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Sarah Holbrook

Sarah claims to be a Brooklyn native because she’s lived there for most of her life whereas actually, she spent her adolescence and teens in Denver Colorado learning to lean-into-the-skid, and other important driving skills.

Leaning into the skid is not only critical for driving on ice, it is a strategic reflex that anticipates disruption. This skill has influenced Sarah’s outlook on life which naturally colors her writing for The Robin Report where she specializes in anticipating change and its plausible impacts on retail. Additionally, she is working to shape the next generation of retail leaders as an adjunct professor in the Global Fashion Management program in the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).

Sarah is a freelance futures and foresight consultant who regularly contributes to Compass, the quarterly journal of the Association of Professional Futurists.

Sarah has earned more than a few degrees.

  • Master of Science in Foresight, University of Houston, Graduate School of Technology
  • Master of Professional Studies, Global Fashion Management, Fashion Institute of Technology, School of Graduate Studies
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

The Retail Outlook? Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Stanford professor and author of the bestseller Mindset, Carol Dweck describes grading students as a young teacher. If a student was not progressing toward the ...
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Fashion Moves Out of This World

The pandemic continues to unravel both our social lives and social fabric, but changes are not limited to the corporeal; our social media lives are ...
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The Indefatigable Walmart Gets a Piece of TikTok

In the game of musical chairs that has been the TikTok acquisition, Walmart and Oracle are still seated as the music stops although they may ...
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The Quarantine Data Dearth

My shopping patterns have changed, have yours? Nozzle, a British consultancy that specializes in Amazon sales optimization released a report on recent Amazon search trend ...
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\”Wanna Chat…With A Brand?

Let’s shift our gaze from the current moment where an undercurrent of uncertainty colors everything. It is easy to feel like we are treading water ...
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Facebook Shops - Sarah Holbrook - The Robin Report

Facebook Shops Is a Winner – but for Whom?

In a recent Facebook live stream, Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s latest foray into e-commerce retail. Zuckerberg described Shops as, “The biggest step we have taken ...
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Great reopening - Sarah Holbrook - The Robin Report

The Great Reopening?

The great American closing was straightforward. Stores, restaurants, and the bulk of the economy switched to sleep mode; waking up will be a different matter. ...
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We Like Big Tech Again

We are all living in a time warp as our collective confinement continues, but let’s reminisce back to Q1 2020.  In January, California residents gained ...
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