In this issue of the Inner Circle, we debut the first of what will be a series of articles on proprietary salary data collected by our sister publication, Total Retail. The first annual Salary Benchmark Report features salary data from Total Retail’s audience of retail executives from retail organizations of all sizes and product verticals. The...
The gender wage gap is an issue that Women in Retail Leadership Circle has covered before — and the news hasn’t been all that great. Consider that in 2015, female full-time workers made only 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to a report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. We wanted to know...
Sit back. Close your eyes. Breathe in deeply. Now breathe out. Picture an ocean with gentle waves. Maybe a palm tree. Try to feel the sun on your skin. Now open your eyes. Have I lulled you into a daydream about being on a beautiful beach? Miami Beach, maybe? Well … that dream can be...
Are you “holidayed” out yet? I don’t know about you, but after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and all the rest, I feel like Christmas has already come and gone! Bah humbug, right? But as happens every year, by the middle of December, I’m the one with the Santa hat on, baking cookies and singing...
Hello Inner Circle readers! I thought I’d use the space this week to take a moment and thank all of the wonderful people who help make the Inner Circle — and the Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) — such a wonderful place to be a part of. They include: our fabulous WIRLC board of advisors, who...
How do you manage your shipping strategy to optimize both top-line and bottom-line results? Much has been said and written about how e-commerce results can be optimized through better management of the shipment portion of the customer experience. The key questions are what has been tried and what’s proven to separate the best in class...
Lots of exciting things happening at the Women in Retail Leadership Circle right now — as usual! For one, we’re in the midst of planning our fourth annual Women in Retail Leadership Summit, which is taking place in Miami at the Four Seasons from April 26-28. We already have some fantastic speakers lined up, including...
Well, now that the election is over… It’s been a wild ride, and regardless of who you voted for, it will be great to get back all of that time we’ve spent watching debates, talking about politics, and reading news articles and friends’ Facebook posts about the election over the past few months! Let’s all...
In episode 15 of Women in Retail Talks, Julia Landauer, championship race car driver and motivational speaker, shares with WIRLC's Co-Founder Melissa Campanelli some of her top tips for conquering your fears. Listen in and tweet at us @WIRLeadership with any comments or questions.
Hope you all had a great Halloween! On to the next holiday! Just a quick thank you to everyone who attended our fantastic Girl Talks events last month. Both our New York City and San Francisco events were huge successes, with great “girl talk” presentations from a variety of interesting women in retail. I just love...
