Teresa Barreira leads marketing at Publicis Sapient, with prior tenures at IBM, Accenture, and Deloitte. She has seen every major technology shift. AI is different.

In this episode of Earn The Right, Apoorv Agarwal sits down with Teresa Barreira, Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Publicis Sapient, to unpack how AI is fundamentally reshaping marketing, leadership, and the future of human work.

Teresa is one of the most influential marketing leaders operating at the intersection of enterprise transformation, AI adoption, and creative strategy. With more than 25 years of global leadership experience, she has built and scaled marketing organizations inside some of the world’s most complex enterprises, often during periods of rapid technological change.

But this conversation goes beyond tools and tactics.

Born and raised in a small village in northern Portugal, Teresa emigrated to the United States as a teenager. She learned English by watching soap operas. She began working in her family’s business at the age of ten. Those early experiences shaped a leadership philosophy grounded in accountability, adaptability, and human judgment. These are qualities she believes matter even more as AI becomes embedded in everyday work.

At Publicis Sapient, Teresa is redefining modern marketing by building AI-first operating models, experimenting with agentic systems, and rethinking roles around tasks rather than titles. Her mandate is clear. AI should not replace humans. It should elevate them.

This is a conversation about what actually changes inside companies once AI moves from theory to operations. It explores how decisions are made, how teams are structured, and where human judgment still defines impact.

In this episode, we’ll explore

• Why every company is becoming a software company: AI is not just automating marketing tasks. It is forcing organizations to learn how to build, test, and iterate systems as a core capability.

• Why creativity beats consistency in the age of AI: When execution becomes automated, originality and judgment become the true competitive advantage.

• Why AI replaces tasks, not jobs: Breaking roles into tasks reveals where humans create value and where automation actually helps rather than threatens.

• Why most AI pilots fail inside enterprises: They optimize existing workflows instead of redesigning how work should happen in the first place.

• Why CMOs must become builders, not just operators: Modern marketing leaders are expected to design systems, not just oversee outputs.

• Why exploration matters more than specialization: AI rewards curiosity, adaptability, and learning speed over narrow expertise.

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What does it take to lead when systems fail? Timothy Mayopoulos has spent his career answering that question.

In episode three of Earn The Right, Apoorv Agarwal speaks with one of the most trusted crisis leaders in American finance. Tim served as CEO of Fannie Mae and later stepped in as the FDIC-appointed CEO of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank during its 2023 collapse. He is also a lawyer who built his early career inside some of Wall Street’s most demanding legal environments.

This is a conversation about leadership under pressure: decision-making at velocity, empathy in moments of fear and how to find purpose when the world shifts overnight.

Before leading large financial turnarounds, Tim built his foundation as a litigator at Davis Polk. He later became General Counsel across several global financial institutions, including Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse. His legal career shaped the analytical discipline and empathy he became known for.

Tim went on to serve as President and CEO of Fannie Mae, where the company returned 167 billion dollars in dividends to the U.S. Treasury. After that, he led Blend Labs to a market-leading position in mortgage and consumer banking technology.

Today, Tim sits on the boards of Blend Labs, LendingClub and SAIC. He also advises several VC-backed fintech companies, including Bilt Technologies, Valon and Roam Homes. In addition, he serves on the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee.

• Crisis leadership: How to step into uncertainty, take charge and guide teams through fear.

• Turning Risk Into Opportunity: Why running toward a crisis can accelerate your career and expand your leadership capacity.

• Insights from the SVB & Fannie Mae Frontlines: What actually causes institutions to fail and why liquidity, not business model, is often the real culprit.

• Decision-Making Velocity: Why great leaders separate “quality of inputs” from “quality of outcomes.”

• Housing & The American Dream: Why homeownership is still central to wealth-building and what must change for the next generation.

• Leadership at Scale: How leading at Fannie Mae differs from leading at a startup and why small companies demand faster judgment.

• AI, Work & The Future: Why AI is the “electricity of the century” and what it means for the next generation of lawyers, bankers and knowledge workers.

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How do we power the world without blackouts? The answer may be green ammonia.

On the second episode of Earn The Right, we’re joined by Joel Moser, CEO of First Ammonia. His climate tech firm is at the forefront of producing green ammonia, a sustainable fuel crucial for solving the biggest challenges in renewable energy.

This is a conversation about what’s next: for Earth, for technology and the next century of human progress.

An entrepreneur, lawyer and adjunct professor at Columbia University, Joel has led the financing and execution of major infrastructure and renewable energy initiatives. His expertise spans both public and private sectors, having advised institutions from NASA and the World Bank to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on rebuilding New York after 9/11. He also serves on the executive committee of Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

On the podcast, Joel shares what it takes to lead through disruption, why the U.S. is losing the energy race and how AI could transform the future of infrastructure and sustainability.

In this episode, we explore:

• Green Ammonia: What it is and why it could solve renewable power’s biggest challenge.

• The Global Energy Race: How the Inflation Reduction Act and U.S. policy shifts are reshaping the power landscape.

• AI & Infrastructure: Why AI can transform how large-scale infrastructure is designed, financed and operated.

• Leadership Through Uncertainty: What it takes to lead, from rebuilding Ground Zero to scaling climate tech.

• Excelling in Transition: How to keep learning and adapting in an industry that’s constantly evolving.

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