The Whole Marketer Ep123 - Empowerment with guest Ellie Norman

The Marketing Society podcast

Episode #123. This episode is leadership skill on empowerment – a fundamental pillar of the Whole Marketer approach in order to create a wave of successful and fulfilled marketers.

Adopting empowerment as a leadership style means building the belief and confidence in the marketers in your care; giving them the clarity, control and confidence to make decisions independently, so they can contribute to and achieve goals.

Abby’s guest expert is Ellie Norman, a trailblazing marketing leader and Chief Communication Officer at Manchester United. Prior to this, Ellie’s roles included Virgin Media and Formula 1, where she was part of the exec team who grew it’s fanbase and share price. She is also NED at The Marketing Society and a Marketing Academy Fellow.

In this episode, Ellie shares her definition of empowerment, clear communications for your team, her reflections on her own leadership style, coaching skills, benefits of empowerment and how to set the culture in a new role.

Plus her career highs and lows and advice for marketers of tomorrow.

Host: Abigail (Abby) Dixon FCIM/ICF | LinkedIn

Guest: Ellie (Tory) Norman | LinkedIn

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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