The Boldest Voices in Retail Return | Season 2 Trailer

Season 2 of Retail Transformers is here, and this year, we’re going deeper into the ideas, innovations, and leadership philosophies redefining the retail industry. Hosted by Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden, this season brings you candid conversations with the executives, innovators, and bold thinkers transforming commerce from the inside out.

In this trailer, Ricardo and Casey reflect on the powerful insights from Season 1. From April Sabral’s purpose-driven leadership mindset to Dave Finnegan’s exploration of AI, identity, and trust. You’ll hear how leaders like Vicki Cantrell, Matt Marcotte, Anna Farberov, and Bobby Johnson shaped the conversation around culture, community, innovation, and people-first transformation.

Season 2 builds on that momentum with even more groundbreaking voices. We’re diving into AI-driven retail strategies, next-gen customer experiences, loyalty reinvention, cultural transformation, and the bold moves that will define the next decade of retail.

If you’re a retail leader, innovator, founder, or someone passionate about the future of commerce, this season is built for you.

What You’ll Learn This Season

How AI is reshaping retail leadership and customer experience
Why culture is still the strongest competitive advantage
How to build resilient, people-first retail teams
The real playbooks behind scaling innovation
How leaders are navigating trust in an AI-driven world
The bold strategies shaping the future of retail

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Chapters:

(00:00) Cold Open

(00:28) Intro & Hosts

(01:20) Callbacks to Season 1

(02:33) Season 2 - What's New

(03:15) Why You Should Listen

(03:38) Our Purpose

(03:58) Close & Subscribe!

Meet your hosts, helping you stay sharp, be bold, and transform retail:

Ricardo Belmar is an NRF Top Retail Voice for 2025 and a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2021 – 2026. Thinkers 360 has named him a Top 10 Thought Leader in Retail, a Top 25 Thought Leader in AGI and Careers, a Top 50 Thought Leader in Agentic AIand Management, and a Top 100 Thought Leader in Digital Transformation and Transformation. Thinkers 360 also named him a Top Digital Voice for 2024 and 2025. He is an advisory council member at George Mason University’s Center for Retail Transformationand the Retail Cloud Alliance. He was most recently the partner marketing leader 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 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!

Includes music provided by imunobeats.com, featuring Tropikool, from the album Future Beats 2, written by Heston Mimms, published by Imuno.