The Voice of Retail Special Retail Marketing Conference edition featuring Trinh Tham from Sobeys, Jonathan Cavaliere and Shannae Ingleton Smith
Welcome to the Voice of Retail special Retail Marketing Conference edition, I’m your host Michael LeBlanc and this special edition podcast is brought to you in conjunction with Retail Council of Canada.
Recorded live in Toronto April 18th 2019 at Retail Council of Canada’s annual Retail Marketing conference, this special edition podcast features two of my on-stage interviews plus insights from attendees.
First I chat with two of Canada’s top influencers, Jonathan Cavilier and Shannae Ingleton . They discuss their tradecraft, experiences working with brands and advice for retailers on how to work with key influencers to achieve their objectives.
https://www.instagram.com/torontoshay/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/jonathancavaliere/?hl=en
Next, my fireside conversation with Trinh Tham, Vice President of brand strategy and planning at Sobey’s. We talk about the tradecraft of the modern retail marketer
We’ll wrap up with my thoughts around the key moments and insights from Canada’s leading retail marketing conference.
At the end of a great day of retail marketing thought leadership and networking with old friends, colleagues and new friends, we were all treated to amazing cocktails sponsored by Emilio at Ad Mill featuring retail marketing/agency veteran Paul Allemby’s latest venture, a bespoke local-made gin call Levenswater.
https://www.levenswater.com/
Going to get Paul onto an upcoming episode of TVOR to tell us his amazing story of moving from leading top marketing agencies, to following his passion and creating an award winning spirit!
You can see the whole agenda from Retail Marketing here: http://racsymposium.ca/schedule
That’s a wrap on this very special edition of The Voice of Retail.
I’m michael leblanc founder and president of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc, and you can learn more about me at www.meleblanc.co or on LInkedIn, and stay tuned for our next regular edition of the podcast available each and every Friday. If you like this edition please subscribe, rate it on iTunes and tell all your LinkedIn friends! Until next time, have a great week!
Michael LeBlanc is the president and founder of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc, a senior retail advisor, keynote speaker and now, media entrepreneur. He has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.
Michael has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions and participated worldwide in thought leadership panels, most recently on the main stage in Toronto at Retail Council of Canada’s Retail Marketing conference with leaders from Walmart & Google. He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience with Levi's, Black & Decker, Hudson's Bay, CanWest Media, Pandora Jewellery, The Shopping Channel and Retail Council of Canada to his advisory, speaking and media practice.
Michael produces and hosts a network of leading retail trade podcasts, including the award-winning No.1 independent retail industry podcast in America, Remarkable Retail with his partner, Dallas-based best-selling author Steve Dennis; Canada's top retail industry podcast The Voice of Retail and Canada's top food industry and one of the top Canadian-produced management independent podcasts in the country, The Food Professor with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois from Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Rethink Retail has recognized Michael as one of the top global retail experts for the fifth year in a row, the National Retail Federation has designated Michael as on their Top Retail Voices for 2025, Thinkers 360 has named him on of the Top 50 global thought leaders in retail, RTIH has named him a top 100 global though leader in retail technology and Coresight Research has named Michael a Retail AI Influencer. If you are a BBQ fan, you can tune into Michael’s cooking show, Last Request BBQ, on YouTube, Instagram, X and yes, TikTok.
Michael is available for keynote presentations helping retailers, brands and retail industry insiders explaining the current state and future of the retail industry in North America and around the world.