Deborah Overdeput

With 20+ years of experience as a global executive marketing leader, I have been integral to high-level marketing & business strategies to drive growth.  It is my passion as a thought leader to provide optimal brand awareness, execute demand generation, & provide best-in-class go-to-market strategies.  I am well versed in public & analyst relations,  as well as content marketing, of which I have proven across my advanced career.  As a global collaborative leader, I am consistently leading the market development & management efforts to increase revenue, as well as deliver year over year growth of +20%.

Key Achievements Include: 

✅ Cultivated an international business acumen by executing marketing strategies in Europe for 10+ years as well as leading global teams in the US, influencing growth worldwide

✅ Repositioned the brand of a FinTech company as forward-thinking by refining the image on all consumer-facing documents, revamping the website, strengthening the messaging, and building the demand generation engine, significantly expanding the pipeline, growing recurring revenue by 20% in one year, and over 3 years increasing overall revenue from flat to 12% YoY growth and launching a new line of business to 15% of total revenue

✅ Introduced a client-centric product release process, structured company’s 1st formal product roadmaps, and improved the lead generation process, generating $24M in leads

✅ Led and mentored a global team of 24 resources with oversight of a $6M budget to develop the brand, marketing strategy, internal communications, demand generation, sales support, marketing operations, recruitment, and programs, growing revenue from $250M to $500M+ in 5 years and establishing the team as central to the corporation

✅ Delivered thought leadership across leading industry journals and Tier 1 press by publishing the semiannual CROSSINGS journal, the highly sought-after Glossary of Terms publication, and a column in Forbes, growing the distribution database from 1K to 15K+ industry contacts and improving the accuracy of the delivery rate from 67% to ~95%

✅ Chairman for the Homeland Heroes Foundation and established governance to align the organization with its by-laws, implemented board infrastructure, oversaw and developed strategic plan, as well as developed and stewarded the brand to reflect its mission and values (charitable contributions tripled from 2017 to 2022)

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Chief Outsiders helps companies accelerate growth. We provide fractional or part-time, highly experienced marketing executives who work directly with the CEO, CMO, or CRO. We re-establish or accelerate growth through effective demand-gen and go-to-market strategy, including special projects. Our approach includes a "peer review" process where client growth strategies are reviewed and enhanced by peer CMOs. We're 100+ CMOs strong, and our ranks include alumni from Starbucks, HP, Disney, and other leaders who defined their market categories.

Grateful to you, Sally Clarke. I am proud to be on this journey with you.

One of the most important leadership lessons I’ve learned is that walking away is not failure. It is clarity.
It is alignment.
It is choosing the work, and the life, that fits who you are becoming.

The women in Walk Away show that stepping away is often the most strategic move forward.

On 5 March in Singapore, Sally will lead this conversation at the HSBC -hosted launch for #InternationalWomensDay. If you’re there, I hope you’ll join.

#WalkAway #Leadership #IWD #WomenInLeadership

Chief Operating Officer @ Innovative Systems, Inc. | Fractional CMO for FinTechs

Executive leadership | Company Founder | Award-winning Author

Meet Deborah Overdeput — COO of Innovative Systems, Inc., former colleague at SunGard - now part of FIS, and my co-author on Walk Away

One of the most powerful reframes in leadership is this: walking away is not weakness. It is not failure. It is not retreat.

It is movement.

Movement toward alignment
Movement toward achieving your dreams
Movement toward the work as well as the life that fits who you are becoming

Deborah brings clarity, courage and commercial depth to this conversation. Her perspective reminds us that stepping away from one chapter is often the most strategic step toward the next.

On 5 March in Singapore, at the HSBC-hosted Walk Away launch and panel discussion, on #IWD, we’ll be exploring what it really means to choose forward momentum and the lessons learnt. I'll also be signing copies of our book.

Register here:

https://bit.ly/49FjRi8

#WalkAway #Leadership #Choice #Reinvention #WomenInLeadership #IWD 

Many thanks to partner organisation British Association of Singapore and supporting organisations IWG Italian Women's Group Singapore SAS - Swiss Association of Singapore Singapore Press Club

Eva Khoo Michelle Howard Julie Cutting Paul Wilson

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