Career
Following a twenty-year career in retail, including the leadership of New York City’s iconic Janovic store chain, Stephens founded, a consultancy specializing in the forecasting and articulation of future trends in retailing and consumer behavior. The book presents the case that the unique social and economic conditions leading to unimaginable growth in the retail and consumer goods sectors through the latter part of the twentieth century are giving way to radically altered demographic, economic and technological realities, yielding a new, more demanding yet vastly more positive and sustainable retail landscape. Stephens is a regular contributor on the CTV tech television series App Central television, co-hosted by Amber Mac and a business contributor for Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio.
He has written feature articles for Advertising Age and been quoted in Forbes, Profit Magazine, Canadian Business, The Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and a variety other United States. and Canadian media He speaks internationally to both private and public sector organizations, and is represented as a speaker by The Lavin Agency.
