Browse by Keynote Topic Browse by Speaker Speaker News Virtual Events About Lavin FAQ Contact
  • retail

Retail Speakers

 

Our retail speakers tackle the most important questions for your business. What are the latest retail trends within your industry? How are demographic and technological shifts affecting your customer base? What can your company do to stay ahead of the curve? These speakers are on the front lines of where retail is now, and where it’s heading.

 
9
Retail
Speakers
Sort By:
Doug Stephens

Retail and Consumer Futurist | Internationally Acclaimed Author and Founder of Retail Prophet

Hand-picked by iconic companies like IKEA, Intel, and Walmart to redefine their retail strategies, Doug Stephens is one of the most influential retail futurists on the planet. In visually dynamic, fully customized, and up-to-the-minute keynotes, Stephens reveals the deep, tectonic shifts that will forever change the industry in a post-pandemic world, and what you can—and must—do to become a true competitor in it.     
Neil Hoyne

Author of Converted | Chief Strategist at Google | Senior Fellow at Wharton

Too many companies have a short-term strategy when it comes to data: focusing on the point-of-purchase moment with a customer, rather than building their business around long-term relationships. A Senior Fellow at Wharton and Google’s Chief Measurement Strategist, Neil Hoyne has led over 2,500 engagements with the world’s biggest advertisers—helping them acquire millions of customers, improve conversion rates by over 400 percent, and generate billions in incremental revenue. In his debut book Converted, he shows us how to sharpen our long-term marketing strategy and unleash true value.
Joe Jackman

Founder and CEO of Jackman | Author of The Reinventionist Mindset

Change is everywhere, and it’s coming for us fast. Despite knowing this―and seeing the impact on our businesses and livelihoods―our human instinct remains to resist. But what if we could reprogram ourselves to see change as not only inevitable, but good? As something to run towards, rather than away from? Wouldn’t we all be better off? According to Joe Jackman, Founder and CEO of Jackman Reinvents—Yes, we would. This bold belief is why iconic brands and leadership teams turn to Jackman as their secret weapon in spearheading remarkable change—transforming the way we look at strategy, design, culture, and customer experiences that truly engage. 
Ellen Bennett

Founder and CEO of Hedley & Bennett | Author of Dream First, Details Later

At 25 years old Ellen Bennett was a cook at a 2-Michelin-Star restaurant in Los Angeles; yet she was still tying on the same $5 apron found in every diner and pub along Hollywood Boulevard. So she took her modest $300 savings and turned it into the largest gourmet apron manufacturer in the world. Now the founder and CEO at Hedley & Bennett—a brand beloved by the likes of Martha Stewart and Momofuku’s David Chang—this culinary entrepreneur explains how you, too, can jumpstart your own idea with charisma and heart. 
 
Maureen Chiquet

Former Global CEO of Chanel | Former President of Banana Republic

As Global CEO of Chanel, Maureen Chiquet steered global brands through a decade of disruption, and she did so with traditionally ‘feminine’ skills of empathy and communication. Now, she speaks on the value of having women in top leadership positions—and what we can all learn from injecting more compassion and collaboration into the workplace.
David Sax

Author of The Future is Analog, The Soul of an Entrepreneur and The Revenge of Analog

Digital was supposed to change the world. But the need for real things is greater than ever. This is the business story that innovation speaker David Sax broke in The Revenge of Analog, which shows how retailers and tech giants are fusing screens with analog processes to outsmart the competition. It’s time for a sense of balance, Sax says—for wellbeing, as well as the bottom line.
 
Bonnie Brooks

CEO of Chico's FAS | Former CEO of Hudson’s Bay Company

“Leadership is about finding ways to get things done,” says Bonnie Brooks, the CEO who restored Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor to their rightful places as world-class retailers. As the first female President and CEO of Hudson’s Bay Company, Brooks led sweeping, institutional changes, bringing North America’s oldest company back from the brink of failure. 
 
Bianca Bosker

Author of Cork Dork, the Instant New York Times Bestseller | Contributing Editor at The Atlantic

Bianca Bosker is obsessed with obsession. It’s inspired her award-winning stories for outlets like The New Yorker and The Atlantic, as well as her New York Times bestseller Cork Dork, which traces her journey from tech reporter to sommelier. 
 
 
Joe Mimran

Founder, Joe Fresh | Co-Founder and Chairman of Gibralter & Company

Joe Mimran is a true innovator—of retail, design, business, manufacturing—he disrupted the fashion industry before people even had a word for it. In his keynotes he details the methods he used to grow Joe Fresh, Club Monaco, and Alfred Sung—some of the industry’s best-known brands, into global successes.