“My job is to accelerate growth, scale performance, and develop future leaders.”
Meet John Fildes
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Growth Leader
I lead growth in enterprise organizations by unifying strategy, sales and marketing, technology, and operations into modern commercial engines that improve competitiveness and deliver measurable business value.
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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.
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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.
Executive Briefings
Impact Stories
Strategy
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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.
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Market Disruption
Developed the go-to-market strategy for Accenture Interactive’s market expansion, helping establish a differentiated digital presence and compete effectively against large established agency conglomerates.
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Global Marketing
Created a customer-led global marketing strategy for Cognizant Digital Operations, a multi-billion-dollar business, connecting industry issues and executive priorities across 14 offerings to grow revenue.
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Investment 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.
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Transformation Strategies
Founded a marketing and technology consultancy and built growth and transformation strategies for more than forty clients, including notable enterprise and mid-market organizations, helping them modernize and compete.
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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
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Intelligent ABM
Co-developed Accenture's award-winning account-based marketing program, combining customer intelligence, content, and personalization for 1,750+ C-suite clients and earning SABRE, BMA ACE, and ITSMA awards.
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Relationship Building
Created a one-to-one engagement strategy for Wipro combining executive engagement, digital interaction, and predictive analytics, growing CXO engagement 917% in three years and helping influence and create new deals.
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Strategic Accounts
Sponsored Wipro's global account-based marketing program across more than seventy-five strategic accounts, co-originating billions of dollars in pipeline and hundreds of millions in net-new revenue.
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Client Experience
Brought Wipro demand generation, account teams, and pursuit teams together around integrated digital experiences that improved acquisition, strengthened retention, and increased account growth.
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Exclusive Community
Created an invitation-only executive community for Accenture C-level clients, combining personalized offline and online experiences that grew new members 51% and returning members 55%.
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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
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Product Messaging
Developed positioning, market narratives, collateral, and demand programs for Cognizant’s Intelligent Process Automation offering, helping strengthen differentiation and support commercial growth.
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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.
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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.
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Content Experience
Oversaw Accenture Interactive’s website presence and interactive content ecosystem, helping build visibility, activate demand channels, and support acquisition in a competitive category.
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Content Creation
Developed editorial strategy and more than one hundred issue-based content assets for Cognizant Digital Operations, turning complex business issues into stories that powered campaigns and sales plays.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Paid Search
Managed millions in Google Ads investment across North America, Europe, and APAC, improving digital performance through continuous optimization of clicks, conversions, and return on investment.
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Social Channels
Grew social communities reaching millions of followers for Accenture Healthcare, Public Service, Federal Services, and Interactive, and activated 183+ senior leaders as voices on social platforms.
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Email Marketing
Implemented issue-led, data-driven email marketing practices for Accenture Health & Public Service, increasing the quality and volume of marketing-sourced and marketing-influenced leads.
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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
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Account Intelligence
Implemented scoring systems, engagement metrics, Salesforce dashboards, and sales intelligence capabilities that improved visibility into opportunity and client-centric marketing performance.
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Intelligence Platform
Unified Accenture Health & Public Service marketing channel data into a Tableau-powered cloud intelligence platform, improving performance visibility and management decision making.
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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.
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Decision Making
Developed interactive dashboards for Accenture Interactive paid media investments, adding forecasting and predictive analytics capabilities to improve investment planning and performance optimization.
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Search Advertising
Activated and optimized tens of millions in Google Ads investment for Accenture Health & Public Service, rapidly expanding awareness and engagement across seven countries and five languages.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Process Improvement
Created process maps and identified simplification and cost savings opportunities, unifying and streamlining account, pursuit, campaign, content, channel, and CRM processes.
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Agency Management
Assessed SEO, PPC, display, website, CRM, and analytics providers and built a preferred agency network, cutting agency costs 64% ($500K+) while improving partner quality and brand governance.
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Demand Generation
Modernized marketing operations and cost structure for Wipro's Americas business, representing roughly 30% of company revenue, improving efficiency while scaling demand generation across eleven industry sectors.
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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.
Leadership Development