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.
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...
Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) recently released its 14th annual Top Women in Retail report. The valuable resource highlights female executives who impressed us as well as colleagues from the industry. Honoree Esi Eggleston Bracey, chief growth and marketing officer of Unilever, is one such example. Here’s a sampling of Eggleston Bracey’s interview featured in...
The greatest advice Julie Evans ever got was given to her as she was quitting a job. In an interview at the Women in Retail Pavilion at Shoptalk in March, Evans — the chief marketing officer of Omaha Steaks — spoke with Sharonda Weatherspoon, a Women in Retail advisory board member and the head of...
We are so excited to feature Natalie MacLennan, CEO of Dockers, in the Women in Retail Inner Circle Q&A this week. As Dockers’ CEO, Natalie oversees all aspects of Levi’s casual lifestyle brand across product, marketing, operations and commercial. Since joining the Dockers team in 2020, Natalie has been pivotal in transforming Dockers into a...
Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) recently released its 14th annual Top Women in Retail report. The valuable resource highlights female executives who impressed us as well as colleagues from the industry. We asked several of our “On the Rise” women what skills they developed that led them to be a successful leader in the world...
