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Stephanie Retblatt

Chief Brainiac

  • Director of Smarty Pants’ qualitative research practice
  • Works closely with Smarty Pants’ key food, apparel and CPG clients - including Topps, Cadbury Adams, Wrigley, American Eagle and Dr Pepper Snapple Group; Entertainment clients - including including Hasbro, Electronic Arts, Hallmark, Activision, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon; Nonprofit clients - including GSUSA, Sesame Workshop and PBS KIDS
  • A phenomenal ethnographer, focus group moderator and client-consumer liaison
  • Has been featured on CNN and served as an AAF advertising judge
  • Has personally conducted research on four different continents in over a dozen countries
  • Before joining Smarty Pants in 2005, served as one of 28 Managing Partners at Grey Advertising where she mastered the art of conducting qualitative research to generate strategic insights that lead to more effective communications
  • Holds a bachelors degree in Psychology from Lehigh University and a masters in Consumer Behavior from New York University
Fun Facts about Stephanie
  • Lives in NYC with her husband, two children (ages 6 and 2) and the fattest dog in the world, Henry
  • Knows more about Transformers than any grown woman should
  • Wishes she were Miranda Cosgrove
  • Loves Phineas and Ferb and may very well have seen every episode ever created
  • Has a knack for movie trivia
  • Aretha Franklin’s "Baby, I Love You" is her karaoke song of choice (when forced to sing karaoke, that is)
  • Hates pesto with a passion
  • Believes she can eat her weight in Rice Krispie Treats
  • Played “Stegosaurus #1” in her 2nd grade dinosaur play
  • Was editor in chief of her high school’s yearbook

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