Recorded at the Toronto Real Estate Forum, we’re welcoming Jan Kestle. She is the President of Environics Analytics, which provides various industries with analytic data and allows them to understand how different demographic factors influence decisions.
Jan tells us all about the kinds of data collected at Environics, and then talks about the types that real estate companies are interested in lately. She also speaks to what she is seeing in data from the retail and office sectors.
Topics covered include:
- Data supporting revitalization is happening at retail stores.
- Trends from the pandemic, with arguments for and against them being permanent.
- Differences between data sharing tendencies in Canada versus the US.
- The conscientiousness that Jan sees from Canadian companies in using ethical data.
- Data that Environics can provides about Canada’s immigration numbers.
- What Jan is seeing regarding attitudes towards returning to work.
- Jan’s history of working closely with the provincial and federal governments.
- One of the most interesting pieces of data over the past few years.
- The shift towards using data from online sources instead of older types.
- Using data that is anonymous yet high quality.
- The investment that Bell has made in Environics and what it has allowed for.
More about our guest…
Jan Kestle is President & Founder of Environics Analytics and has been a leader in data and analytics for decades. An expert in using statistics and mathematics to solve social and business challenges, she has worked with hundreds of organizations in all sectors to support their data-driven decision-making. She is a member of the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council, Ted Rogers School of Management’s Dean’s Advisory Council and Western University’s Morrissette School of Entrepreneurship.
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