Kristina Stidham is the digital content director at Women in Retail Leadership Circle and sister brands Total Retail and Women Leading Travel & Hospitality at NAPCO Media. She is passionate about digital media and handles video, podcast and virtual event production for all brands. You can often find her at WIRLC, TR, WLT&H or industry events with her camera and podcasting equipment—or at home on Zoom—recording interviews with thought leaders and business executives.
Kristina holds a B.A. in Media Studies and Production from the Temple University Klein College of Media and Communication in Philadelphia. Go Owls! When she's not in the office, she loves to go on long walks, sing around the house, hangout with her family and two pet guinea pigs, and travel to new places.
This video features an interview with Heather Hasson, co-founder and co-CEO of FIGS, a medical apparel brand. The interview with Women in Retail Leadership Circle Co-Founder Melissa Campanelli took place at the 2019 On The Road: Los Angeles event, which was held on July 24 at the W Hollywood. Hasson speaks about how she and her...
In this episode of Women in Retail Talks, Women in Retail Leadership Circle Associate Content Editor Kristina Stidham interviews Karyn Schoenbart , CEO of The NPD Group, a global provider of information and advisory services to many of the world’s leading brands. Schoenbart is also author of the book “Mom.B.A.: Essential Business Advice From One Generation to the Next.” Listen...
In this episode of Women in Retail Talks, Women in Retail Leadership Circle Associate Content Editor Kristina Stidham speaks with Jan Croatt, CEO and founder of Winston Retail and SO MAJOR, an exclusive series of pop-up shopping events around the country. Listen in as Croatt discusses SO MAJOR’s event themes and products; the types of brands...
This video features the Leadership Panel from the 2019 Women in Retail Leadership Summit, which was held April 29-May 1 at the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne in Miami. Moderator Dawn Robertson, partner, WHYZ Partners, and CEO, OCM, a Spire Capital Portfolio Company, spoke with retail leaders Corie Barry, CEO, Best Buy; Lisa Collier, president and CEO, NYDJ; Mary van Praag,...
In this episode of Women in Retail Talks, Associate Content Editor Kristina Stidham interviews Kirsten Mitchell, senior program manager, inclusion and diversity at Amazon World Wide Customer Service. This episode was recorded at last month's IRCE @RetailX conference. Mitchell discusses how her position influences diversity and inclusion (D&I) at Amazon, how D&I improves team performance and collaboration, and why creating a comfortable and safe environment for employees and customers is critical for retail brands.
In this episode of Women in Retail Talks, Associate Editor Kristina Stidham talks with Flora Delaney, president of Delaney Consulting and author of the new book, Retail The Second-Oldest Profession. Listen in as Delaney identifies seven timeless principles of retail success, corresponding action items that retailers can implement in day-to-day business to fulfill these principles, and shares...
Lauren Nagel is founder and CEO of sister companies FindKeep.Love, a B-to-C partnership marketing platform, and Scale It For Me, a B-to-B customer acquisition agency. FindKeep.Love was a partner sponsor at the 2019 Women in Retail Leadership Summit. In this video, Nagel discusses how FindKeep.Love facilitates partnerships between non-competitive B-to-C brands to create a customer acquisition channel through sweepstakes campaigns and...
In this episode of Women in Retail Talks, you’ll hear a short clip from Grace Killelea's keynote presentation at the 2019 Women in Retail Leadership Summit. Grace is the CEO and founder of GKC Group, a firm that focuses on developing emerging leaders in the middle-of-the-talent pipeline. In this clip, Grace shares a personal story of overcoming hardship, the difference between confidence and arrogance, and how women can uplift other women.
Jeannie Barsam, founder and CEO of Gifting Brands, a partner sponsor at the 2019 Women in Retail Leadership Summit, discusses how retailers can address the issue of excess inventory through donation. Barsam offers details into how Gifting Brands is providing a solution that does social good. During her more than 20-year career working for enterprise retailers, Barsam saw companies...
In this episode of Women in Retail Talks, Associate Content Editor Kristina Stidham interviews Courtney Shaffer Lovold, client success director at Emarsys, a marketing automation, personalization, and data management platform. Listen in as Lovold discusses how retail marketers can use technology to achieve personalization at scale, how Emarsys’ artificial intelligence-enabled platform can help marketers get back...
