This week’s Inner Circle Q&A features a conversation with Christina Mercando d’Avignon, founder and CEO of Ringly, a New York City-based company composed of designers and engineers dedicated to blending fashion and technology in meaningful ways. Melissa Campanelli: Tell me about your background. Christina Mercando d’Avignon: My passion for art and technology started at an...
One of my favorite things to do on Sunday mornings is reach for the Business section of The New York Times and check out Adam Bryant’s Corner Office column. It’s a Q&A-style interview with interesting CEOs (many of them women!), and it’s always chock-full of great leadership lessons and management tips. Plus, it’s presented in an...
In this new series, the Women in Retail Leadership Circle interviews leaders that inspire us. This week features Michelle Crawford and Jessica Kane, co-founders of Society+, a plus-size women’s apparel company. Melissa Campanelli: Please tell us about Society+. What does the company sell, and how is it different from what’s out there? Michelle Crawford: We’re a...
In this new series, the Women in Retail Leadership Circle interview leaders that inspire us. This week features Marie Tillman, founder of Mac & Mia, a Chicago-based children’s apparel service. Tillman is also co-founder and chairman of the Pat Tillman Foundation, named for her late husband, the former NFL player who died in Afghanistan after enlisting...
Hello Inner Circle readers! I hope you’re all having a great start to summer, and are taking time to stop and enjoy the warmth of the sun, whether at the beach or in your own backyard! (Can you believe July 4 has come and gone? I don’t know about you, but the older I get, the...
We always love when we hear about cool new things our members our doing. So when we heard that Nina Alexander-Hurst, Women in Retail Leadership Circle board member and vice president of brand marketing at fashion jewelry retailer BaubleBar, was involved in a cool partnership, we reached out to her to learn more. BaubleBar and FoodKick by...
Hello Inner Circle readers, and happy first day of summer! While summer is a great time for a bit of rest and relaxation, it’s also a time for busy executives like you to plan ahead for the crazy third and fourth quarters, as well as to spend some time thinking about your career and where...
Hello Inner Circle readers! Not sure how many of you attended the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition (IRCE) last week in Chicago, but if you did, I hope you were able to catch special guest speaker Barbara Corcoran’s presentation. Corcoran, as I’m sure you all know, is an entrepreneur, author and celebrity investor on ABC’s TV...
Hello Lovely Inner Circle Readers! Wanted to tell you about Total Retail Talks LIVE!, the latest networking event from our sister brand, Total Retail. Total Retail Talks LIVE! is basically an amped up version of our well-known Total Retail Roundtable dinner events. Those invitation-only, complimentary dinners have been offering great educational panels about the state...
Hello Inner Circle readers! This week I wanted to tell you about an exclusive, all-expenses-paid event that our sister brand, Total Retail, is hosting in Miami this fall. The invitation-only summit (for men and women!) is called Total Retail Tech: Connecting Retail Technology and Marketing, and it will offer attendees two days to learn from...
