Executive leadership is the ability of those who manage employees within an organization to influence and guide individuals to get their best performance. The content featured in this category provides valuable insights for executive leaders on how they can manage their teams better and meet organizational goals.
In this episode of Women in Retail Talks, Women in Retail Leadership Circle Co-Founder Melissa Campanelli interviews Lauri Joffe Turjeman, chief marketing officer at American Freight, a retail furniture chain part of Franchise Group, Inc. Listen in as Joffe Turjeman shares tips for getting your team on board during a transformation like a brand refresh, her top leadership lessons, a time where a failure or setback was instrumental in her growth, and more.
Duration: 21:49
Sapna Shah Parikh has a very similar philosophy to her employer, Kendo Brands: It’s a philosophy that embraces risk-taking, dreams big, and doesn’t forget about the hustle. Kendo — started in 2010 by former Sephora Americas CEO David Suliteanu — owns and manages six brands, including Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin (both founded by the singer...
Asian Americans represent 13 percent of the professional workforce in the U.S., yet less than half (6 percent) reach the executive level, according to KPMG. And a 2022 McKinsey & Co. study of 400 organizations in the U.S. showed that Asian Americans account for nine percent of senior vice presidents but just 5 percent of...
This video features a discussion from the 2024 Women in Retail Leadership Summit, held April 29-May 1 in Amelia Island, FL. Chris Evert, international tennis champion and founder of Evert Tennis Academy, sat down with Courageous Leadership Institute CEO Cindy Solomon and jewelry entrepreneur Monica Rich Kosann for a fireside chat at the 10th annual Summit....
This video features a discussion from the 2024 Women in Retail Leadership Summit, held April 29-May 1 in Amelia Island, FL. Kat Cole, president and chief operating officer of Athletic Greens, was the opening keynote for the 10th annual Summit and shared how she learned to iterate, adapt, and succeed faster in her 20-plus year...
The idea for an alliance that elevates women of color in the retail space first came to Kimberly Minor when she was working at Ann Taylor around 2007-2008. “I was the first and the only and it was very lonely,” she said during an exclusive interview with Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) at Shoptalk,...
We’re so excited to feature Cindy Carlisle, executive vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO) of Foot Locker, Inc. in the Women in Retail Inner Circle Q&A this week. In her role, Cindy oversees the development and execution of Foot Locker’s global human resource (HR) strategy. Prior to joining Foot Locker, she served as...
Juneteenth commemorates the date — June 19th, 1865 — on which the Union Army arrived in Galveston, TX and announced that all enslaved people in Confederate states were free. It is an important day in American, Black and African-American history and is considered the longest-running Black or African-American holiday. It became an official federal holiday...
This video features a discussion from the Women in Retail Pavilion at Shoptalk 2024, held March 18-20 in Las Vegas. H.G. O’Connell, Shoptalk’s director of content, interviewed Aimee Bayer-Thomas, Ulta Beauty’s chief store operations officer, on her three decades in retail. Bayer-Thomas said her career journey has been more of a lattice than a ladder, with...
To say that the state of the modern workplace is drastically different than what it once was a few years ago is an understatement. Year after year since the rise of hybrid work, managers have been responsible for driving results in the face of many unique challenges — prolonged burnout, mass layoffs and ever-increasing business demands...
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