It’s only been two weeks since our incredible 2026 Women in Retail Leadership Summit, but we’re already looking ahead to next year! The Women in Retail Leadership Circle team is excited to announce that planning is already underway for the 2027 Women in Retail Leadership Summit — and we can’t wait to bring our incredible...
“Retail is on the cusp of the most profound shift we’ve seen since the rise of e-commerce,” my colleague Rachel Moore, who leads our Incubation and AI teams, declared in a Women in Retail Leadership Circle opinion piece earlier this year. It’s only been four months, but that shift to agentic commerce is accelerating. My...
Memorial Day has long served as one of retail’s most reliable revenue weekends, a moment when showrooms fill up, floor traffic spikes, and big-ticket purchases finally get made. This year, however, the familiar playbook faces some unfamiliar pressure. The conflict in the Middle East has raised the cost of energy and has people concerned about...
Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) recently released its 16th annual Top Women in Retail report. The valuable resource highlights female executives who impressed our Editorial team as well as colleagues from across the industry. One such woman was Tchernavia Rocker, chief people officer, Revlon. Here’s a sampling of Tchernavia’s interview featured in the report. Women...
Retailers are facing a watershed moment in artificial intelligence development. Just as direct-to-consumer brands have begun to draft and implement solid policies, governance systems and approval thresholds for generative AI use cases, agentic AI systems are already out of the barn. Predictive, knowledge-based LLM systems have paved the way for systems that don’t just talk,...
As artificial intelligence continues to disrupt and innovate retail, the real question facing leaders today isn’t if AI will transform the industry, but rather how to lead through it. That’s exactly the conversation Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) will be having at the 2026 CommerceNext Growth Show, taking place June 23-24 in New York...
Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) recently released its 16th annual Top Women in Retail report. The valuable resource highlights female executives who impressed our Editorial team as well as colleagues from across the industry. One such woman was Kate Ridley, chief brand officer of Stanley 1913. Here’s a sampling of Kate’s interview featured in the...
The 2026 Women in Retail Leadership Summit was an inspirational and uplifting three days of engaging content, valuable networking, fun activations, free swag, and more! This was our largest Summit to date — more than 700 leading retail executives joined us in Miami from April 27-29 for our 12th annual Summit. There were so many...
The retail industry has entered a new era, one in which fragmented omnichannel strategies are no longer enough to meet rising consumer expectations and mounting operational pressures. According to Manhattan Associates’ latest report, Unified Commerce Powers Future Retail Success, the retailers pulling ahead are those that have moved beyond omnichannel and embraced unified commerce: a...
The 2026 Women in Retail Leadership Summit was an inspirational and uplifting three days of engaging content, valuable networking, fun activations, free swag, and more! This was our largest Summit to date — more than 700 leading retail executives joined us at the JW Marriott Turnberry in Miami for our 12th year. There were so...
