Live at CES, I sat down with Tom Donaldson, Senior Vice President and Head of Creative Play Lab at LEGO Group, to unpack LEGO Smart Play—a new system that adds responsiveness, sound, light, and physical feedback to the LEGO brick universe without abandoning what made LEGO iconic in the first place.

In my recent conversation with Rustam Dastoor, the EVP of Marketing and Communications for MasterCard in the Americas, I was reminded that timeless ideas in marketing don’t die—they evolve. The “Priceless” campaign, launched in 1997, remains one of the most enduring brand platforms in history. Yet what struck me most wasn’t its longevity—it was its continued relevance in a world defined by AI, data, and ever-shorter attention spans.

What does it take to steward one of America’s most beloved—and scrutinized—brands through an era of cultural transformation? That’s the question I tackled with Tim Ellis, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of the National Football League, during a live episode of The Speed of Culture podcast at the POSSIBLE Conference in Miami.