Eric Leininger Email & Phone Number

Barrington Hills, IL, US

Barrington, Illinois

Eric Leininger Consulting, LLC provides senior management with global perspective on the effectiveness of their consumer insights and marketing organizations, marketing strategy, and executive education for consumer insights and marketing professionals. We are able to add value in unique ways due to my combination of executive leadership responsibilities.

Joined the Kellogg faculty full-time in September, 2010, from McDonald's Corporation, where I was Corporate Senior Vice-President since 2004. I have been an affiliated faculty member with Kellogg since 2007. In partnership with Professor Gregory Carpenter, I co-lead the Kellogg Chief Marketing Officer Program. The Kellogg CMO Program is the first.

I was a member of McDonald's Senior Leadership Team, comprised of the business unit leaders and the global, C-suite function heads. My primary responsbility was global consumer and business insights; additionally, I was responsble for McDonald's global marketing training and global marketing planning.

At Kraft, I held a variety of marketing services and information positions, including: SVP, Marketing Services, Vice-President, Consumer Insights and Strategy, Sr Director of Sales Information and Technology, and Sr Director of Marketing Information for Kraft's Grocery Products Division.

Mba, Marketing, Organization Strategy, Analytics

Activities and Societies: Elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, Business Honorary Society

Ma, History

Ba, American Civilization

Attended Class Of 1975