

The Death of Marketing: What Emerges When Marketing As We Know It Ends
In this provocative Playground, we'll be joined by marketing and business growth leaders for a fireside-style debate on the future of their craft. With diverse perspectives, we'll wrestle with the hard questions:
What does a post-growth, post-colonial business world look like?
What might a post-marketing world give rise to?
What capacities and roles will marketers carry with them into a regenerative Utopia?
What role will technology and AI play in reshaping the terrain for marketing and business growth beyond extractive models?
This event is about imagining what dies, what thrives, and what is born anew when we release the assumptions that have long defined business as usual.
✨ Key Outcomes
Explore radical alternatives to marketing that center care, regeneration, stewardship, and interdependence.
Discover how leaders across different schools of thought are reframing the role of growth in business.
Envision the practical roles marketers can take up in a regenerative future.
🌱 Why Attend
If you’ve ever felt disillusioned by “business as usual” yet curious about what comes after it, this Playground offers a space to lean into discomfort, debate, and possibility. Expect diverse perspectives, fresh insight, and seeds of a future beyond the current paradigm.
🎯 Who This Is For
Marketers, strategists, and entrepreneurs seeking alignment with post-growth principles.
Change-makers rethinking the role of technology and AI in human and ecological flourishing.
Anyone drawn to deep dialogue about the edges of business, growth, and meaning.
📅 Date to be announced — speaker announcement coming soon.
📩 Register now to reserve your spot and receive updates as we reveal more details.
WHAT PAST PARTICIPANTS HAD TO SAY
"Really beautiful, heartful session with lots of opportunity for pause and reflection. The chat was so vibrant, I’ll need to revisit! Would welcome a deeper dive into some themes, especially late-stage capitalism/transition and how this relates to storytelling for business & marketing." - Sophie Lacey
"I highly recommend having a follow-up Q&A session that focuses on the questions unable to be answered during the session. Fantastic Session!" - Alisha Morris
"I felt truly inspired after this session! 😍 Thank you for creating these spaces to connect with leaders who are rethinking business models. It really shifted my perspective on the responsibility we have as marketers to remain transparent and true to the core essence of our businesses. I loved hearing the diverse perspectives and exploring new approaches to driving meaningful change. This conversation genuinely opened my eyes! I’m excited to continue learning and connecting with others who share this vision." - Michelle Guzman Murphy"Sessions like this are liberating. They give us the courage and the language to challenge, unlearn, and rebuild." - Carla
About Zebra Growth
Marketing and branding consultancy for impact-driven startups that are on the cusp of expansion and looking to gain a strategic edge.
The start-up world is broken.
We believe that the way business is done needs to change. That a mindless pursuit of growth at all costs, and the sole focus of generating profit for a small minority of shareholders is not sustainable, and has contributed to the rapidly growing social and environmental injustices in the world today.
Our Purpose is to support ethically driven entrepreneurs to build, launch and grow brands that pave the way to an inclusive and regenerative society.
Having worked in the corporate venture builder as well as the traditional agency space, we have seen first hand the damage being done and we want to take the unfair advantage that profit hungry corporations have, and level the playing field for social impact start-ups, equipping them with the tools, experience, and growth hacking mindset they need to rapidly and efficiently build the brands that humanity needs now.
Growth hacking is our advantage:
Growth hacking is a process that is being used by silicon valley’s fastest growing tech start-ups. It is the most effective way to grow a business or build a brand, and it is something that is gaining popularity within the start-up and scaleup community.
We are reforming the way growth hacking is used, putting a holistic, ethical and social impact lens on it.
www.zebragrowth.com