Marketing Therapy at SXSW
A Brunch for Leaders Who Carry the Weight
March 15, 2026
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Suerte | Austin, TX
Marketing leadership today sometimes feels like it requires a therapist on speed dial.
Revenue accountability without full control.
Growth expectations without full alignment.
Brand responsibility in a performance-driven world.
During SXSW, Pinyahta, in partnership with INK Communications Co., is hosting an intimate, invite-only brunch for marketing leaders who want to navigate the growing complexity of the role more strategically.
This isn’t a vent session. It’s a candid conversation about the structural realities of marketing leadership and the red flags that often only become visible after the job begins.
Featuring an informal discussion with:
Jocelyn Sexton
Vice President of Marketing, Growth Acceleration Partners
A global marketing leader known for building high-performance organizations that connect strategy with measurable growth. Jocelyn leads marketing initiatives supporting enterprise technology services and complex international sales cycles.
Marla Davies
Head of Future Work Insights & Content, Zoom
Marla explores how technology, leadership, and culture are reshaping the way organizations operate. Her work focuses on helping companies understand the evolving expectations of modern work and how leaders can adapt their strategies to navigate constant change.
Anita Tulsiani
Co-Founder & Fractional CMO, Sagely & Co.
A B2B product marketing leader with more than 20 years of experience, Anita specializes in positioning, messaging, and go-to-market execution. She helps organizations turn complex products and ideas into clear market impact.
Expect candid conversation, experienced perspective, and a room full of leaders who understand the weight.
Pinyahta is the first platform that reveals how companies truly support marketing leadership.
Verified leaders score companies across five predictors of role success, revealing whether a company treats marketing as a true 4P function or keeps it limited to execution. All scores are fully anonymous and use a standardized Likert scale, giving you consistent, low-variability feedback you can trust.
Scores signal the realities behind expectations vs. resources, cultural respect and trust, strategic inclusion, authority and autonomy, and willingness to invest.
Insider Insights
Pinyahta gives you the inside-out view you cannot get from interviews or job descriptions.
You see fully anonymous, verified insights from real marketing leaders, combined with select external data from platforms like Crunchbase to strengthen your understanding of how a company truly operates.
This clarity helps you choose which companies to trust, which roles to pursue, and when it is time to move on.
Community Support
High signal, low noise.
Regardless of membership tier, you can compare notes with other leaders, share productive solutions, pressure test decisions, and talk honestly about the realities of GTM leadership.
Paid members gain access to experienced mentors and a curated operator marketplace.
This is where you reclaim the joy in your work.
Built by someone who has lived it.
Pinyahta was founded by Cody Gillund, a twenty year marketing leader who has served in early stage startups, high growth companies, and executive roles across the GTM function. After repeatedly seeing talented leaders misled into misaligned roles or crushed by unrealistic expectations, she recognized a pattern. Leaders were not failing. They were being set up to fail.
Pinyahta is the result of asking one simple question.
What would happen if marketing leaders finally had the truth before and during the role that defines their career?
This platform is the answer.