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Denise Steinbring
Denise Steinbring is an Area Managing Partner with Chief Outsiders and currently serves as a Fractional CMO and CEO to emerging MedTech companies, including an active engagement with a revenue-generating medical technology company. Her career spans 25+ years of global commercial leadership across large strategics, mid-market growth companies, and early-stage ventures in the medical device and healthcare technology sectors. She holds an MBA from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and a certificate in Digital Transformation from MIT Sloan Executive Education.
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Vistage Chairs: Is Your Member’s Marketing Really Working? Ask These 5 Questions.
Tue, Aug 11, 2026 | Posted by Karen Hayward
Executive Takeaways
- Most CEOs challenge every capital investment but can't say with confidence whether their marketing is working.
- More leads isn't better marketing. Better customers are.
- If sales and marketing are blaming each other, the CEO hasn't asked the right question.
- The real measure isn't what marketing produced. It's what it changed about the future economics of the business.
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