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The Marketing Leader's Executive Coach - 2-Month Foundation

Mike H.
By Mike H.5.0· 2 reviews30-Year CMO | Coaching Executives on Strategy, Leadership & Marketing

OVERVIEW This focused, two-month coaching engagement is built for marketing and GTM leaders who need to move fast on their single biggest leadership gap; proving marketing's value to the business and getting real traction with the stakeholders who control the budget and the headcount. You'll partner with your coach in four biweekly 1:1 sessions, supported by asynchronous guidance and goal tracking between sessions. This is a tightly scoped engagement, not a full leadership overhaul. It's built to deliver one clear, usable shift in how you lead and how you're seen, in a timeframe that fits around a demanding operating role. The engagement opens with a Marketing Leadership Pulse, lightweight structured feedback from your management and peers, your Sales or RevOps counterpart, and your own team. This gives you a fast, honest read on where you actually stand before you spend a single session on it. What you'll work on: • Marketing Leadership Pulse & Goal Setting. Translate fast-turnaround stakeholder feedback into two or three focused priorities for the engagement. • Marketing Strategy & Revenue Alignment — connect your marketing narrative to pipeline and revenue outcomes in terms your CFO and board actually track. • Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management — navigate the specific dynamics with Sales, RevOps, Product, and the CFO that most often stall a marketing leader's credibility.

What's included

Coaching Time10h–12h of coaching · Live Sessions$2,200
Total$2,200

My coaching style is direct but easy going. I understand how very important your career is to you, and we will have honest back-and-forth about what the data shows about your competitiveness for promotions and/or hiring. My conversation style is warm, non-pressure, and I love to share some good humor about the workplace and life in general. Your outcomes from my coaching matter the most to me. This package is 100% customized, not generic advice that could apply to anyone. I use AI to accelerate the research, never to replace my judgment, so the assessment and coaching you get is grounded in real-time data combined with my decades of interviewing job candidates, hiring good people and deciding who gets promoted. Colleagues and clients typically describe me as refreshingly honest and relaxed.

  • A fast, honest read on how your leadership is actually perceived by the people who matter most to your next budget cycle or promotion
  • A revenue-and-business-aligned narrative you can use for presenting to executives and colleagues
  • Concrete tools for navigating your most difficult cross-functional relationship right now
  • Trusted advisor and thought partner for your real leadership challenges

Meet your expert

Mike H.

Mike H.

30-Year CMO | Coaching Executives on Strategy, Leadership & Marketing

5.02 reviews
60Min coached
3Followers

I've spent 30 years building and leading marketing organizations for B2B and technology companies, including CMO and senior executive roles at Fortune 500 and growth-stage companies across SaaS, enterprise software, IT solutions, data storage, and data analytics—and I bring that experience directly into how I coach. My marketing leadership has contributed directly to four successful company exits: Givful (acquired by iSolved), MEDarchon (acquired by Xsolis), DataFrameworks (acquired by Dell Technologies), and Anacomp's Magnetics Division (acquired by a New York private equity firm). Across these engagements and 25+ years of prior executive leadership, I've built go-to-market strategies from scratch, run marketing operations engineered for top-tier execution, positioned companies for investor and board scrutiny, including pitching venture and private equity firms on Sand Hill Road and in New York, and led and scaled global marketing teams through growth, turnaround, and transition. I've owned P&Ls exceeding $100 million, sat with boards, and been the executive brought in to fix what wasn't working and prepare a company for its next chapter, whether that was a product launch, a turnaround, or an acquisition. Alongside this operating career, I've coached dozens of CEOs, CMOs, and marketing leaders, and spent four years mentoring MBA students at UC San Diego's Rady School of Management, one of whom recently reached back out, twenty years later, to ask me to mentor her again. If you're a founder or rising executive who wants a coach who has actually sat in the seat—who has built the strategy, run the operation, faced the board, and closed the deal—I bring that expertise and enthusiasm directly to you.

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