Taking Stock with Shelley Bransten, spotlights the life stories and journeys of leaders, influencers, and disruptors at the intersection of brands, retail, and technology.
Join Shelley as she talks with President and CEO of the National Retail Federation (NRF), Matt Shay. Listen in as Matt charts his journey from early career to joining the NRF in 2010 which he has since helped transform into Washington’s most powerful voice supporting the retail industry. Matt also shares his thoughts on the big challenges and opportunities facing the retail industry at large as well as leadership principles and lessons learned over the years. Learn More: https://msft.it/6057spRkJ
3 Sept 2025
Leading the Shift: AI, Strategy & Leadership
Join Shelley as she talks with PwC Partner Ian Kahn about his role at the company partnering with senior business leaders. Listen in as Ian talks about what’s top of mind for those leaders right now, some of the work he is doing to help their business transform, and the role of AI in that transformation. What’s more, his take on the biggest impact AI use cases today and tomorrow. Learn More: https://msft.it/6055sVUcz
14 Nov 2024
Transforming the Energy Sector
Join Shelley as she talks with Darryl Willis, Corporate Vice President, Energy & Resources Industry at Microsoft. A geologist and geophysicist by profession, listen in as Darryl talks about his journey from leadership roles in the energy sector at bp to the technology sector at Microsoft. Learn about some of the lessons learned along the way and his unwavering support for the energy transition and the drive toward more secure, equitable and sustainable energy for all.
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11 Jun 2024
The Candiani Code—Leadership with Vision and Purpose
Join Shelley as she talks with Silvia Candiani, Global Vice President, Telco & Media Industries at Microsoft. Listen in as Silvia talks about her journey from Vodafone to Microsoft Italia and the lessons learned along the way. As well as the importance of vision and purpose in leadership and how she’s bringing to life her mission to utilize technology as a means of delivering positive impact for a better world.
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20 Jul 2023
The data analytics and AI innovator
Join Shelley as she talks with Deepak Jose, Global Director of Demand Analytics at Mars. Deepak talks about the role of data and analytics in purpose-led consumer goods like Mars, business planning for generations not quarters and how the Japanese concept of “Ikigai” has influenced his life and career.
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Deepak Jose| LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepakjose/) (guest)
"Mars and Microsoft work together to accelerate Mars’ digital transformation and reimagine business operations, Associate experience and consumer engagement"
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20 Jun 2023
Leadership lessons from an executive coach
Join Shelley for this extended episode as she talks with Eva Archer-Smith about her career as an executive coach. Eva goes all the way back to her very first job and how experience as an executive in both the oil and airline industries led her to become an executive coach. Learn about her lessons learned along the way, why she believes everybody should walk through life open-minded and open-armed and her purpose to help people rediscover the joy and courage in their work.
Episode Chapters:
02:45 – My first job
08:50 – Lessons learned
11:22 – 2 things I’m noticing
12:38 – Experience is a good teacher
16:00 – The skill of asking
20:50 – School thinking
21:36 – A Farmer’s Story
25:46 – The transition to coaching
31:40 – Coming to terms with reality
32:50 – Neuroscience findings
37:51 – Fun Five
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Eva Archer-Smith| LinkedIn (guest)
Microsoft Cloud for Retail
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2 May 2023
The journey of a serial entrepreneur
Join Shelley as she talks with Lily Kanter about her life as a serial entrepreneur. Lily charts her early days at Microsoft to becoming an entrepreneur starting Serena & Lily, Boon Supply and Averylily. Learn about the big lessons learned along the way, advice to other budding entrepreneurs and how companies can think about profit and philanthropy in the same breath.
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Lily Kanter| LinkedIn (guest)
Microsoft Cloud for Retail
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3 Apr 2023
Resilient Retail
Join Shelley as she talks with Daniel Newman, CEO, The Futurum Group. Daniel talks about the findings of their latest research on ‘Resilient Retail.’ Learn about the 3A’s of resilient retail (Adapt, Anticipate and Absorb), and the major traits of the ‘most resilient’ retailers on the planet.
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Daniel Newman | LinkedIn (guest)
Microsoft Cloud for Retail
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15 Feb 2023
Autonomous Stores: The Future of Retail
Join Shelley as she talks with Tomasz Blicharksi. EVP of the Management Board, Żabka Group, Managing Director of Żabka Future about the future of retail. Tomasz talks about how Zabka is bringing their vision of “making lives easier” to life and why visiting a store in the future should be like opening the door to your fridge. Also learn about his 3 big bets for future retail success.
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Tomasz Blicharski| LinkedIn (guest)
Microsoft Cloud for Retail
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1 Feb 2023
What we're seeing
Join Shelley as she talks with John Dick, Founder & CEO, at Civic Science, a real-time market intelligence company. Recorded prior to the 2022 holiday season, John gives us his predictions for the future of the retail industry. Specifically, the changing customer context, trends he expects to stick, and potential winners & losers for 2023. Listen in to find out how many of his predictions have already come true.
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John Dick| LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndick/) (guest)
Microsoft Cloud for Retail
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20 Dec 2022
Leadership Lessons with Mom.B.A
Join Shelley as she talks with Karyn Schoenbart, Former CEO, NPD Group, about her journey from college graduate to high-performing CEO. Karyn shares her lessons learned along the way, how she overcame imposter syndrome and what lied behind her decision to write the bestselling book “Mom.B.A.”
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Karyn Schoenbart | Site (https://karynschoenbart.com/) | LinkedIn (guest)
Microsoft Cloud for Retail
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6 Dec 2022
The rise of recommerce
Join Shelley as she talks with Andy Ruben, CEO & Founder, Trove, about his journey from being Walmart’s first Chief Sustainability Officer to founding Trove. Listen in as he talks about why the future of retail will be just as much about having customers bring things back to stores for resale as it will be to buy new things. Welcome to the word of recommerce.
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Andy Ruben | Trove (https://trove.com/) | LinkedIn (guest)
Microsoft Cloud for Retail
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22 Nov 2022
The sustainability imperative
Join Shelley as she talks with Elisabeth Brinton, Corporate Vice President, Sustainability at Microsoft about her life’s work: sustainability. Elisabeth talks about why and how organizations of all types, sizes, and sectors will need to fundamentally transform common practices to meet the new sustainability imperative. And how, in fact, sustainability can be a force for multi-bottom line growth and profitability.
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Elisabeth Brinton | LinkedIn (guest)
Microsoft Cloud for Retail
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22 Sept 2022
Accenture Song’s Nina Holdaway
Shelley Bransten welcomes Accenture Song’s Nina Holdaway. This is part 2 of their conversation, where Nina talks about why CMOs are increasingly ‘decluttering’, the survivor, strive, and thriver framework, what sets ‘thrive’ CMOs apart from the rest, and the top 3 pieces of advice for 2022.
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