Grill The Marketer March Guest Announcement: Bec Stott & Stephen Ellis Join Carma Levene This Month

The first installment of Grill The Marketer for 2026 has some incredible guests from the Not-For-Profit world, Bec Stott and Stephen Ellis

We're back for our 7th year of candid questions from curious marketing enthusiasts!

Grill The Marketer, an unscripted marketing themed Q&A with a rotating guest panelist, hosted by Carma Levene and MC'd by Jacqueline Baril announced the guest panelists for March as Bec Stott & Stephen Ellis.

Bec Stott

A nationally recognised philanthropy and fundraising leader, currently serving as General Manager of Philanthropy at Anglicare WA. With more than 20 years of experience across health, community services and peak sector organisations - including Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities WA, and voluntary positions with the Fundraising Institute Australia - Bec brings a practical and values-driven lens to reimagining the role of philanthropy in times of disruption.

Bec’s work focuses on reimagining fundraising and partnerships to respond to complex, interconnected social challenges, including housing insecurity, poverty and family violence. She is known for championing ethical, community led approaches that reclaim trust, power and purpose in philanthropy, as well as leading teams and partners through periods of uncertainty and change.

Her leadership and impact have been recognised through multiple sector honours, including FIA Fundraiser of the Year (2026), FIA WA Young Fundraiser of the Year, Fundraising & Philanthropy’s Mover and Shaker (2025), FIA Team of the year and Fellowship of the Fundraising Institute of Australia.

As a speaker, Bec is candid, reflective and future focused. She invites fundraisers, funders and leaders to rebuild systems, relationships and cultures that are resilient, human and fit for what comes next, positioning philanthropy not just as a response to crisis, but as a force for long term transformation.

Stephen Ellis 

The founder of Thirdculture and a marketing strategist with 25 years of experience driving transformation and growth in major markets worldwide.

While he’s worked with brands such as Belvedere Vodka, Dentsu, and IBM he’s dedicated the majority of his career to helping the world’s most impactful not-for-profit organisations. This includes having worked as a global marketing director at World Vision, and consulting to organisations such as Red Cross, UNHCR, and The Salvation Army.

Stephen recently founded Thirdculture, an independent agency that helps purposeful brands influence action. His small but mighty team work with brands such as Anglicare, Foodbank, the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, and MSWA. Oh, and a bunch of organisations across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Italy, and the United States.

Your host, Carma Levene is a marketing consultant with experience in the NFP category, with Telethon Community Cinemas as a long-standing client, entering her third year on the Oasis Ball Committee, where all funds go to The Salvos Oasis Project and and was most recently recognised as a finalist int he NFP Marketing category at the Australian Marketing Institute Awards for Excellence.

Come ask your NFP questions, or take us on a tangent - this event goes where the audience take it.

You'll enjoy the community, the pizza, and the wealth of experience of our panel.

For a limited time there's also Season Tickets - where you'll save money and secure your seats for all 5 events in 2026.

Tickets

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The Event Background

Grill The Marketer, in partnership with the Australian Marketing Institute, welcomes all marketing enthusiasts - professional marketers of all kinds, business owners and managers, marketing students - if you have marketing questions, come and ask them.

Don't have a specific question, but want to chat marketing with people who LOVE to talk about marketing?

Great! Come along.

Are you looking for a marketing role or internship? Maybe we can introduce you to your new boss. It's happened countless times.

Our community is generous with their time and skills and believe that when it comes to marketing, the better you do, the better we all do. That's why so many awesome projects and collabs have been born from this event. We LOVE connecting our networks.

We don't enjoy events with pitches, boring PowerPoint pressos, and gimmicks, so this is the only rule of Grill The Marketer. It is simply our expertise directed by your questions. What would go for a bundle in consulting fees or training dollars, comes to you in this fun package for less than your Tuesday night Uber Eats order.

Some of our previous guests include; Leigh Wood, Tess Palmyre, Zeina Khodr, Tim Woodsmith, Matt Oakley, Nikki Atack, Kate Kirwin, Hannah Muirhead, Amber Martin, Alison Balch, David "DG" Gardiner, Kelly Townson, Seva Mozhaev (@sevspics), Cory Gale, Callum Mackenzie, and Brittany Garbutt.

No matter the guest or topic, we bring you the most interesting people willing to put themselves out there to answer whatever you throw at them.

You'll love the informal format and awesome community vibe while we help you explore your marketing curiosity with passion and the odd tangent.

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Cost: $55+bf (includes pizza)

Date: Multiple

Where: The Court | Verdict Bar (upstairs)

Time: 5.30pm - 9pm

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More info?

Come along, grab yourself a drink at the bar and mingle. Our crew's super welcoming and friendly so you'll be totally fine to rock up by yourself.

Our MC will let you know when it's time to start. We'll introduce ourselves, outline the event, and intro your marketing question answer-ers.

If you're called on to ask your question, please say your name and the business/industry your question relates to and we'll do our best to tailor our answers to you specifically.

Once we’re done feel free to hang around for drinks and to chat more about marketing 🙂

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Grill The Marketer came about from talking to marketing event attendees who really just wanted their questions answered without the fluff and sales agenda.

Grill The Marketer is presented in partnership with the Australian Marketing Institute, and affords those who hold the Certified Practising Marketer (CPM) certification to collect points towards maintaining your CPM status.

We provide membership ticket pricing for PADC & ACA members and a student discount, contact us for more info.

Want to make sure we answer your specific question? Send them in advance to hey@themarketer.news