Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson

Regan and Eugenia Blackstone, Chief Marketing Officer for Iris Powered by Generali (Iris), dive into the idea that future-readiness is about being “planned but not planted,” and why honest communication must be an intentional part of your business transformation plan (and not an afterthought). They explore misconceptions about innovation (hint: you’ve got to keep taking those 3-point shots), and how taking bite-sized steps and remaining flexible are key to creating your long-term roadmap.

Key Takeaways

• The importance of patience and childlike wonder when anticipating the future. 
• Why innovation isn’t about process, but about staying in the game and creating the right culture.
• How Nike’s revolutionary Flyknit technology drew inspiration from ancient techniques. 
• The role of an enduring brand purpose when delivering value in different contexts. 
• Why multi-directional, honest communication determines the success or failure of any transformation effort.

Resources

Connect with Eugenia on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenia-blackstone-marketing/

Learn about Eugenia’s company, Iris Powered by Generali: https://www.irisidentityprotection.com/

About Our Guest 

Eugenia Blackstone is the Chief Marketing Officer for Iris Powered by Generali (Iris), boasting over 20 years of experience developing marketing, brand awareness, and media strategies for international businesses. Ms. Blackstone started her career with Caterpillar Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of construction and mining equipment, where she consistently drove revenue growth and increased sales in her role as a client representative helping to develop tactical marketing initiatives. 

Since the start of 2024, Ms. Blackstone has continued to drive branding and media awareness strategies for Iris, helping to secure nearly 50 industry awards during her tenure as CMO. Ms. Blackstone was named to the 2024 Forbes Entrepreneurial CMO 50 List, recognized for “her ability to drive business transformation and create a new value proposition, increasing both relevancy and access to the tools Iris provides for both the enterprises they serve and the hundreds of millions of consumers served in turn.” She was also named as one of Pavilion’s 50 CMOs to in Watch 2024.

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson 

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

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About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

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Regan and Dan Slagen, Chief Marketing Officer at Tomorrow.io, dive into the ways that being comfortable with the uncomfortable enhances future-readiness, and why throwing out the standard playbook and setting up adaptive systems are essential for staying ahead. They explore how Dan determines which risks are worth taking, and why fostering a non-traditional culture of openness and honesty empowers his team to outperform the competition.

Key Takeaways

• Why future-ready is being able to quickly adapt your business without major disruptions.
• How storytelling and vulnerability create a safe space to share wild, imaginative ideas.
• Why ongoing signals tests are learning opportunities for effective risk assessment.
• The importance of questioning data to prevent confirmation bias.
• How creativity and agility in operational tempo are key to being prepared for the future. 

Resources

Connect with Dan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-slagen-718675a/

Learn about Dan’s company, Tomorrow.io: https://www.tomorrow.io/

About Our Guest 

As the current CMO at Tomorrow.io, Dan Slagen is a go-to-market executive with experience in leading and scaling disruptive global functions across various industries both public and private.

Selected by Forbes as a Top 50 Entrepreneurial CMO, Dan has been featured in The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, NPR, CNBC, BBC, WSJ, Bloomberg, Fortune, etc.

Dan is a frequent speaker and advisor on innovative trends and the author of the “best selling” book Understanding Start-Up CEOs, providing insights on how to work effectively with CEOs of industry-leading companies.

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson 

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

If you love what you’re getting out of our show please subscribe, rate and review.

About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

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Regan and Lesley Pinckney, Head of Marketing for Incubation and Disruptive Innovation at Intel, delve into why understanding your customer’s needs and wants is the first building block to future-ready your company and how simple acts like reading short stories can dramatically broaden your thinking, so you can take in new ideas more effectively. They explore the ways that leaders often misinterpret and misuse trends, and why it’s important to understand what’s driving them to get meaningful insights when preparing for the future. 

Key Takeaways

• How assumptions and inside-out (vs. outside-in) thinking limits future opportunities.
• Why the future is a place where anything can be different (even things that seem impossible to change today).
• The importance of bumping up against “the other” to widen your thinking patterns.
• Why customer pain points are a trend that never goes out of style.
• How future-readiness is an orientation that can be practiced across your whole life.

Resources

Connect with Lesley on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lpinckney/

Learn about Lesley’s company, Intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html

About Our Guest 

Lesley Pinckney is an accomplished marketing and digital transformation expert with a track record of building successful brands and businesses. With a focus on youth and diverse audiences, she has been a driver of marketing innovation for Fortune 500 brands across multiple categories. She’s held leadership positions in both public companies and start-ups. 

Joining Intel in spring of 2021, Lesley serves as Head of Marketing for Incubation & Disruptive Innovation. In this role, she oversees marketing and communication for the IDI business group and all ventures within IDI. IDI combines vision technology and AI to develop vertically integrated solutions across categories like robotics, finance, healthcare and retail.

Lesley has also built a successful speaking career, making appearances at conferences including SXSW, EventTech, ANA, BlogHer and Mediapost Summit. She has also served on several non-profit boards focused on improving outcomes for youth and currently sits on the Board of Directors for Near North Montessori School in Chicago.

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson 

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

If you love what you’re  getting out of our show please subscribe, rate and review.

About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

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Regan and Lynn Teo, Chief Marketing Officer of Northwestern Mutual, delve into the importance of optimism and a possibility mindset when anticipating the future, and why systems thinking enables you to be at the forefront of marketing. They explore the ways that empathy and profound human insights play a fundamental role in Lynn’s work, and how listening to cues about people’s anxieties can help leaders pick the right spot on the innovation spectrum.

Key Takeaways

• Why simple observations in nature help you notice patterns and create new neural connections.
• How brands like Red Bull and Jones Soda innovate by introducing products in new contexts.
• The importance of team dialogue and dot connecting in the insights process.
• The role of anomalies and contrarian data in anticipating customers’ future needs.
• Why removing fear and anxiety are key to building a future-ready company culture.

Resources

Connect with Lynn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnteo/

Learn about Lynn’s company, Northwestern Mutual:

https://www.northwesternmutual.com/

About Our Guest 

Lynn Teo is the Chief Marketing Officer of Northwestern Mutual. Her responsibilities encompass brand strategy, product marketing, field and customer experience marketing, digital marketing, marketing technology, operations, and consumer insights/market research. She is a data-driven and revenue-centric tech sector marketing executive specializing in driving growth for the enterprise through the buildout of modern marketing capabilities.

Ms. Teo joined Northwestern Mutual in September 2022. In her 24 years in industry, she has led digital transformation initiatives in a broad range of industries: advertising, publishing, education, retail, finance, travel, and health.

She is a seasoned international executive who has lived and worked in the US, Europe, and Asia during her career. From 2014 – 2018, Lynn assumed roles as VP Digital Marketing and Head of Marketing (Asia Pacific & Japan) at CA Technologies. From 2018 – 2021, Lynn expanded her scope of responsibilities as VP (CMO) of Global Marketing and Customer Experience at Wolters Kluwer Health. Before joining Northwestern Mutual, Lynn served as the CMO of three lines of business at Thomson Reuters. 

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson 

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

If you love what you’re  getting out of our show please subscribe, rate and review.

About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

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Regan and Julie DeLoca, CEO and Founder of LOCA Marketing, dive into the power of presence and deep listening when anticipating the future’s possibilities, and the 5 elements that enable companies to cultivate an enduring, resilient brand that’s positioned to thrive in the long-term. They explore how to pinpoint and interpret cultural zeitgeists, and how seeking discomfort and taking risks are key to staying ahead as a leader today.

Key Takeaways

• How meditation, Pilates and pickleball help your mind to be open and hyper-aware.
• The role gut instinct and risk-taking play when channeling what’s next.
• The 5 simple questions to make insights about the cultural zeitgeist actionable. 
• Why authenticity, consistency, community engagement and disruption are the core elements of an intuitive, future-ready brand.
• How Rihanna and Savage X Fenty harnessed the power of 3 paradigm shifts to usurp Victoria’s Secret. 

Resources

Connect with Julie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesilverstonedeloca/

Learn about Julie’s company, LOCA Marketing: https://locamarketing.com/

About Our Guest 

Julie is an innovative marketer, storyteller and brand builder with expertise in fashion, tech, beauty and luxury marketing and advertising. An agency president, fashion and software CMO, start-up advisor, mentor and social good advocate, Julie brings 20+ years of experience to new and traditional media with an emphasis on brand strategy and immersive, experiential marketing and programming.

Prior to launching her own company, she ran the marketing departments of Rebecca Minkoff and Eli Tahari and held various account management, new business and strategic positions at ad agencies on both coasts. Julie is a passionate mentor for start-ups within the retail and fashion-tech space via The New York Fashion Tech Lab, Springboard Enterprises and Colgate University’s entrepreneurship program, TIA. She is active in non-profits, She’s The First and The One Love Foundation. Julie speaks about fashion-tech, women’s entrepreneurship and the future of retail. 

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson 

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

If you love what you’re  getting out of our show please subscribe, rate and review.

About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

Website: https://www.reganrobinson.com/

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Regan and Ryan Anderson, Vice President of Global Research and Insights at MillerKnoll, delve into their shared love of using historical research to anticipate the future, and the importance of moving beyond the hype to consider the potential implications of what’s happening today. They explore the ways that human behavior and the social sciences play a key role in Ryan’s work, and how seizing new opportunities begins with a clear hypothesis and a desire to know the role you want to play in shaping the future.

Key Takeaways

Why curiosity and seeing intersections are the starting point for future-oriented thinking.

How imagination takes margin and intentionality to foster creative bursts.

The questions to ask when looking to history for insights on the future’s possibilities.

How to use Gartner’s Hype Cycle to assess what ideas and innovations could stand the test of time.

The importance of creating psychologically safe spaces to question the status quo.

Resources

Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryaningr/

Learn about Ryan’s company, MillerKnoll: https://www.millerknoll.com/

Learn more about Gartner’s Hype Cycle: https://shorturl.at/iUYZ4

About Our Guest

Ryan Anderson serves as Vice President of Global Research and Insights at MillerKnoll. His team leads MillerKnoll’s research, shares insights publicly across the world, and provides workplace strategy and application design services to MillerKnoll customers.

With nearly thirty years of industry experience, Ryan’s work has centered on how the places we inhabit can be better designed to support healthy, inclusive, and productive communities. Ryan hosts MillerKnoll’s About Place podcast on the future of the workplace and regularly speaks at public events about MillerKnoll’s historical and current research.

He is a member of the SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) Executive Network, an Executive Fellow at Woxsen University in Hyderabad India, and has been featured in a wide variety of publications such as The Wall Street Journal, NPR, the BBC, Fortune, Bloomberg, and beyond.

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

If you love what you’re getting out of our show please subscribe, rate and review.

About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

Website: https://www.reganrobinson.com/

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Regan and Lori Mazan, President and Co-Founder of Sounding Board Inc., dive into the idea that future-readiness is an electricity that lets you know that change is coming, and why pattern interrupts, rhythmic movement and combining stillness with nature helps you separate the signal from the noise. They explore the concept of a Big Leap from Lori’s book (which is a clear, even blunt articulation of aspirations and the change that’s needed in the future), and how a diverse company culture that allows for failure and learning is key to prompting constant futures thinking.

Key Takeaways

• Why naming and substituting routines with something new fosters future-oriented thinking.
• How to apply Tai Chi’s maximum and minimum practice to get through resistance.
• The importance of talking to customers when building momentum for change.
• Why naming your Big Leap and working from the future-back is key to making significant progress.
• How spending time in the future can feel scary and risky, but it’s also what makes you feel alive.

Resources

Connect with Lori Mazan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorimazan/

Learn about Lori’s company, Sounding Board Inc: https://www.soundingboardinc.com/

Check out Lori’s book, “Leadership Revolution: The Future of Developing Dynamic Leaders” on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Revolution-Developing-Successful-Workforce/dp/139417182X

About Our Guest

Lori Mazan is a distinguished 25-year executive coach who has provided tens of thousands of coaching sessions to executives and CEO’s hailing from venture-backed startups to Fortune 100’s like Chevron and Citibank. She is the President, Co-Founder and Chief Coaching Officer of Sounding Board, the first customizable leadership coaching management platform offering a tech-driven, human-centric approach and a network of world-class coaches in more than 60 countries and over 15 languages.

Sounding Board has helped hyper growth companies like Chime and Zoom and legacy brands like Mozilla and Bloomberg advance their leaders’ performance at scale, and was named among the GSV EdTech 150 as one of 2021’s Most Transformational Growth Companies in Digital Learning. Sounding Board is also a GOLD GLOBEE® WINNER for Career and Workforce Readiness Solution—and most recently closed $30M in Series B funding in 2021.

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

If you love what you’re getting out of our show please subscribe, rate and review.

About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

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Regan and Roy Sexton, Director of Marketing at Clark Hill, delve into how his background in theater equips him with what’s needed to be future ready, and why his diverse passions provide a rich framework for seeing its possibilities. They explore the misconceptions about authenticity (which inherently promotes a long-term perspective), and how authentic leadership must be nurtured by creating a safe space for expression and learning from mistakes. 

Key Takeaways

• The importance of taking care of yourself so you’re equipped to seize strategic opportunities. 
• How movies, biographies and volunteering can sharpen your imagination skills. 
• What Taylor Swift and leaning into your true self have to do with fostering growth and the future.
• What the corporate lexicon gets wrong about authenticity (hint: it’s messy, uncomfortable and can’t be forced).
• Why foresight and strategic planning are non-linear, creative and collaborative processes.

Resources

Connect with Roy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/royesexton/

Learn about Roy’s company, Clark Hill: https://www.clarkhill.com/

About Our Guest 

Roy Sexton leads Clark Hill’s marketing, branding and communications efforts in collaboration with the firm’s exceptional team of marketing and business development professionals. He has over 25 years of experience in marketing, communications, business development and strategic planning.

Roy was named one of INvolve People’s 2023 Top 100 OUTstanding LGBTQ+ Executives internationally. He was listed in Crain’s Detroit “Notable LGBTQ in Business” in 2021 and “Notable Leaders in Marketing” in 2023, and he was a Michigan Lawyers Weekly “Unsung Legal Hero” (2018).

In 2022, Clark Hill’s marketing campaign, which Sexton played a key role in developing, received the Best Marketing Campaign award from the Managing Partners’ Forum in London, celebrating professional services organizations. The campaign was noted for its focus on values, diversity and inclusion. The Clark Hill marketing and business development team was also awarded “Best Marketing Initiative” by Managing Partners’ Forum in 2020.

Roy is a published author of two books: Reel Roy Reviews, Volumes 1 and 2 and he was named “Best Actor in a Musical” by BroadwayWorld Detroit in 2017 for his performance as Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Ann Arbor Civic. Roy hosts the monthly Expert Webcast series All the World’s YOUR Stage: Authentic Culture Drives Authentic Growth.

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson 

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

If you love what you’re getting out of our show please subscribe, rate and review.

About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

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Regan and Dr. Fahimeh Sasan, Founding Physician and Chief Innovation Officer at Kindbody, discuss the importance of taking a proactive and preventative approach to your company’s future, highlighting the strategic advantage of cross-functional collaboration. They explore the importance of learning from innovative industries outside your own to enhance your company’s operations, and how staying true with a strong core mission and vision is an essential part of success. 

Key Takeaways

• How having an optimistic view during challenging times allows you to be forward-thinking.
• The operational challenges that come with rapid growth.
• Always ensuring your operations are fine tuned and never being afraid to reimagine it.
• Why it’s important to look outside your own industry for innovation inspiration.
• How thinking about the future is an essential part of a company’s success.

Resources

Connect with Dr. Fahimeh Sasan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-fahimeh-sasan-b18408169/

Learn about Dr. Fahimeh Sasan’s company, Kindbody: https://kindbody.com/ 

About Our Guest 

Dr. Sasan is a board certified and practicing Ob/Gyn who completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Sasan is also a member of the Business Group on Health’s Evidence Based Benefit Design Committee. As a practicing clinician for more than 17 years she is dedicated to helping employers deliver comprehensive care with a focus on risk reduction and providing an exceptional, personalized experience. Kindbody’s employer clients have direct access to Dr. Sasan from thought leadership and strategy to the smallest detail to ensure Kindbody exceeds their expectations.

Dr. Sasan and her team provide fertility services, gynecology, low-risk and high-risk prenatal care, and wellness support, offering patients a single door for all of their fertility healthcare needs. Dr. Sasan is a recognized and widely-quoted expert on fertility healthcare and education in the media including NBC News, CBS News, and TODAY.

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson 

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

If you love what you’re getting out of our show please subscribe, rate and review.

About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

Website: https://www.reganrobinson.com/

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Regan and Candice Cook Simmons, Chief Strategy Officer for Candarah Media, delve into the intricacies of cultural insights, data-informed decision-making and the necessity of embracing disruption for growth. They explore how intergenerational perspectives can shape trends, the importance of an expansive and abundant mindset, and the connection between authenticity and seizing future opportunities.

Key Takeaways

• The importance of getting outside your echo chamber and seeking multi-generational perspectives when preparing for the future.
• Why being data-informed is different (and better) than being data-driven. 
• The transformative power of reining in your ego and looking to nature to stay grounded.
• Why disruption is challenging the status quo with speed and doing it with impact. 
• Building a culture that values abundance, and the struggles companies face when identifying what’s authentic for them.

Resources

Connect with Candice Cook Simmons on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/candice-s-cook-7454177/

Learn about Candice’s company: https://www.candicecook.com/ 

About Our Guest 

Candice Cook Simmons, Esq. is a C-Suite entertainment executive, business strategist, and attorney. She is the lawyer and strategist responsible for the trademark and scaling of the Cronut pastry for Dominique Ansel which went on to change the way the legal and business community thought of the power of small businesses and IP. She went on with the team to scale the IP to an international business of media, locations, books, fashion/accessories, and a state of the art venue at Caesars in Vegas. With a professional background that includes entertainment, global market verticals ranging from consumer packaged goods, technology, and fintech industries, Candice has solidified her well-rounded reputation as a top leader at the intersection of content creation and entertainment, business, legal, and strategy.

Candice has been featured in numerous publications and “Best of” lists by media outlets – including the New York Times – in recognition of her significant contributions to legal strategy and global business expansion and was most recently selected to the 2023 Top 50 Lawyers in America list as well as the National Black Lawyer Top 100—New York list. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Greyston Bakery and TheHistoryMakers in Chicago and on the Board of Trustees for Playwrights Horizon (the theater behind Broadway sensation, Strange Loop).

About Future Fit™ with Regan Robinson 

Future Fit™ unravels the secrets of how the world’s most innovative leaders stay future-ready in a fast-paced world. Hosted by futurist and strategist Regan Robinson, each episode explores how trailblazing executives turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage. Gain powerful insights and practical approaches as these visionary minds share the unconventional and imaginative ways they thrive today while leading their teams into tomorrow.

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About Regan Robinson

Regan Robinson is a holistic futurist and business strategist that empowers visionary companies to turn uncertainty into advantage and effortlessly innovate and strategize for their future. Over the course of 20+ years, she has helped some of the world’s most influential brands and companies strategize and grow. Regan has spearheaded revenue increases of 300%+, led as an executive at 3 start-ups and established business models, new capabilities, infrastructure and roadmaps for companies like VICE Media and Edelman Digital.

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