WholeFood's CEO Discusses Leadership and Insights at TMRE: The Market Research Event

John
Mackey, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market, Best-Selling Author,
Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
key takeaway: Grow and evolve your leadership skills with help from John
Mackey, to push employee growth and engagement, ultimately leading to growth of
the company itself.

Alec
Ross, NYT Best-Selling Author, The Industries of the Future, Former Senior
Advisor for Technology & Innovation at the State Department
key takeaway: Gain a better understanding of the next wave of innovations
that are going to disrupt markets and workplaces around the world, for better
and for worse.

David S.
Duncan, Co-Author, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer
Choice
key takeaway: Hear how the 'theory of jobs to be done' can be used to shape
innovations that have a greater chance of success and how the approach can be
institutionalized in your organization to create enduring competitive
advantage.

Zain Raj,
President & CEO, Shapiro+Raj, Amazon Best-Selling Author, Marketing for
Tomorrow, Not Yesterday and BrandRituals: How Successful Brands Bond with
Customers for Life
key takeaway: View the future of market research and see how next
generation methodologies are crafting tomorrow's marketers and meeting the
demands of today's consumer trust, respect and loyalty requirements.

Francis
Glebas, Author, The Animators Eye and Directing the Story, Director, Storyboard
and Visual Development Artist, Disney, Dreamworks Animation
key takeaway: Explore storytelling and visual presentation techniques from
the storyboard artist for Fantasia and Pocahontas to help insights executives
better sell our research into the organization

David
Eagleman, Neuroscientist, NYT Best-Selling Author, Incognito: The Secret Lives
of the Brain, Host of PBS' The Brain with David Eagleman
key takeaway: Hear new data to show how people use the same brain circuitry to
relate to brands as they do to one another, suggesting strong motivation for
companies to work on reputation, loyalty and trust ' subconscious issues which
powerfully navigate customer decisions, but are missed by traditional methods
of market research.

Thalma
Lobel, Author, Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence,
Internationally Recognized Psychologist, Professor at the School of
Psychological Science, Tel Aviv University, Visiting Professor, Harvard
key takeaway: Gain insights on how the strong influence of the physical
sensations have direct implications to products and package design, to user
interface as well as to business and personal interactions with family and
friends.

Soon Yu,
Global Vice President of Innovation, VF Corporation
key takeaway: Uncover the 'T shaped' leadership model that goes beyond just
developing inspired ideas to the organizational influencing skills required to
execute them.