STIMULATE Announces August Retail Workshop in Nashville

April 29, 2025 (Denver, CO) –  STIMULATE, a B2B sexual wellness trade show, conference and community, will debut a workshop experience one day prior to show opening of their annual trade show and conference, STIMULATE, in Nashville, TN, this August 3, 2025. Sponsoring this workshop is Nu Sensuelle, an an award-winning pleasure products brand that empowers the sensually curious to experience elevated levels of connection, intensity, and growth through innovation, education, and inclusion. Attendees of STIMULATE+Workshop can also look forward to a $200 value of wholesale purchased inventory made during the STIMULATE show on August 4+5, 2025. Additional sponsors of the workshop include All Point Retail and Sportsheets.

Education has always been a foundational root of STIMULATE, and we are thrilled to expand our educational support to attendees through this immersive, expert-led workshop experience. Over the course of four hours, attendees can truly take a deep dive into industry learnings alongside professional peers with true experts at hand to help them during this time,” shares Nicole Hoffman, Founder of STIMULATE. 

The workshop experience will be open to retailers looking to strengthen their business operations, with a core emphasis on increasing store productivity, enhancing visual and merchandising display efforts, supporting customers through stronger industry understanding and of course, helping attendees strengthen in-store sales. Registration to the workshop is separate from STIMULATE’s annual trade show and conference, and is $95 for this 4 hour experience through July 1, 2025. At this time, early bird pricing will expire and the rate to attend is $145. More details of the workshop, including registration links, can be found here.

Sessions to be included in the workshop presented by Nu Sensuelle include:

Generational Snapshot: You Can’t Connect with Customers If You Don’t Know Who They Are presented by Georganne Bender, Consumer Anthropologist + Principal of KIZER + BENDER

Sexual Self-Esteem & the Retail Experience (Without Playing Therapist) presented by Valerie Martin, LCSW, RYT,  Founder + Clinical Director of The Gaia Center for Embodied Healing

Increasing The Average Unit Per Transaction: 5 Tips to Know presented by Retail 101 Author, Retail Marketing Professor + STIMULATE Founder, Nicole Leinbach Hoffman

The Merchandising Challenge: An Immersive Display + Merchandising Experience presented by Georganne Bender, Consumer Anthropologist + Principal of KIZER + BENDER with a surprise merchandising expert guest

Attendees can also look forward to takeaway worksheets, interactive experiences, surprise business incentives and more. To explore more about the STIMULATE+Workshop presented by Nu Sensuelle sessions, click here.

To secure your spot, click here. Additional inquires can be directed to stimulate@retailminded.com.

About STIMULATE 

STIMULATE was founded in 2023 and will host it’s third annual trade show + conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 4+5. Founded in an effort to bring connectivity of products to retailers, medical leaders and more together in combination with education supporting these same professionals, STIMULATE has been recognized by Trade Show Network News as one of the best community focused trade shows (2023) and continues to gain further reach of medical leaders, brands and retailers alike as each year passes. Hoffman, founder of STIMULATE, is also a longtime retail professional who also the Founder of Retail Minded, an adjunct professor of Retail Marketing and frequent contributor and speaker to a variety of publications and events. STIMULATE also holds various events throughout the year separate from it’s flagship experience. Explore more at StimulateTheShow.com.

About Nu Sensuelle

Nu Sensuelle is an award-winning pleasure products brand that empowers the sensually curious to experience elevated levels of connection, intensity, and growth through innovation, education, and inclusion. As an industry leader, we are committed to pleasing the full body and spirit—helping users of all body types, relationships, genders and sexualities elevate their vibe. Nu Sensuelle’s stylishly packaged, innovative toys are backed with the stability of engineering and the guarantee of impeccable customer service.  Explore more about Nu Sensuelle here.

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