Since both my books, Momentum: How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age, and The Zen of Social Media Marketing (4th Edition), are on bookshelves now, I've finally turned towards curating my own reading list for the fall.

For the ideal reading recommendations, I turned to some leading CMOs. Here are what 19 CMOs are eager to read this season:

1. Meagan Eisenberg Meagen Eisenberg- CMO of MongoDB

Meagen brings more than 19 years of experience in the high-tech industry to her role at MongoDB. She has been recognized as one of the Top 50 most retweeted by mid-sized marketers according to AdWeek and one of the Top 25 B2B Marketing Influencers according to InsideView. In 2014, she won the Marketers that Matter award.

2. Lauren Crampsie - CMO of Ogilvy and Mather

As Ogilvy & Mather's chief brand champion, Lauren is responsible for the direction and reputation of one of the world's most recognized brands and award-winning creative agencies. She is responsible for overall brand strategy, global communications, social media, and corporate responsibility and leads new business on behalf the agency.

3. Linda Boff - CMO of GE

Boff is GE's Chief Marketing officer leading all global marketing, brand, sponsorship, and customer experience for the company. In her role, Boff is focused on GE's transformation to a digital industrial company, leading industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive.

4. Jascha Kaykas-Wolff - CMO at Mozilla

As Chief Marketing Officer, Jascha Kaykas-Wolff leads Mozilla's global marketing strategy and organization. Jascha believes in two key principles: Find opportunities where no one else is looking; And, never fail the same way twice.

5. Maggie Chan Jones - CMO at SAP

As CMO of SAP, Maggie Chan Jones is responsible for leading SAP's global advertising and brand experience, customer audience marketing, and field and partner marketing functions across all markets. Her mission is to bring to life SAP's vision to help the world run better and improve people's lives through storytelling, and to accelerate company growth.

6. John Kennedy - CMO at Xerox

John Kennedy is chief marketing officer for Xerox. He was named to this position and appointed a corporate vice president in July 2014. Kennedy is responsible for advertising, experiential marketing, public relations, internal communications, integrated campaigns, and interactive and social marketing.

7. Jeff Rohrs - CMO of Yext

Jeff serves as CMO for Yext, the company that puts business on the map with the award-winning Yext Location Cloud. Prior to joining Yext, Jeff served as Vice President of Marketing Insights for Salesforce and ExactTarget where he built the content marketing and thought-leadership teams.

8. Jennifer Marchetti - CMO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate

Jennifer Marchetti is the Chief Marketing Officer for Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and leads the teams responsible for brand marketing strategy, direct marketing, online marketing, franchise sales marketing, and communications.

9. Mark Galante - CMO of PURE Insurance

As Chief Marketing Officer of the PURE Group, Mark leads a team that is responsible for development of the PURE brand, marketing & communications, distribution strategy and effectiveness, and member engagement & advocacy.

10. Jim Trebilcock - CMO of Dr Pepper Snapple Group

James "Jim" Trebilcock is the executive vice president and chief commercial officer (CCO) for Dr Pepper Snapple Group. In this role, he leads and oversees all areas of commercial brand management and marketing, as well as national account sales, shopper marketing, category management, revenue margin management and integrated business planning.

11. Jackie Yeaney - CMO of Red Hat

Jackie Yeaney is responsible for orchestrating Red Hat's strategy formulation and planning, Brand, Global Programs, Global Partner Marketing, Marketing Communications, Marketing Operations, and Global Field Marketing.

12. Lisa Petrilli - CMO of TheThread.Life

Lisa Petrilli is Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer of Vanda Inc. and previously led a $750 million global medication delivery business at Baxter International. She is author of The Introvert's Guide to Success in Business and Leadership eBook, and may be found on Twitter @LisaPetrilli.

13. Ian Gertler - CMO of Symplegades Inc.

Ian Gertler is an experienced marketing, communications, editorial and digital strategy executive that has focused on connecting the dots between people, processes and technology. He has garnered many accolades including the Forbes Top 50 CMOs by Social Influence and Top 100 Digital Transformation Influencers lists. Twitter: @iangertler

14. Alan See - CMO of CMO Temps

Alan See is Principal and Chief Marketing Officer at CMO Temps, LLC. He is recognized as a "Top 50 Most Influential CMO on Social Media" by Forbes, and "Content Marketer of the Year" by the American Marketing Association.

15. Tim Peters - CMO of Canadian Hero Fund

Tim Peters is the CMO of Canadian Hero Fund where he leads all marketing and fundraising initiatives, and also the VP Marketing and Revenue Operations at ScribbleLive. Prior to this Tim was the VP of Marketing at Ideal.com a leading HRTech startup.

16. Mike Spadier - CMO of Onnit

Mike Spadier is Chief Marketing Officer at Onnit and has over 15 years of experience in Online Marketing. Since joining Onnit in 2013, he has helped it go from a small supplement producer to one of the fastest growing private companies (Inc 5000 in 2015) and most respected health/fitness lifestyle brands in the world.

17. Katherine Dillon - CMO of L2 Inc.

Katherine Dillon is the Creative Director at L2, where she oversees the Design, Marketing, Editorial and Event teams. She is also a Professor at NYU ITP, where she teaches Visual Language, User Experience Design and Persuasion Design.

18. Agathe Blanchon-Ehrsam - CMO of Vivaldi

Agathe Blanchon-Ehrsam is the Chief Marketing Officer of Vivaldi. She brings over 15 years of strategic consulting experience.

19. Dayle Rodriguez, CMO of Sentab

Dayle Rodriguez Chief Marketing Officer of Sentab has several years of experience working specifically with third sector start-ups in a wide variety of vocations.

There you have it!

If you're interested in taking a sneak peek at my latest book, you can check out an exclusive free chapter of Momentum here.

Published on: Oct 3, 2016