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Kate Hardcastle MBE is the global consumer expert trusted by boardrooms, broadcasters and world-leading organisations. She is an internationally respected business advisor, media broadcaster, author and global keynote speaker.
Simply put, Kate Hardcastle MBE is the authority that companies turn to when they need to understand consumers, transform strategy and convert insight into sustained profit, customer retention and brand love.
Kate Hardcastle MBE has worked in more than thirty countries and across sectors including retail, agriculture, property, travel, technology, finance, beauty and pharmaceuticals.
She has advised many of the worldтАЩs most influential brands, including Disney, Marks & Spencer, Klarna, Worldpay and EVRI, and has supported multimillion dollar deals, global expansion programmes and complex commercial transformations.
She serves as a Board Director at Future Stores and a Board Director at The Fragrance Foundation. Hardcastle is also a thought-leadership columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine and Forbes, where she provides trusted analysis on consumer behaviour, retail evolution and global marketplace shifts.
As a global speaker, Kate Hardcastle has delivered headline sessions at SXSW, Cannes Lions, the GREAT Campaign, Groceryshop, Seamless and major conferences across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States.
She has often been the first woman, and frequently the first international expert, to chair high-level conferences in markets where that representation had not previously existed.
As a broadcaster, she has created and appeared in documentaries and prime-time programming across international TV and radio, and is a regular contributor for the BBC, ITV, Sky and global news networks. She has also appeared in programmes for leading digital and streaming platforms.
Hardcastle is the founder of Buy Smarter, Buy Greener, an initiative promoting informed and sustainable consumer choices. Her best-selling book, The Science of Shopping, distils nearly three decades of global commercial and behavioural insight.
Awarded an MBE by Her Majesty The Queen for services to business and entrepreneurship, Kate Hardcastle MBE is recognised worldwide as one of the most trusted and influential voices in consumer strategy and retail evolution.
