Episode 03: Conversation with Stacy Graiko, Managing Director, Qualitative Research, Kantar

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Stacy Graiko shares her perspective on customer shifts and expectations for retailers, from a psychological perspective with a focus on Millenials and GenX, as well as short term considerations related to Covid-19. She also discusses the need for more gender parity and representation of woman in the fashion and retail industries.

Stacy is a GenXer, mom, research geek, believer in positive psychology and brand champion. She is passionate about helping brands create high quality connections with consumers. Her expertise is in brand strategy through qualitative research for CPG, health and beauty, food/beverage, fashion, automotive and service brands. She works collaboratively with Kantar resources to bring best minds thinking to clients.

Stacy is the Managing Director of Qualitative Research at Kantar. She is an advocate for women’s leadership, and author of the best-selling book Your Brand, The Women Entrepreneur’s Guide to Getting Paid to be Bold, Brilliant and Unapologetically You.

Learn more: www.linkedin.com/in/stacygraiko/ | Kantar

Hosted by: Christopher Lacy, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Produced by: Joshua Williams, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Executive Producer: Fashion Consort

Follow the podcast on Instagram: @RetailRevolutionPodcast

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Joshua Williams is an award-winning creative director, writer and educator.  He has lectured and consulted worldwide, specializing in omni-channel retail and fashion branding, most recently at ISEM (Spain) and EAFIT (Colombia), and for brands such as Miguelina, JM, Andrew Marc and Anne Valerie Hash.  He is a full time professor and former fashion department chair at Berkeley College and teaches regularly at FIT, LIM and The New School.  He has developed curriculum and programming, including the fashion design program for Bergen Community College, that connects fashion business, design, media and technology.  His work has been seen in major fashion magazines and on the New York City stage. Joshua is a graduate of FIT’s Global Fashion Management (MPS) program, and has been the director and host of the Faces & Places in Fashion lecture series at FIT since 2010.

http://www.joshuatwilliams.com
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