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Kevin Coupe has been a working writer all his professional life, and for the past two decades has been bringing to audiences all over the world a wealth of experience, provocative and contextual insights, unique worldview and serious levity about the world of business and consumers.

He is the co-author, with Michael Sansolo, of “THE BIG PICTURE: Essential Business Lessons From The Movies,” which uses movies ranging from “The Godfather” to “Young Frankenstein” to illustrate tenets of leadership, the importance of marketing and branding, and how to survive in the workplace.

For more than 12 years, he’s had his own website/blog – www.MorningNewsBeat.com – providing what he calls “business news in context, and analysis with attitude” to more than 28,000 subscribers all over the world. An independent survey recently ranked MNB as the “top industry news and information site.”

Kevin also is an adjunct faculty member of Portland State University’s Center for Retail Leadership in Oregon, and has been an occasional contributor to Forbes.com.

In addition to speaking at hundreds of conferences in the U.S. and abroad and reporting from 45 states and six continents, Kevin has worked as a daily newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, video producer, bodyguard, and clothing salesman. He has supervised a winery tasting room (happily), run two marathons (slowly), driven a race car (badly), taken boxing lessons (painfully) and acted in a major (but obscure) motion picture.

At present, Kevin is working on a sequel to “THE BIG PICTURE"; a new business book, tentatively titled "RETAIL RULES! 52 Lessons For Achieving Victory On Retail's Front Lines," scheduled to be published in time for the holidays; a novel;  and a screenplay (that he describes as being a “black comedy about forward buying, just-in-time deliveries and slotting allowances”).

He is married with three children, and lives in Connecticut.