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: 9 March 16:30 - 18:00 UTC
🗣️ Get to Know our Speakers
Claudia Guerreiro
Claudia is the founder of Conscious Marketing Movement, a visionary social enterprise reshaping marketing by aligning profit with social and environmental impact. With over ten years of international experience across sales, marketing, and research in hospitality, AI, and technology, she supports organisations across the for-profit, nonprofit, and academic sectors. A major highlight of her recent work is securing two Erasmus+ EU grants for 2025, reflecting the growing trust and recognition Conscious Marketing Movement is earning across Europe.
Florian is the founder of FutureStrategies, a strategic marketing studio working with corporate leaders and policymakers to explore how organisations can rediscover their potential and act with greater courage and responsibility. His work brings a systems-level perspective to marketing, one that looks beyond tactics to the deeper structures shaping decision-making, power, and impact.
Thomas is a pioneering global voice on marketing, business and sustainability. A motivational speaker, author and impact entrepreneur, he’s been called “a climate change agent” by Forbes. He has spoken in more than 80 countries, advising global brands like Meta, adidas, IKEA and P&G. He is founder of the Goodvertising Agency, a columnist for The Guardian, Ad Age and Forbes, and co-hosts the podcasts Purpose Hits and Misses and Climate Punk.
Judit Saez Gonzalvez
Judit is a community builder, systemic coach and mentor who co-facilitates the year-long Regenerative Leadership Journey by Regenerators, nurturing its ecosystem of over 1,000 people across more than 70 countries. Drawing on more than 15 years in marketing and advertising leadership, strategy, organisational culture, and business development, she supports those questioning business-as-usual: the burned-out and the misaligned, as she herself was once. She helps them recognise the extractive, mechanistic patterns we've internalised, guides them in exploring new ways of working and being, and helps them remember what it means to lead from connection: with ourselves, each other, and the vast web of life.
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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
We help organisations grow and deepen their impact in ways that restore rather than extract. Through regenerative marketing, storytelling, and education, we build the infrastructure, campaigns, and skills for purpose-led marketing teams to thrive.
As both a do-tank and think-tank, we combine hands-on marketing and capacity building programmes to strengthen brands, increase resilience, and deepen the shift toward regenerative practice across the field of marketing.
www.zebragrowth.com