Q&A: Sherilyn Shackell, Founder & CEO, The Marketing Academy
This Q&A series from Suzie Walker Executive Search shares wisdom and insights from senior leaders for the benefit of both clients and candidates.
About Sherilyn Shackell
After 20 years as a headhunter, Sherilyn used her passion for inspiring and developing leadership capability to launch The Marketing Academy. Established in 2010, The Marketing Academy is a non-profit organisation that inspires and develops talent at every level in marketing, media, and communications; from emerging leaders to CMOs. The Marketing Academy is financially supported by some of the industry’s biggest brands, who sponsor each highly selective program. Some of the most successful CMOs we have worked with have benefitted from The Marketing Academy’s Fellowship program, enabling the marketing leaders of today to become the CEOs of tomorrow.
Sherilyn has also been the Chair of the Board of Trustees for The Marketing Academy Foundation since March 2018 – a charity finding and funding first jobs in the marketing industries for young adults from challenging and diverse backgrounds. Their apprenticeship program funds 12-month work placements within brands and agencies.
Sherilyn has spoken at many conferences, has worked with individuals and companies as a business coach, and runs leadership programmes for senior teams in all sectors. She has also written about leadership, talent engagement and development in articles for Marketing Week, The Sunday Times, and The Telegraph, to name but a few.
In this inspiring interview, Sherilyn also talks about The Marketing Academy's incredible Golden Ticket, offering marketers who have been made redundant or are working on a freelance basis FREE access to their Virtual Campus Program for 12 months. You can apply here today: https://themarketingacademy.org/goldenticket
Sherilyn, thank you so much for joining us today.
We hope you enjoy this thoughtful and insightful conversation as much as we did.
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