Cristina Ceresoli, vice president, intimates group at Chico’s FAS, is a Women in Retail Leadership Circle board member and retail marketing expert! The below is a first-person account of a typical day for her at the Naples, Fla.-based Chico’s FAS office, giving us a glimpse into her world and the opportunity to get to know...
We’re excited to be back and starting 2020 off with an e-newsletter filled with original content designed for you! With a new year (and new decade!) comes new projects and changes, and this is true for Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC). In this issue of Inner Circle you’ll notice we have a new video...
When working for the same company or even in the same industry for many years, it’s not uncommon to get bored with your work. At our Women in Retail Leadership Circle On the Road | San Francisco event, Diana Kapp, journalist and author of “Girls Who Run the World,” moderated a panel on leadership with...
Susie Kuhn is one of Women in Retail Leadership Circle’s newest members! She’s the executive director of strategy and business development at URBN, where she leads the research, collaboration, development, and executive and board communication of major initiatives across its portfolio of brands (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, BHLDN, Terrain, and Vetri). We asked Susie...
Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) Co-Founder Melissa Campanelli interviewed Sheree Waterson, former chief of product at Athleta, at WIRLC’s On the Road | San Francisco event last month. The pair discussed Waterson’s career path, her professional successes and challenges, and what’s next for her. For example, Campanelli asked Waterson what advice she had for...
Angie Rieger, senior vice president, international at Lands’ End, is a Women in Retail Leadership Circle board member and retail veteran. The below is a first-person account of a recent business trip Angie took to Japan, giving us a glimpse into her world and the opportunity to get to know her better.
The transition to parenthood is the most overlooked leadership development opportunity in a career. A time that’s traditionally thought of as stressful and distracting can be cultivated into nurturing inherent skills that will have a parent feel supported, up-leveled, and likely to return to work. In this video, Nesting Your Business Founder Meghan Dicklin shares...
It’s time for our annual Top Women in Retail list! Over the last nine years, this feature has highlighted leading female executives in the retail industry, and we want your input on who should be included on the 2020 list. So, who should you nominate? Nominees for the 2020 Top Women in Retail list should...
During her keynote presentation at Women in Retail Leadership Circle: On the Road, San Francisco, Robyn Sue Fisher, CEO and founder of Smitten Ice Cream, explained how studying the coffee industry helped her take the plunge in launching a fresh, unprocessed, made-to-order ice cream company. In 2006, Fisher was in business school at Stanford University...
During the Leadership Panel at the Women in Retail Leadership Circle On the Road | New York City event, moderator Cindy Marshall, CEO and founder of SHINE Strategy, asked the panelists what traits they believed great leaders possessed, and which of those traits they believed were their personal strengths. Emily Culp, CEO of Cover FX,...
