework Built on Social Action

2020 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit: A New Brand Framework Built on Social Action

The 10th anniversary Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit was unlike any other — a virtual setting that brought more attendees than ever before and content… Read more

How Retail HR Leaders Are Navigating a New Normal During the COVID-19 Pandemic

How Retail HR Leaders Are Navigating a New Normal During the COVID-19 Pandemic

We virtually gathered HR leaders of retail companies to share how they are handling the crisis—from benefits for part-time workers, to emergency succession planning,… Read more

As COVID-19 Tests C-level Mettle, Change Management Takes Center Stage

As COVID-19 Tests C-level Mettle, Change Management Takes Center Stage

Kristi Maynor talks about the importance of purpose, focus, and leaders who step up and help the retail industry emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

Why You Should Embrace the Lateral Move in Your Career

Why You Should Embrace the Lateral Move in Your Career

At the 2019 Kellogg Leadership Summit, Intuit's Global CMO shares her career journey and her experience working on both the consumer and tech side. Read more

The Three Stages of Brand Purpose

The Three Stages of Brand Purpose

At the 2019 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit, Egon Zehnder's Kristi Maynor sat down with Kellogg Professor Jim Stengel to discuss the future of brand… Read more

Egon Zehnder at the 2019 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

Egon Zehnder at the 2019 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

At the ninth annual Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit, marketing leaders discussed the topic of growth. Read more

You Can Take The M Out Of CMO But Your Marketing Skills Remain Steadfast To A Changing Role

You Can Take The M Out Of CMO But Your Marketing Skills Remain Steadfast To A Changing Role

Change is nothing new to the marketing function. In her latest Forbes piece, Egon Zehnder's Kristi Maynor discusses the necessary skills and traits for… Read more

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

Egon Zehnder is a founding partner of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit. Read more

To Accelerate CEO Diversity, Look to CMOs

To Accelerate CEO Diversity, Look to CMOs

Egon Zehnder’s Kristi Maynor discusses which C-Suite role exhibits key leadership factors most closely to the CEO. Read more

Transformation At The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

Transformation At The Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

In her latest Forbes CMO Summit article, Kristi Maynor shares stories of personal transformation, business transformation and the cultural shift towards rewarding risk discussed… Read more

Egon Zehnder at the 2018 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

Egon Zehnder at the 2018 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit

As CMOs continue to face obstacles in the dynamic business world, it’s important to remember the primary takeaways, gleaned while surrounded by peers who… Read more

Interview with Chief Marketing Officer, GoFundMe

Interview with Chief Marketing Officer, GoFundMe

Egon Zehnder's Kristi Maynor spoke with GoFundMe's CMO Raquel Rozas at the 2018 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit. Read more

Interview with Kellogg Professor Jim Stengel

Interview with Kellogg Professor Jim Stengel

Egon Zehnder's Kristi Maynor spoke with former CMO of Procter & Gamble and current Kellogg professor Jim Stengel at the 2018 Kellogg Marketing Leadership… Read more

Interview with President, KFC United States

Interview with President, KFC United States

Egon Zehnder's Kristi Maynor spoke with KFC U.S. President Kevin Hochman at the 2018 Kellogg Marketing Leadership Summit. Read more

Defining the Modern Marketer: The Hourglass Imperative

Defining the Modern Marketer: The Hourglass Imperative

Defining and then finding the modern marketer is a task we face every day. Consider the hourglass. It is an iconic joining of equals… Read more

Forbes — CMO Next 2018: 50 Marketing Chiefs Who Are Redefining The Role And Shaping The Future

Forbes — CMO Next 2018: 50 Marketing Chiefs Who Are Redefining The Role And Shaping The Future

The CMO role is one of the most dynamic, challenging, exhilarating, complex, nuanced and powerful in the C-suite. Leader of Egon Zehnder's CMO Practice… Read more

The Talent Innovation Formula for Transformational Marketing

The Talent Innovation Formula for Transformational Marketing

What is the right balance between traditionalists and change makers? In our experience, we’ve found the formula used by innovation leaders can also create… Read more

What CXOs Think of Marketing:

What CXOs Think of Marketing:

At more and more organizations, marketing has become firmly established as a C-suite function. Read more

Renegade Thinkers Unite – Courage: Why Any CMO Job Description Is Incomplete Without It.

Renegade Thinkers Unite – Courage: Why Any CMO Job Description Is Incomplete Without It.

Kristi Maynor, Head of the U.S. CMO and Digital Transformation Practice at Egon Zehnder, joined Drew Neisser on his Renegade Thinkers Unite podcast to… Read more

NYC Salary History Ban is Positive Momentum, but We Must do More to Equalize Gender Pay

NYC Salary History Ban is Positive Momentum, but We Must do More to Equalize Gender Pay

New York City has become the latest in the list of cities and states that are implementing new policies directly aimed at leveling the… Read more

What We Heard – Never Waste a Crisis

What We Heard – Never Waste a Crisis

The combination of overlapping social media networks with passionate and vigilant consumers means that chief marketing officers and chief communications officers are never more… Read more

AdAge - CMOs Unlock Growth by Building Agile Organisations

AdAge - CMOs Unlock Growth by Building Agile Organisations

In an increasingly disruptive world the key challenge facing CMOs is to create an agile organization that will help individuals to leverage their full… Read more

How to Lead an Agile Organization

How to Lead an Agile Organization

For some time now, leaders from across industries and geographies have been operating in an uncertain and volatile environment. And while we watch the… Read more

Procter & Google? The Marketing Academy of Tomorrow Takes Shape

Procter & Google? The Marketing Academy of Tomorrow Takes Shape

For a generation, Procter & Gamble has been more than an icon of consumer packaged goods—it’s been the West Point of marketing, producing hundreds… Read more

Cybersecurity Dinner 2015

Cybersecurity Dinner 2015

In February 2015, President Obama, speaking at a White House Summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection, declared that the Internet has become a sort… Read more

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