“I help organizations accelerate growth, scale performance, and develop future leaders.”

Meet John Fildes

  • Growth Leader

    I help enterprise organizations accelerate growth by unifying strategy, marketing, technology, and operations to create modern commercial engines that improve competitiveness and deliver measurable business value.

  • Business Builder

    Before leading growth within global enterprises, I founded and grew a digital marketing and technology consultancy, developing the ownership mindset and operational discipline that continue to shape my leadership today.

  • Leadership Multiplier

    I believe great leaders create lasting impact by developing others. Helping leaders, teams, and entrepreneurs realize their potential remains one of the most rewarding aspects of my career.

Leadership Insights

Impact Stories

 

Strategy

  • Growth Strategy

    Designed and led a global growth strategy across seven priority markets for Accenture Health & Public Service, helping focus investment, expand market presence, and originate billions of dollars in net new revenue.

  • Market Disruption

    Developed the go-to-market strategy for Accenture Interactive’s market entry, helping establish a differentiated digital presence and compete effectively against large established agency conglomerates.

  • Global Marketing

    Created a customer-led global marketing strategy for Cognizant Digital Operations that connected industry issues, executive priorities, and business objectives to improve reputation, relationships, and revenue.

  • Marketing Planning

    Led marketing strategy and investment planning across five continents and eleven industries, helping Accenture Health & Public Service focus tens of millions of program dollars against priority growth opportunities.

  • Transformation Strategies

    Developed growth and digital transformation strategies for a marketing and technology consultancy and more than forty enterprise and mid-market clients, helping organizations modernize capabilities and improve competitiveness.

  • Technology Advisory

    Helped advance Accenture’s global marketing and CRM technology infrastructure through enterprise workstreams and committees, improving operational readiness, scalability, and customer engagement capabilities.

Accounts

  • Intelligent ABM

    Transformed Accenture’s account-based marketing program by combining customer intelligence, content, digital engagement, and data-driven personalization to create more relevant experiences for priority accounts.

  • Relationship Building

    Created a one-to-one relationship strategy that combined personal engagement, digital interaction, and predictive analytics to strengthen customer relationships, influence strategic deals, and shape new opportunities.

  • Strategic Accounts

    Developed and improved segmentation models for Accenture Health & Public Service, helping focus resources on high-value accounts and accelerate new business creation.

  • Client Experience

    Brought demand generation, account teams, and pursuit teams together around integrated digital experiences that improved acquisition, strengthened retention, and increased account growth.

  • Exclusive Community

    Created an invitation-only executive community for Accenture C-level clients, combining personalized offline and online experiences to deepen relationships and strengthen strategic dialogue.

  • Deal Pursuits

    Improved pursuit effectiveness by creating digital portals and personalized customer experiences aligned to top sales opportunities across Accenture Retail, Consumer Goods, and Travel.

Positioning

  • Product Messaging

    Developed positioning, market narratives, collateral, and demand programs for Cognizant’s Intelligent Process Automation offering, helping strengthen differentiation and support commercial growth.

  • Industry Messaging

    Created industry and platform messaging for Cognizant, translating market challenges and solution value into narratives, collateral, and campaigns that improved relevance with executive buyers.

  • Campaign Integration

    Developed Accenture Business Services offering messaging and integrated it into global awareness and demand programs spanning thirteen industry segments, improving consistency and market reach.

  • Content Experience

    Oversaw Accenture Interactive’s website presence and interactive content ecosystem, helping build visibility, activate demand channels, and support market entry in a competitive category.

  • Content Creation

    Developed editorial strategy and created hundreds of content assets for Cognizant Digital Operations, helping turn complex business issues into market-facing stories that supported reputation and demand.

  • Industry Accolades

    Amplified analyst recognition from Forrester, Everest, IDC, HfS, and others through integrated digital and in-person promotion, helping increase visibility, credibility, and customer confidence.

Demand

  • Growth Driver

    Activated Cognizant Digital Operations’ demand and lead generation capabilities, helping generate millions of dollars in pipeline, sales, and revenue across fourteen cloud-based digital offerings.

  • Pipeline Growth

    Created and executed targeted, issue-based demand campaigns for Cognizant Digital Operations, generating millions in pipeline by connecting customer priorities to differentiated offering value.

  • Paid Search

    Managed millions in Google AdWords investment across North America, Europe, and APAC, improving digital performance through continuous optimization of clicks, conversions, and return on investment.

  • Social Channels

    Activated and grew social media communities reaching millions of followers for Accenture Healthcare, Public Service, Federal Services, and Interactive, expanding audience reach and market visibility.

  • Email Marketing

    Implemented issue-led, data-driven email marketing practices for Accenture Health & Public Service, substantially increasing marketing-sourced and marketing-influenced leads.

  • Advertising

    Led real-time optimization of Accenture Health, Public Service, and Federal display and out of home advertising programs, delivering double-digit improvements in conversion and return on investment.

Intelligence

  • Account Intelligence

    Implemented scoring systems, engagement metrics, Salesforce dashboards, and sales intelligence capabilities that improved visibility into opportunity and client-centric marketing performance.

  • Intelligence Platform

    Unified Accenture Health & Public Service marketing channel data into a Tableau-powered cloud intelligence platform, improving performance visibility and management decision making.

  • Data Strategy

    Created marketing data strategies for Accenture Health & Public Service and Accenture Federal Services, connecting contacts, channels, campaigns, content, and operations into a more actionable foundation.

  • Decision Making

    Developed interactive dashboards for Accenture Interactive paid media investments, adding forecasting and predictive analytics capabilities to improve investment planning and performance optimization.

  • Search Optimization

    Activated and optimized tens of millions in Google AdWords investment for Accenture Health, rapidly expanding awareness and engagement across seven countries and five languages.

  • MQL/SQL Management

    Implemented MQL and SQL lead management processes for Cognizant Digital Operations, supported by Salesforce and Pardot dashboards for intelligence and automated reporting.

Operations

  • Salesforce Management

    Oversaw Accenture Health & Public Service Salesforce and Pardot operations, improving adoption, training, platform usage, enhancements, and long-term growth marketing and operations effectiveness.

  • Technology Consolidation

    Consolidated CRM and marketing technology systems from mergers and acquisitions, migrating data and assets into Accenture Interactive platforms to achieve consistency and scalability.

  • Process Improvement

    Created process maps, identified simplification and cost savings opportunities, and delivered quantifiable improvements across account, pursuit, campaign, content, channel, and CRM processes.

  • Agency Management

    Assessed SEO, PPC, display, website, CRM, and analytics providers, developing preferred agency networks that improved partner quality, brand governance, and execution consistency.

  • Demand Generation

    Oversaw Salesforce and Pardot operations for Accenture Health & Public Service, including contact, campaign, and lead management, while building a nearshore shared services capability for global scale.

  • Service Line Presence

    Redesigned Cognizant Digital Operations’ web presence across fourteen industries, three horizontal solutions, and hundreds of content assets, creating a more cohesive global digital experience.