Month: July 2026
Grabación Webinar en Español #30: Innovación Radical en el Retail
Published July 13, 2026 by Elsie Gallegos in
¿Y si hoy entraras a P&G por primera vez?
Definitivamente, no construirías tu marca ni usarías los mismos canales que hace 20 años .
La relación con el retail moderno exige una innovación radical: las mejores prácticas de ayer ya no garantizan el liderazgo de mañana.
¡Acompáñanos en nuestro próximo webinar!
Jorge Saldívar y Guillermo Symonds fundadores de The Retail Community nos comparten las tendencias emergentes y casos reales que están redefiniendo las reglas del juego.
Geneva Chapter: Networking Event
Published July 4, 2026 by Elsie Gallegos in
Thank you so much for joining us and our P&G friends for a high-energy morning full of great ideas and even better company!
Relive the highlights here!
I had the honor of moderating the 𝗣&𝗚 𝗔𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸’𝘀 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity — held at Chez Vayner, with thanks to Gary Vaynerchuk and the VaynerX team for hosting us.
Four trailblazers I deeply respect, each bringing a different kind of intelligence to the table:
⭐ Jim Stengel — Industry Intelligence. Decades of pattern recognition on what drives growth no model has been trained to replicate. Our very own 𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. The Jim Stengel Company
⭐ Laura Knebusch — Commercial Intelligence. Turning AI into brand decisions, P&L impact, and real scale. Georgia-Pacific LLC
⭐ Chad Reynolds — People Intelligence. Understanding people — motivation, behavior — at a depth most marketers assume they already have. Vurvey Labs
⭐ Andrew Swinand — Creative Intelligence. Generating and producing at a speed and scale the industry has never seen. Inspired Thinking Group (ITG)
We didn’t talk about AI as a tool. We talked about AI as a cognitive shift.
Here’s the idea we keep coming back to:
⭐ 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 — the analytical, the operational, the “get me the answer fast” side of marketing — faster than any human can
⭐ 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻. It raises the stakes on it. Taste. Judgment. Empathy. Curiosity. Intuition. The ability to look at what AI hands you and ask, “Is this actually right? Does it make sense?”
I call this the 𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗. The marketers who win in this next era won’t be the ones who defer to AI — they’ll be the ones who know how to interrogate it, challenge it and toggle between left and right in an iterative flow.
𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿:
⭐ 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗽 — a phrase that treats people as one checkpoint in a machine’s process.
⭐ I think about it as 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 — AI surrounds the work, accelerates it, generates options at a scale no team could match. But the human is still the center everything radiates from. The judgment. The intent. The why behind the what. 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽.
Huge thanks to Jim, Laura, Chad, and Andrew for bringing real rigor and real stories to this conversation — and to Vayner for the home base on the Croisette that made it all come together.
Raquelle Zuzarte, CMO and Board Member for the P&G Alumni Network
From P&G to Netflix: P&G Alum Jeff Norton on Building Hit Shows
Published July 3, 2026 by pgalums in
Jeff Norton is an award-winning author and television executive producer with a focus on turning books into global media.
Jeff is currently showrunner and executive producer of Finding Her Edge, the figure-skating drama he created for Netflix and WildBrain. It reached the Netflix Top 10 in more than 80 countries and was renewed for a second season less than two weeks after it premiered. Jeff is also the originating executive producer behind Netflix’s Geek Girl, now filming its second season, and has produced adaptations ranging from Susan Hill’s The Small Hand to the picture-book series Trucktown. Earlier, Jeff founded Lean Forward Media, consulted for The Jim Henson Company, and served as a Senior Vice President at Chorion, where he managed the literary estates of Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie. Jeff began his career at P&G as a marketing executive, where he helped launch Febreze as a category-creating brand. Jeff studied film and commerce at Queen’s University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He’s also a prolific author in his own right, with more than a dozen books to his name. A dual Canadian-British citizen, he’s based in Burlington, Ontario.
This conversation is hosted by podcast co-founder and P&G Alum Drew Tarvin, Founder & CEO of Humor That Works. Drew spent six years at P&G leading IT + brand initiatives before turning his background in engineering, improv, and stand-up comedy into a career helping organizations use humor to improve leadership, communication, and workplace culture. He’s the author of Humor That Works and his TEDx talk has been viewed more than 16 million times.
ES Recorded Webinar: Creating truly inclusive cultures in a divisive and changing world with René Bujard
Published July 2, 2026 by Elsie Gallegos in
Creating Truly Inclusive Cultures in a Divisive and Changing World
DEI is one of the most talked-about strategies in business today, and one of the most misunderstood. Well-intentioned leaders are leaving real organizational value on the table, not because they don’t care, but because the playbook they’re working from is incomplete.
This session is a challenge to think differently.
René Bujard has spent 20+ years building inclusive cultures across some of the world’s most complex organizations: P&G, Oxfam International, Galderma, and now Sunstar Group, a 90-year-old global family business headquartered in Switzerland. He has done this work across corporate, nonprofit, private equity, and family-owned sectors, in environments where the stakes are high and the politics are real.
His argument: DEI isn’t a values exercise. It’s an organizational strategy with measurable impact on engagement, development, and business results, and most organizations are only scratching the surface of what’s possible.
Come ready to engage. This one won’t leave you where it finds you.
Denmark Chapter: Kicking Off a New Chapter Together
Published by Elsie Gallegos in
Welcome to the P&G Alumni Network Denmark Chapter!
We are excited to celebrate the launch of our newest chapter in Denmark with a wonderful kick-off event, where alumni came together to reconnect, build new relationships, and enjoy the warmth of the Danish midsummer sun.
The enthusiasm and energy of this first gathering were inspiring, and it’s only the beginning. We are already planning a second get-together in August, after the Danish summer holidays, and hope to welcome an even larger group of P&G alumni.
If you’re a P&G alum living in Denmark, we’d love for you to join us as we grow this vibrant new community. Learn more and become part of the chapter here: P&G Alumni Network Denmark Chapter
Here’s to many more connections, conversations, and shared experiences ahead!
Geneva Chapter: Networking Event
Published by Elsie Gallegos in
The best networking doesn’t feel like networking. It feels like a conversation worth continuing.
Last night was a wonderful reminder of exactly that. New connections were made, ideas were challenged, experiences were shared, collaborations started to emerge and, perhaps most importantly, everyone brought a genuine willingness to learn from and support one another.
That is what makes the P&G Alumni Geneva community unique. It brings together accomplished leaders united by a shared mindset: staying curious, giving back and helping others succeed.
As a committee, our ambition is to keep creating the conditions for these conversations to happen—and to grow their impact. In the months ahead, we will be announcing exciting new partnerships and initiatives that will expand our network, enrich our discussions and create even more opportunities for our community.
We will now take a well-deserved summer break, we will be sharing the confirmed agenda for September till December with the registration links over the coming days.
The strength of a community is measured by what its members choose to contribute. Thank you for your generosity, your curiosity and your willingness to make this community stronger. The best chapters are still ahead of us.
Have a wonderful summer—we look forward to seeing you again in September!
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