Mentorship for heads of marketing
You own the plan, the team and the number. Get a senior perspective on the decisions that are hard to work through inside your own company.
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Miranda Gowlland
5.0 · +11 more
Blaine
Founder · Permit Hound
"I don't want to walk through an uncleared minefield without someone who has walked it before."
Hamel Shah
Co-Founder · CarrotsAndCake
"GrowthMentor enables us to swiftly get a world-class expert to give us guidance on any marketing issue or…"
Lena Sesardic
Product Manager
"Knowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world."
Minh
Solo Founder · SEOmatic
"I like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the…"
Nicola Rubino
Growth Marketing Consultant · nicorubino
"It gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys…"
Annie Chen
Head of Marketing · DOWN Dating App
"Sometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when…"
Carlos Terol
Co-Founder · Bagmaya
"I enjoy having pretty much instant access to a pool of worldwide, expert mentors who are keen to share their…"
Luka Karsten Breitig
Co-Founder · The Happy Beavers
"Imagine a world where everything you read was written by a subject-matter expert."
Flora Bui
Co-Founder · Acie
"My favorite thing about GrowthMentor is how it allows me to expand my network globally in a very short time…"
Maria Ledentsova
Digital Marketing Manager · magier
"Whatever problem I have, there's a friendly and incredibly helpful mentor ready to help."
Kate Bojkov
Head of Growth · EmbedSocial
"How quick and easy I can find somebody who had my problem and is willing to talk with me and openly share…"
Supriya Agarwal
Co-founder · BiosectRx
"Being able to connect with any expert across the globe at the click of a button. No network or previous…"
Anastasia Rubleva
Head of Growth · Rapid Dev
"I love the ability to receive valuable feedback from mentors who have been in the industry for decades."
Andrew McBurney
CEO & Co-founder · Review Robin
"You should cut out 99% of the things that you're thinking about."
The mentors, selected for this decision.
12 featured mentors
Why this mentor
Miranda has worked as a global CMO and rebuilt marketing functions, offering a senior sounding board for leadership, hiring and defending strategic choices.
Peter Murphy Lewis
🕸️Fractional Chief Marketing Officer | 📺 TV Host | 🎧 Podcaster |🐒 CSO Zoo | Founder 🚲 | 👠Ultra-Marathoner
Why this mentor
Peter has scaled a marketing team and coached managers, offering an executive perspective on team structure, leadership and measuring marketing performance.
Yuliya Andreyuk
Fractional CMO | PLG & Commercial Strategist | Revenue Architecture & Monetization | Scaling B2B Startups
Why this mentor
Yuliya combines commercial growth leadership with experience building international marketing teams, helping you connect team decisions with pricing, positioning and revenue goals.
Serhat Hocazade
3x founding marketing hire | Positioning, pipeline, paid ads, AI for marketing teams | ex Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn
Why this mentor
Serhat has built several marketing and revenue organisations, bringing practical experience to hiring plans, agency decisions and the responsibilities your team should own.
Lakshmi Harikumar
Growth Marketing Leader with 18+ years in B2B SaaS | Marketer @ startups to Enterprises
Why this mentor
Lakshmi has led global product marketing teams and supported SaaS growth at different stages, offering perspective on team structure, positioning and go-to-market priorities.
Jahnavi Ray
Head of Growth Marketing/ Fractional CMO, Marketing Mentor, Growth Coach
Why this mentor
Jahnavi brings B2B marketing leadership and department-building experience, helping you connect hiring plans, demand generation and funnel targets to revenue expectations.
Eric Bogard
3x Marketing Leader | SaaS GTM & Growth Architect | Scaling Demand, Pipeline & Revenue 🚀
Why this mentor
Eric brings experience leading SaaS marketing across product-led and sales-led businesses, offering a senior perspective on go-to-market strategy and pipeline development.
Pablo Asensio
Fractional CGO/CMO | Growth and Marketing leader | GTM | PLG | Fintech
Why this mentor
Pablo has led growth at head and executive level, built teams and coached their members, making him useful for priorities and performance discussions.
Guy Fitzpatrick
Fractional CMO for B2B & Consumer Tech (Seed to Series C) | Prev. Mozilla, heycater! & Kitchen Stories
Why this mentor
Guy has built marketing teams and served as a fractional CMO, giving you a peer perspective on team design and coherent growth strategy.
Why this mentor
Tom has led teams as an in-house CMO, founder and agency partner, helping you work through team ownership and how strategy becomes execution.
Eugen Ilie
Growth Marketing | Digital Marketing | Revenue Growth | 20+ Years of Experience
Why this mentor
Eugen brings extensive growth marketing experience across product and analytics, helping you connect marketing priorities with retention, revenue and unit economics.
Erika Hakala
Demand engine builder for scaling B2B SaaS | Founder & board advisor | ex-Onfido, Speechmatics, Tinybird
Why this mentor
Erika has built demand generation inside scaling B2B SaaS companies, helping marketing leaders align channel investment, sales expectations and revenue targets.
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A sounding board for marketing leadership
Leading marketing means making decisions across channels, people and company expectations. You may have strong specialists around you and still want an experienced peer to challenge the plan before you take it to the CEO or commit the budget.
Bring a decision with consequences: the next hire, a change in priorities, an ambitious pipeline target or a disagreement about what marketing should own. The discussion should build on the expertise you already have.
Connect the marketing plan to business expectations
Start with the commercial goal and the assumptions behind it. Which customers, conversion rates and sales capacity does the plan rely on? Where do marketing, sales and finance see the situation differently?
Bring a concise view of your targets, results, team and constraints. A mentor can help you question the logic, communicate the trade-offs and identify which assumptions need agreement before the team commits to delivery.
Work through team and resource decisions
A leadership problem can look like a channel problem. A missing skill, an unclear owner or too many priorities may be preventing a capable team from making progress. Discuss what each role needs to accomplish and what you can realistically support.
Use the session to compare hiring, agency support and changes in scope. Be explicit about what you would stop or delay to make room. You should leave with a decision you can explain to the people responsible for carrying it out.
Choose experience that matches your remit
Choose a mentor who has held comparable responsibility in a relevant business model. Building a B2B pipeline, leading consumer growth and managing a global product marketing team require different experience. The explanations above help you find that fit.
You can bring a focused question or return to review what happened after a decision. Agree on any ongoing arrangement with the mentor. A useful relationship gives you candid perspective while you retain ownership of your team and strategy.
People who were exactly where you are.
GrowthMentor enables us to swiftly get a world-class expert to give us guidance on any marketing issue or question in a matter of days.
Hamel Shah · Co-Founder
Read Hamel's storyKnowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world.
Lena Sesardic · Product Manager
Read Lena's storyI like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the right track.
Minh · Solo Founder
Read Minh's storyIt gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys alone.
Nicola Rubino · Growth Marketing Consultant
Read Nicola's storySometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when they were in my situation.
Annie Chen · Head of Marketing
Read Annie's storyI enjoy having pretty much instant access to a pool of worldwide, expert mentors who are keen to share their expertise and help others.
Carlos Terol · Co-Founder
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The focus is on decisions that come with leading the function: priorities, team structure, budgets and commercial accountability. Share your current remit and the decision you need to make, then choose a mentor with relevant leadership experience so you can work beyond the basics.
Bring the decision, the evidence and the assumptions behind your recommendation. A mentor can challenge the reasoning and help you explain trade-offs clearly. Keep sensitive company information within your own sharing rules, and remove details that are unnecessary for the discussion.
Bring the definitions, handoff points and conversion data each team uses. Discuss where ownership or expectations diverge before debating channel performance. An experienced mentor can help you prepare a more concrete conversation about shared goals, responsibilities and what to measure next.
Yes, bring the outcomes the team needs to deliver, the skills you already have and the gaps you see. A mentor with team-building experience can help examine role scope and hiring priorities. Discuss sensitive people issues without sharing unnecessary identifying details.
A session can help you review the expectations you have inherited, your proposed priorities and the stakeholder relationships you need to establish. Bring what you have learned so far. Focus on the decisions that need early agreement before committing the team to a broad plan.
You can discuss returning to a mentor to review decisions and what happened after them. Confirm their availability and agree on expectations together. Bring a focused question each time, so the relationship stays useful as your team, targets and responsibilities change.
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