Stop creating in vain, and start creating content that lasts.

Learn the mindset applied by some of the world’s leading chief communications, marketing, and brand officers to manage significant change for your business and stay durable. Discover how you can change your strategic communications strategy in just a few weeks.

Next Think Editorial executive program: Feb 10 – Apr 5, 2025

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Flavia Barbat is one of the smartest people I’ve worked with. She brings an editorial approach to B2B content that helps both businesses and marketing teams hone their skills in thought-leadership content. Her framework for building and developing content ecosystems that engage and convert audiences is something all marketing teams could learn from.

Zoe Bishop, Chief Communications Officer at Designit

Online program curriculum

An actionable, high-value program that will teach you how to create, sustain, and distribute premium content. So that you can finally connect brand strategy to business outcomes in a tangible, coherent way.

Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Module 6
Module 7

What is editorial marketing?

The fundamental truths of an editorial mindset, and how it cements the difference between you and those counting their content pieces.

  • Giving your verbal identity the attention it needs
  • Building a bridge between brand narrative and marcomm
  • Identifying the HOW that makes your brand truly unique
  • Empowering employee comms for corporate brand building
  • Supporting the value of your people's writing skills

Why editorial marketing?

Learn how an editorial marketer solves for the disadvantages that stem from how content is created today.

  • From disconnected content to a cohesive, yet flexible flow
  • From wasted resources to content integrity
  • From incoherent messaging to the intention economy
  • From strong visuals to subtle values
  • From cultural rigidity to human flexibility

Tying editorial marketing to your brand and business strategy

Build an editorial structure of specificity and, therefore, quality. A structure that contributes to brand reputation as much as it does business growth.

  • Choosing the right editorial structure and committee
  • Building out your editorial strategy
  • Performing a content audit and mapping existing materials
  • Prioritizing your propositions
  • Sustaining your editorial strategy over time

Brand leadership starts with thought leadership

Understand why thought leadership is not an end product, but rather a mindset that makes your brand the go-to trusted partner—the confidant—for your ideal customer.

  • What is thought leadership? (Spoiler alert: It's not PR.)
  • What thought leadership looks like in practice
  • Building an organization of thought leaders
  • Benefiting from the network effect of branding
  • Identifying thought leaders beyond your C-suite

Content creation and distribution

The first steps to visualizing, structuring, and acting upon an editorial content ecosystem of your own (including what and who you need to do so).

  • Taking action with the content you already have
  • Prompting thought leaders to produce more authentic content
  • What editorial-grade content and campaigns look like
  • Packaging your content for maximum success
  • Establishing the processes your content ecosystem requires

Content promotion and measurement

A fresh approach to modern promotional channels—along with what to track, score, and report—together with the value of giving qualitative meaning to quantitative metrics.

  • Shifting from traditional to editorial promotion tactics
  • Concentrating and validating your content investments
  • Building a network of editorial "amplifiers"
  • Sustaining an informed yet manageable editorial calendar
  • Flipping your perspective on content measurement

Recap, daily practice, and benefits

A full recap of the editorial marketing mindset and framework, including its benefits and recommended daily practices.

  • What we learned and why it matters
  • Making the difference by thinking editorial
  • Communicating the key benefits of editorial marketing
  • Championing the editor-in-chief mindset
  • Leveraging editorial values to push forward in your career

Who is this executive program for?

Communications, marketing, and content directors, leads, and managers.

And if your job title includes variations of these: global business marketing, B2B marketing, employer brand, content, and brand marketing.

Expect to walk away with the knowledge and confidence you need to be an editorial leader, whatever your position. To create ripple effects of change within your organization.

What's included?

  • Live, weekly trainings and the ability to rewatch the recordings if you miss them.

  • Bonus, in-depth working sessions to get to know and discuss with your peers.

  • Private sessions with Flavia Barbat in which you can ask specific questions about your business or career and get clarity.

  • Practical exercises for advancing your editorial strategy, verbal identity, content ecosystem, brand communications.

  • Editable templates for proposition, capability, and content mapping, along with a full editorial calendar.

Your biggest questions about strategic communications, answered.

If I’m a B2B company, then how does editorial marketing stand to benefit my reputation? Isn’t the creativity and innovation of my client work enough?

How is editorial marketing different from PR, and why do I need both to achieve the business transformation I’m looking for?

How can content maximize my communication resources (e.g., thinkers, budget, writers, time) efficiently while still hitting the quality mark?

How does editorial marketing from within contribute to the overall value of my brand?

How can an editorial strategy expand our current brand or client efforts into sustainable impact across our target audience(s)?

How do I go about building an editorial marketing strategy? What are some of the creation, distribution, communication, and measurement principles that I should adopt?

Editorial marketing is a tried and tested mindset that has helped billion-dollar brands generate:

+26%

online conversions in 3 months

+54%

external long-form PDF downloads

~100k

presentation downloads

>150

pieces of written content per year

2x

increase in target media placements

+121%

website traffic in 6 months

>10%

average LinkedIn engagement rate

>400

people tuning in for live events

7k

books distributed for business development

award-winning branded content initiatives

Next Think Editorial cohort starts Feb 10

Now’s the time to sign up! Prices go up November 30.

More details
  • Limited seats, private community
  • Live, online program via Circle
  • Weekly sessions across an 8-week period
  • In-depth discussions and Q&As
  • Access to all session recordings for 6 months
  • 1:1 in-depth sessions with Flavia Barbat
  • Group chat for updates, resources, and discussion
  • Practical theory and approaches
  • Content ecosystem and mapping frameworks
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