Name your superpower. Take inventory of your beliefs, behaviors and ideas. Identify behaviors that no longer suit you. These are all valuable pieces of advice Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) members heard during Monday’s Virtual Workshop, led by leadership coach Lesli Rotenberg, the founder of Unlock Inspiration. Her workshop, titled “3 Strategies for Becoming...
Ashley Wray began her business in meditation and mindfulness 12 years ago, calling it Mala Collective. The company makes different tools and props to help people connect to themselves, including online meditation courses. More recently, Wray has been working with C-suite executives and athletes to help them bring mindfulness into performance to prevent burnout and...
Senior-level women are calling it quits after decades of climbing the career ladder. Many of the women who have quit their jobs in the past year say it’s because they were overwhelmed with work and are looking to minimize stress. Others feel undervalued and overlooked for management roles they know they are more than capable...
The Supreme Court last week rejected affirmative action in university admissions, ruling that race-conscious decisions are unconstitutional. This ruling could have a wide-ranging impact across retail organizations, as it might lay the groundwork for future challenges to corporate diversity initiatives. Simply put, it’s not clear what the repercussions of this ruling will be on the...
Ines Rosa is the CEO of Sense and Body, a distributor of beauty products in Poland and Europe, and the founder of Sentique International, a company specializing in care and beauty products. She is also the CEO and founder of JCOS, an umbrella brand that represents the highest-quality Japanese cosmetics and care accessories. She’s also...
How often do we see others and think they have it all together? Like they took some magic course on how to have “the thing” and we missed the sign-up sheet and whisper to ourselves, “I’ll never have it.” This very thing happened to me the other week as I saw this prominent female speaker...
Do you know April Sabral? If you don’t, then you should. April is a well-known leadership coach and founder of retailu, an online leadership development portal for field leaders. She is also author of the books “The Positive Effect: A Retail Leader’s Guide to Changing the World,”(2020) and “Incurable Positivity: Seven Steps to Shift from...
Join us in Dallas next month for our next Women in Retail: On the Road event! This event enables executive women in leadership positions at retail companies the opportunity to network, learn from each other, and improve business processes. Attendees will hear inspiring keynote presentations from leaders at enterprise retailers as well as from founders...
Imagine chasing after your dream job and then actually getting that job. Incredible, right? The way the story is supposed to unfold is that you blow it out of the water; your clients, leaders, and colleagues love you; your numbers on every KPI dashboard are unparalleled; you win all sorts of achievement awards; and you...
The best leaders motivate their teams and inspire them to become better leaders themselves. At Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC), we regularly ask our members for tips on how to best keep their teams going, especially during tough times. Here are a few of their answers: 1. Layla Kasha, Chief Marketing and New Store...
