By Naomi Simson
Publication Date: 2026-06-01 00:48:00
As keynote speaker and CEO, I have a responsibility to stay informed – but the amount of information is unrelenting. My solution: Reach out to the voices you trust and reach out in person when it matters most. The Marketing AI Summit in San Francisco was one of those moments.
There is a quiet crisis in the lives of most leaders I know. Not a crisis of strategy, capital (perhaps) or talent – although that is very real. It’s an information crisis.
The amount of things I am expected to know, understand and have an opinion on has never been greater. Marketing is changing. AI is changing everything in marketing. The tools I trusted two years ago are outdated. The playbooks I learned are being rewritten in real time. And every week, somewhere in my inbox, there’s another report, another newsletter, another LinkedIn post that tells me that if I do…
