The Garage Group

🎉 Happy Holidays from The Garage Group! 🎉 As we wrap up another fantastic year, we want to say “thank you!” to our incredible community of friends, partners, and clients. We are grateful for your continual trust in our TGG team to tackle your brand’s most nebulous innovation and growth challenges. This holiday season, we wish you intentional time to reset, reflect, and re-energize. We have lots of important work ahead! Happy Holidays! See you in 2025!✨ Our TGG Team Interested in partnering? Learn more: https://hubs.li/Q030b9v20

As we wrap up 2024, we are choosing to celebrate it as a year of resilience – 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 📲 Check out TGG’s most impactful takeaways from 2024: https://hubs.li/Q03027h60 1️⃣ Another Year of Powerful “Courageous Minds Only” Conversations 2️⃣ Packaging Our Team’s Experience, Curiosity & Paying It Forward 3️⃣ Curated Highlights from 2024 Innovation Conferences 4️⃣ Our TGG Team’s Commitment to Living Out Our Values ------- #insights #leadership #innovation #conferences

The Market Research Event: TMRE 2024 🔍 TMRE 2024 was all about sparks. Sparking connections. Sparking ideas. Sparking relationships. Sparking the future of insights in a rapidly evolving world. As you may expect, AI was a big theme. Yet, there was much more to be seen, and to learn. Our highlights are inspired by leaders from companies like The Coca-Cola Company, The Hershey company, The Clorox Company, Cargill, and The New York Times who each sparked new ideas with ah-ha moments. The Garage Group, much like leaders at other organizations, attends these conferences to stay relevant and ensure we are on the pulse of what’s next. We embrace cutting edge research tools and techniques in our daily work, and we’re excited to put our learnings into practice! Check out our team’s 5️⃣ themes from TMRE 2024: https://hubs.li/Q02_BGxF0 --------------- #TMRE #TMRE2024 #marketresearch #insights

TGG is at TMRE 2024! 🔍   We are looking forward to 3️⃣ days of uncovering new research methods, showcasing ways to effectively leverage AI for consumer insights, discovering how to keep humanity at the core of market research and so much more.   Stay tuned for our recap! 👀

What if curiosity were the key to unlocking endless possibilities and breakthrough innovation? 💡 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, helping us evolve and adapt in this ever-changing world. Whether it’s expressed in daily interactions, trendsetting, or globetrotting, curiosity is in our DNA. 📲 Check out our first TGG team member Op-Ed in our new “Staying Curious” blog series: https://hubs.ly/Q02-8c2G0 --------- #innovation #biomimicry #productdevelopment #product

At The Garage Group, our team is all in. We “squeeze the juice” out of every day, showing up with a strong sense of purpose, insatiable curiosity, and an unrelenting drive to deliver meaningful results. Delivering work at this pace can be a grind. And, taking time and space to recharge is hard. 🔋 As a company, we are committed to leading by example and showing that taking care of our people is the smartest business decision we can make. It's about fostering a culture where our team feels valued and empowered to bring their best selves to work. And, it’s a tangible act of gratitude to our team’s commitment to our work. This year, we are taking the week of Thanksgiving off as a team – to rest, recharge, and enable each of us to fill our cups back up, in whatever ways are most true to each individual team member. 🍁 📲Learn more about how TGG is leading with intentional, “people-first” commitment: https://hubs.li/Q02Zb5kl0 #peoplefirst #culture #companyculture

🚀 We're Hiring! 🚀   Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and consumer insights? Do you thrive on unlocking empathy and driving business impact?    Join our Lean Research Team at The Garage Group!   We're looking for emerging leaders ready to roll up their sleeves and work to push our client engagements forward. As a Lean Researcher, you'll: 👉 Architect research plans to inform strategy and innovation decisions. 👉 Conduct and synthesize research with excellence. 👉 Gain exposure to the day-to-day challenges of business strategy and consumer behavior. Be part of a team that makes an impact on some of the best Fortune 1000 brands and products!   📲 Apply now on our website and take the next step in your career journey with us: https://lnkd.in/grBb5SzB #F1000 #research #leanresearch #insights #hiring

Staying curious about the potential of AI can open up a world of possibilities. AI is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of what we thought possible. As the full implications of it is still unknown, the market remains in “search mode” with AI. Leaders should adopt a curious mindset to stay ahead of the curve and experiment with what AI has to offer. 📲 See what Greg Hocking (VP Global R&D New Innovation Territories, Mars) shared about navigating AI at our last Courageous Minds Only Event: https://hubs.li/Q02X5n0M0 #leadership #AI #curiosity #innovation #corporateinnovation

3️⃣ KEY THEMES FROM GROCERYSHOP 2024 YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS 🛍️   At The Garage Group, we are continually posing the question, “what needs to be true for brands to stay relevant?” 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 service of staying curious, we kept a pulse on the Groceryshop 2024 event held in Las Vegas earlier last month.   Which theme stand out for you? Let us know!   📲Learn more about our TGG Team’s 3 Key Themes: https://lnkd.in/gAGRVT7J   #groceryshop2024 #innovation #insights #consumerinsights #retail #technology

Developing the muscle to do courageous things often starts with embracing micro-moments of courage. These small, everyday acts of bravery can build up your confidence and resilience over time. Micro moments of courage can be amazing for your career and life. ⚡ 📲Check out what Travis Colvin (General Manager, Grocery and Retail Advertising, Uber) shared about significant dividends of micro-moments of courage at our last Courageous Minds Only Event: https://hubs.li/Q02WY-q00 #innovation #courage #leadership #resilience