Knox Oates Foresights
Knox Oates Foresights

Est. 2024 · Chicago

A consumer-insights advisory practice for retailers and consumer brands ready to grow beyond business as usual.


Knox Oates Foresights partners with insights leaders and executive teams to build Consumer Centricity Centers of Excellence — the kind that move companies from interesting findings to measurable, top-line impact.

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Elizabeth Knox Oates portrait
Managing Partner · Principal Consultant

Elizabeth Knox Oates


A 20-year insights veteran with proven experience building functions that drive business impact. Elizabeth has dramatically grown top-line revenue for multibillion-dollar retailers, driven innovation for products and experiences, and redefined the strategic role of consumer-based teams across the enterprise.

She brings that same approach to executives across retail and CPG through Knox Oates Foresights — advisory engagements, workshops, and keynote stages.

Insights leadership at

Molson Coors Ulta Beauty Kohl's General Mills American Family Insurance
Education & affiliations
  • MBA

    Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison

  • Guest lecturer

    A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Analytics & Insights

  • Author

    More Than Just Interesting, Paramount Market Publishing

Recognition & off the clock
  • Top 8 to Watch

    Wisconsin School of Business Update, 2021

  • Endurance runner

    Two-time Boston Marathon qualifier · Ultramarathoner

  • St. Jude Hero

    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

More Than Just Interesting book cover
From the founder · Available now

More Than Just Interesting

How to build an insights function for impact

A practical playbook drawn from twenty years inside multibillion-dollar retailers — Ulta Beauty, Kohl's, and General Mills. The book Elizabeth's keynotes are built around, and the foundation for every KOF engagement.

Recent stages

World Retail Congress TMRE The Quirk's Event Wisconsin Sch. of Business Marketing Leadership Inst.
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