Growth Marketing

Strategies to unlock new opportunities

To drive profitable growth in today’s dynamic business landscape, leaders must possess a deep understanding of their market, strategic insights into their customers’ behavior, and a powerful command of strategies and techniques that identify opportunities and inspire cross-functional teams to act quickly. The Growth Marketing program at Kellogg Executive Education will equip you with these essential skills through a rigorous and engaging curriculum. Join us for a transformative experience led by renowned professors Derek Rucker and Kevin McTigue.

You will learn the critical 4-W’s of business growth in an immersive faculty-led experience, to equip you to better navigate the complexities of today’s market.

Where Do You Grow?

  • Learn how to match high-potential market segments with your optimal products and services.
  • Explore the disciplines of innovation, advertising, and brand purpose.
  • Create clear, practical, short-term objectives that align with your organization’s goals.
  • Understand how to balance brand versus performance marketing.

Who Are My Customers?

  • Which customers provide the strongest opportunities for growth?
  • Determine who your customers are and manage the complexity of audience targeting.
  • Balance strategic targeting with AI-driven channel planning.

Why Are They Not Buying?

  • Understand customer perceptions and barriers to purchasing.
  • Learn how to develop a compelling messaging strategy that activates consumer motivations.

When and How Do We Engage?

  • Outline a tactical approach to meet your customers’ needs through journey mapping.
  • Optimize creative strategies and tactical execution.

Incentives available for groups and teams of four or more attending open enrollment programs. Learn more



 

VIDEO: Academic Directors Derek Rucker and Kevin McTigue give an overview of their new program, Growth Marketing.


 

VIDEO: Derek and Kevin discuss the program in an informational webinar.

Personal Consultation

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Who Should Attend

  • Marketing Leaders and Executives: Senior marketing professionals responsible for driving growth in their organizations.
  • General Managers and Revenue Leaders: Executives focused on expanding market reach and driving growth.
  • Product Managers and Entrepreneurs: Professionals involved in developing and marketing products and services who seek to scale their brand.
  • Sales and Business Professionals: Individuals looking to enhance their strategic marketing capabilities and contribute to their company’s growth engine.
  • Emerging Leaders: High-potential staff who wish to become a growth catalyst in their organization.

Key Benefits

  • Engage in Experiential Learning: Participate in hands-on exercises that unite faculty and participants, bringing growth concepts to life and ensuring practical application.
  • Adopt a Growth-Oriented Mindset: Learn to foster a proactive approach to assessing business challenges and converting them into opportunities.
  • Master Strategic Frameworks: Learn to ask the right questions within your organization and apply proven methods to drive brand growth.
  • Discover Contemporary Practices that Leverage Foundational Marketing Strategies: Connect innovative digital and AI-driven techniques with timeless strategic principles.
  • Change How You Approach Growth Conversations: Effectively align your team’s activities and outcomes with strategic goals for success.
  • Identify Key Growth Opportunities: Learn how to choose the best target segments for your products and services for maximum growth impact.

Faculty

Derek D. Rucker - Academic Director; Sandy & Morton Goldman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies in Marketing; Professor of Marketing

Kevin McTigue - Academic Director; Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing

What Participants Say

"The faculty team provided theory and practical insights on sales strategy including value creation, sales structure and channel definition and management. This information provided valuable intel, tools and considerations as we evolve our sales strategy and coinciding sales structure to meet our customers needs."
Chief Customer Officer, G.E.T. Enterprises, LLC


"This [program] immersed me in compelling cases that were enhanced by the professors' extensive sales experience and knowledge of key trends. By the end of day one I knew what I needed to do - and by the end of the program I knew exactly how."
Managing Director, Marin's Mexico


"Sales is a complex discipline. The course breaks down the complex into manageable and actionable pieces. I left the course with clarity on the difference between strategic planning vs. strategic thinking, the critical importance of key value propositions and how to bring it all together via an implementation framework."
Senior Vice President, Global Sales Organization, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts


"No matter how successful a brand is, businesses are always tasked to grow. This executive Growth Marketing course challenged my perspective on our current marketing strategies and delivered clear, winning processes to support our long-term business goals. The experience didn't just grow me as an individual, it sharpened my capability a leader. I'm already looking forward to my next Executive Education course at Kellogg."
VP of Marketing, STEMCO Products


"It's a wonderful training—comprehensive in scope, rich with practical cases and insightful in addressing key operation challenges and blind spots. Truly invaluable. Thank you especially for the warmth and care in organizing this; it made all the difference."
Revenue Management Supervisor, ExxonMobil Corporation


"I am so grateful for this course. The cases and conversation made growth feel both strategic and intuitive—such a great learning experience. Great teachers and great networking."
Head of Corporate Governance and ESG, Industrias Tajín


"Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us—I truly learned a ton this week.”
CEO and Owner, Blue Frog Branding

Featured Videos

Academic Directors Derek Rucker and Kevin McTigue discuss how they approach teaching Growth Marketing.

Academic Directors Derek Rucker and Kevin McTigue discuss why organizations struggle with growth.

Academic Directors Derek Rucker and Kevin McTigue discuss their backgrounds and how it relates to Growth Marketing.

Upcoming Sessions

December 7-10, 2026

Start: December 7 at 3:30 PM

End: December 10 at 11:45 AM


Format: In-Person at Miami Campus

A preferred hotel rate is available at the Hyatt Coral Gables (use code 60167).

$8,950

Fee does not include accommodations.

June 21-24, 2027

Start: June 21 at 3:30 PM

End: June 24 at 11:45 AM


Format: In-Person at Wieboldt Hall on Chicago Campus

A preferred hotel rate is available at the Omni Chicago.

$8,950

Fee does not include accommodations.

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