CARL
BOUTET
AUTHOR, SPEAKER & RETAIL PRESCRIPTOR
TOP 100 GLOBAL MOST INFLUENTIAL RETAIL THINKERS
“ The only constant is change. Most importantly, how we adapt.”
Carl is a Montreal based business strategist and executive advisor with over 25 years of hands-on operational, marketing, merchandising and retail executive experience. He has worked across a full array of retailer environments from the very large, such as 10 years with Costco Wholesale to working as a strategy consultant for a group of 800 independent retailers across Canada.
As the founder of StudioRx, he advises retailers, business leaders, b2c solution providers, companies and researchers on how to tailor their solutions according to consumers’ evolving needs and build effective commercial strategies.
Recently named by Rethink Retail among the world's 100 top most influential retail thinkers , he's keynoted on major stages & screens around the world including NRF Big Show, ShopTalk, RCC STORE, Store of the Future (UK), ASEAN Retail Summit, Egyptian Retail Summit and Economic Forum of the Americas. He is a regular contributor to CBC/Radio-Canada, BNN Bloomberg TV, CBC News, Radio Canada Premiere and CTV News. This past May, he published his first book; The Great Acceleration: The Race to Retail Resilience.
He holds an MBA from Queen’s University and advises several startups, retail associations and innovation labs including the Retail Council of Canada and is the principal advisor for the Retail Innovation Lab at McGill University. He is also, lead marketing instructor at the McGill University Executive Institute and adjunct faculty at Asian Institute of Technology.
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THE GREAT ACCELERATION: THE RACE TO RETAIL RESILIENCE
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CONSUMPTION TRENDS: IMPACTS OF THE PANDEMIC AND STRATEGIES FOR RECOVERY
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INTERNATIONAL MARKETING AND RETAIL: BEST PRACTICES AROUND THE WORLD
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CONSUMER SCIENCES: WHAT ARE THE NEEDS TODAY, TOMORROW HOW TO ADAPT TO IT?
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THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY AND DATA RETAIL
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LOCATION : MONTREAL, CAN
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The Great Acceleration, instigated by the many profound impacts of the greatest global pandemic of the past century opened several portals into the future.
Following The Great Depression and The Great Recession, The Great Acceleration exposed many business model frailties that we knew needed addressing, yet didn’t expect to occur so rapidly. A rapidly blurring of physical and digital commerce was expected to only occur a decade later. Hence a race to resilience began. Looking to rapidly placate those shortcomings with the proper human and technological resources.
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