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Chris serves CMO & Marketing Leadership Professionals as well as agency leaders. He is a leading expert on modern brand strategy, digital-era advertising, and the evolving agency landscape.
Chris has more than 17 years of experience in management consulting and advertising. He helps marketers navigate emerging media and technology, transform their advertising strategy, and adapt their organizations for the digital age. Clients such as Facebook, L'Oreal, Kraft Foods, HP, and IBM have turned to Chris for his thought leadership. Additionally, he has worked across a broad spectrum of agencies — including holding companies such as Omnicom and WPP, network agencies such as JWT and DDB, and digital agencies such as Digitas, Rosetta, VML, and Blast Radius — to improve their strategic capabilities, competitive positioning, and new business strategies.
Prior to Forrester, Chris worked in advertising for more than eight years, developing brand strategies and discovering breakthrough consumer insights for clients such as Mars, Michelin, Novartis, and Wachovia. Chris started his career as a management consultant for Accenture, where he developed customer experience and marketing technology strategies for clients such as AT&T and Bell South.
Chris is a member of The Wharton School's Future of Advertising project. He is also a regular contributor to industry publications and events, including Advertising Age CMO Strategy and the ANA.
Chris received an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.A. in English from Bucknell University.
Brand Engagement The Consumer Way
The report "Brand Engagement The Consumer Way," originally written for market insights professionals, highlights key behaviors that today's US online consumers exhibit when they engage with companies...

Executive Overview: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook
In the 21st century, empowered consumers have steered brand marketing into foreign terrain — they have taken the driver's seat and told brands where, when, and how they want to be interacted...

Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer
As Delta Air Lines can attest, there is perhaps no industry as susceptible to empowered consumers as the travel industry. Travelers' growing use of social media, strong adoption of smartphones, and...
Continuous Improvement: The Social Intelligence Playbook
If you represent a large consumer brand, consider a social intelligence command center — a dedicated resource for listening to the groundswell. A command center like this can improve your...
Forrester updated its Email Marketing Review (EMR) methodology to reflect interactive media changes that affect email marketing efficiency and relevance. As with our past email review methodologies,...
Delivering Utility At Speed To Perpetually Connected Customers
Customers are in the midst of a total mind shift. As a result of their perpetual mobile connections, their expectations have changed. They're not interested in your messaging and logos. They want...
A Four-Phase Approach To Preparing To Engage With Your Customers
Many marketers are launching communities to engage their customers in an authentic dialogue around their companies, brands, and products. However, once they've launched, brands often find that they...
How To Diagnose And Treat Your Brand's Resilience And Responsiveness
CMOs who remain detached from the everyday pulse of consumer sentiment are putting their brands at great risk. A brand's health is more vulnerable in the digital age as consumer opinion travels...
See Through The Myths, And Tap Games As A Medium For Marketing
Are you looking to deliver interactive, integrated marketing messages and advertising to reach an attractive, broad base of users in a medium where emotional response is predictable and guaranteed?...

Strategic Plan: The Open Innovation Playbook
Despite the fact that economists, consultants, and business experts have been advocating for open innovation for more than a decade, product strategists indicate that most firms continue to struggle...

Medallia And MarketTools Lead With Strong Performers Close Behind
In Forrester's 76-criteria evaluation of enterprise feedback management (EFM) satisfaction and loyalty solutions, we found that Medallia and MarketTools led the pack with comprehensive software...
Best Practices From 14 Web Site Brand Reviews Across Three Industries
In 2010, Forrester reviewed the Web site brand experience of sites in industries as diverse as automotive, hotels, and skin care. An analysis of the results across industries surfaced common...
Strategic Plan: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook
The customer life cycle provides a better explanation of modern marketing than does the traditional marketing funnel, but most marketers have not yet moved their organizations to the customer life...
Vision: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Listening platforms power marketers by analyzing their brands, products, and customers across social media channels. But although listening platforms make managing social data possible, marketers...

Processes: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook
Many companies are well on their way to delivering a top-notch brand experience for their demanding customers. CMO and marketing leadership professionals can learn from the experiences and processes...
Work With Key Collaborators To Identify And Engage Influencers
Interactive marketers are often responsible for influencer marketing programs, particularly within business-to-consumer (B2C) organizations. But identifying and engaging influencers is both complex...
Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation
After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...
Quantifying The Impact Of A Facebook Fan On Brand Interactions
Quantifying the impact of a Facebook fan can be difficult and elusive for marketers. Forrester uses statistical modeling to analyze the effect of being a Facebook fan on brands. The model gives...
