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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.

Preparing for Recovery

As the clouds of COVID-19 darken, they are eclipsing our ability to see a clear future. The initial shock of the economic, employment and retail ...
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Sarah Holbrook - Eco Policy Gets Mainstreamed - The Robin Report

Eco Policy Gets Mainstreamed

We like our decade benchmarks. In 1961, JFK had his end-of-the-decade moonshot. Now after a stretch of corporate shoulder shrugging and lip service, CEO after ...
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Sarah Holdbrook - NRF 2020: It’s a New Decade and We’ve Finally Put the Retail Apocalypse to Bed - The Robin Report

NRF 2020: It’s a New Decade and We’ve Finally Put the Retail Apocalypse to Bed

In early January, the global retail tribe marched past the Hudson Yards\’ towers, the Vessel, The Shed and construction cranes to cloister themselves in the ...
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Reflections of a Trade War Correspondent

In the words of New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman, \”At this point I\’ve lost count of how many times markets have rallied in the ...
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Stop Planning for Gen Z: They Have Arrived and This Is Where to Find Them

It begins now. The elders of the generation labeled \”Z\” will enter the active consumer class in 2020. This generation, born between 1996 and 2010 ...
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Next up for Amazon…Fashion

On a busy Saturday, the radio was tuned to a cultural trivia game show called Ask Me Another. The segment I heard was called \”Closing ...
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Is Plus Size Fashion Dead?

Alexandra Waldman, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Universal Standard wasted no time in defending \”Plus Size Fashion Has No Future,\” the title of her SXSW ...
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Retail, Culture, and Everything

Shoptalk and South by Southwest ran consecutively this year. In spending time at both, certain correlations stood out. The implementation of artificial intelligence in retail ...
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