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Blade to Greatness
Exploring the essential skills & qualities every retail executive needs to successfully lead their teams and their business.
In each episode of The Retail Razor: Blade to Greatness our hosts, RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert & NRF 2025 Retail Voice, Ricardo Belmar, and RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert, Casey Golden, hear from a seasoned retail industry leader who shares their greatest insights and wisdom on retail career growth and operational excellence. Whether we’re talking about the corporate office or store teams, together we’ll uncover valuable tips and advice that you can apply to your own retail career journey.
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Ricardo Belmar is an NRF Top Retail Voice for 2025 & a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2021 – 2026. Thinkers 360 has named him a Top 10 Retail, a Top 25 AGI & Careers, a Top 50 Agentic AI & Management, & a Top 100 Digital Transformation & Transformation Thought Leader, plus a Top Digital Voice for 2024 & 2025. He is an advisory council member at George Mason University’s Center for Retail Transformation and the Retail Cloud Alliance. He was most recently the director partner marketing for retail & consumer goods in the Americas at Microsoft.
Casey Golden, is the North America Leader for Retail & Consumer Goods at CI&T, and CEO of Luxlock. She is, a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2023 - 2026, and a Retail Cloud Alliance advisory council member. After a career on the fashion and supply chain technology side of the business, Casey is obsessed with the customer relationship between the brand and the consumer and is slaying franken-stacks and building retail tech!
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The Accelerator Mindset & What Retail Tech Founders Get Wrong
Steve Worthy on The Accelerator Mindset - founder fit, product market fit, and the question retail buyers are really asking. Steve Worthy is back on Blade to Greatness to break down what he calls the ...
Retail Leadership Coaching & The 80/20 Rule That Defines It
In this episode, April Sabral reframes retail leadership coaching as an operating shift from managing to coaching, anchored by an 80/20 listening test that reveals whether you truly coach. She explain...
Scaling Innovation - A Retail COO's Playbook
The Vitamin Shoppe’s Andy Laudato on How Retail Leaders Are Scaling Innovation Without Losing Their Culture. Scaling innovation is one of the hardest skills in retail leadership, and it’s exactly what...
Future-Proof Skills Start on the Sales Floor
Future-Proof Skills - Ron Thurston on the human-centric skills AI can't replace. Everyone is talking about how AI is transforming retail. Far fewer people are talking about the future-proof skills tha...