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Jul 2024
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The Present Of Strategy - WARC's Lena Ro...

Mark Pollard
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Lena Roland is Content Director, Strategy at WARC. This means she's dealing with all of you as she explores and gathers the smart minds in the world and what they're doing to market and advertise effectively.


In this episode, we chat about the present of strategy - what we're both hearing from strategists around the world.


If you'd like to share what you're thinking about the future of strategy, WARC is collecting opinions for their Future Of Strategy report until August 2, 2024.


Find it here: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7914889/Future-of-Strategy-2024


And find Lena on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenaroland/


For details about our upcoming accelerator as well as masterclasses in Los Angeles, Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, and Sydney, visit http://www.sweathead.com

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