As we wrap up 2024, we are choosing to celebrate it as a year of resilience – filled with personal and professional growth, incredible empathy, and continuous learning. Despite market, social, and political turbulence, we are grateful for our community of change-makers who embraced the headwinds and kept moving forward.
Turning the page to 2025, our team at The Garage Group commits to leading with even more conviction for our purpose – unlocking courage required to navigate uncertainty, building more resilient leaders, brands, and businesses.
Here’s to doubling down on courage to drive change in 2025!
Erin Faulk, President
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Check out TGG’s most impactful takeaways from 2024…
1. Another Year of Powerful “Courageous Minds Only” Conversations
2. Packaging Our Team’s Experience, Curiosity & Paying It Forward
3. Curated Highlights from 2024 Innovation Conferences
4. Our TGG Team’s Commitment to Living Out Our Values
1. Another Year of Powerful “Courageous Minds Only” Conversations
In 2024, we leaned into learning from 10 leaders from a variety of companies who were responsible for spearheading change within their respective organizations. We walked away with tangible tips for our community who is operating in the trenches, every day.
About our Courageous Minds Only community: Courageous Minds Only is a global community with a mission of giving corporate leaders courage, connections, and inspiration for building the future in an uncertain world. We’re passionate about sparking conversations among these leaders so they can learn from and support each other as they’re transforming their organizations.
Insights from Inside the Arena: Learning from Leaders about Leadership
- Jamie Rotnicki (Vice President, Innovation at Molson Coors)
- Dujon Smith (Founder & CEO at My Block Skin & Co-Lead Black Founders at Accenture)
- Rissa Reddan (CMO, West Monroe)
Staying On The Cutting Edge: How Leaders Innovate Despite Headwinds
- Krystal Dawson (Vice President, Nielsen IQ)
- Raul Ruiz (SVP Brand Marketing, Instant Brands)
- Adam Wisniewski (CEO, EX3 Labs)
Leadership Unplugged: Real-World Lessons from Industry Pioneers
- Travis Colvin (General Manager, Grocery and Retail Advertising, Uber)
- Shayna Atkins, SPC (Founder and Product Management Leader, AtkCo)
- Greg Hocking (VP Global R&D New Innovation Territories, Mars)
2. Packaging Our Team’s Experience, Curiosity & Paying It Forward
For the past 10+ years, TGG has partnered with 350+ F1000 brands to rebuild brand architectures, reset brand strategies, or build consumer-first innovation pipelines to unlock incremental growth. In 2024, we made a commitment to “package” our learnings in service of giving back to our community. Here are a few examples!
- TGG X Fashion Institute of Technology – Building the Capability of Customer-first Innovation
- The Power of Job-based Journey Mapping
- Starting with a Product Instead of a Problem?
- Irresistible Food & Beverage Trends
- Biomimicry as Inspiration to Fuel New Product Development
3. Curated Highlights from 2024 Innovation Conferences
At TGG, we live by our core value of Insatiable Curiosity. It drives us to explore the unknown and push the boundaries of what’s possible. It’s the spark that ignites our creativity and propels us forward. This means we are in perpetual pursuit of understanding what’s going on in the market and how consumer needs are being met in new and different ways. In 2024, we kept a pulse on these conferences…
TGG attended CES 2024, SXSW 2024, Insights Association 2024 Corporate Researchers Conference, Groceryshop 2024 and TMRE 2024.
CES 2024 Highlights & Insights
CES® is the most powerful tech event in the world — the proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators. CES showcases companies including manufacturers, developers and suppliers of consumer technology hardware, content, technology delivery systems and more.
Bold New Products at SXSW 2024
The SXSW Conference provides an opportunity for the global community of creatives to encounter cutting-edge ideas, discover new interests, and network with other professionals who share a similar appetite for forward-focused experiences.
AI + Staying Human: 5 Takeaways From Insights Association Corporate Researcher Conference 2024
The Insights Association 2024 Corporate Researchers Conference in NYC is a three-days action-packed event connecting Insights leaders from leading global companies to discuss the biggest challenges facing consumers today and tomorrow.
Keeping A Pulse on Key Themes From Groceryshop 2024
Groceryshop’s agenda provides the ultimate playbook for digital transformation and innovation. Learn from leaders across grocery and CPG who are embracing new digital capabilities, adopting new business models and successfully navigating tough industry challenges. Expect fresh and never-before-seen research, in-depth case studies that walk you step-by-step through successful initiatives, analyst presentations with smart frameworks for tackling major business problems, and global grocery and CPG perspectives from practitioners around the world.
The Market Research Event: TMRE 2024
TMRE 2024 gathers world-leading insights experts, forward-thinkers, and market disruptors as we uncover new research methods, showcase ways to effectively leverage AI for consumer insights, discover how to keep humanity at the core of market research and so much more.
4. Our TGG Team’s Commitment to Living Out Our Values
TGG is committed to running a ‘people-first’ company. Every day, we aspire to lead in-line with how we show up for our clients — all-in, customer-first, with a strong sense of purpose and a belief in progress over perfection. To deliver at pace, it requires intentional time and space to breathe, recharge, and reset.
