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Mark your calendars! We’re excited to announce that this spring Women in Retail Leadership Circle will be hosting its second Women in Retail Leadership Days! Just like last time, the virtual event’s agenda is filled with bite-sized sessions spread out over the course of four weeks. You can expect a mix of keynote presentations and...
After a tumultuous year of racial injustice protests, heated political climates, and Black-owned businesses in particular shuttering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Black History Month feels more important than ever. It’s a reminder to always lift up, listen to, celebrate and stand with the Black men and women in our lives, not just...
New year, new board! We’re thrilled to introduce you to our Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) advisory board for 2021-2022. These 22 fabulous women will influence WIRLC’s mission, content and brand. You’ll probably recognize some of their names and/or faces. Our board members are all executive leaders in the retail industry, and women we...
We’re so excited to host the January installment of our Women in Retail and Total Retail Virtual Exchange, taking place Thurs., Jan. 28. Our Virtual Exchanges, which we launched last year, feature in-depth, one-to-one interviews with some of the retail industry’s leading executives. The conversations cover a variety of timely and relevant topics in a...
Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) is thrilled to announce the launch of its new sister brand, Women Leading Travel & Hospitality, a membership-based association that connects executive women across all sectors of the travel and hospitality industry. Following continued year-over-year growth of WIRLC, we recognized the opportunity to establish a professional community in the...
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a new year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” — Susan Sontag I thought I would open this week’s Inner Circle with one of my favorite New Year’s quotes, from the writer Susan Sontag. I thought it was especially fitting since after we all experienced in...
As 2020 winds down, Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) would like to take this opportunity to thank our subscribers, members, sponsors and speakers for your continued support throughout this year. We are so appreciative of each and every one of you. Inner Circle will be taking a break until Jan. 6, but until then,...
The final Women in Retail and Total Retail Virtual Exchange event of 2020 is happening live on Wed., Dec. 16 at 11:00 a.m. ET! This month’s lineup of retail speakers will discuss everything from leadership tips, to how to deal with holiday supply chain stress, to digital transformation initiatives for the new year, among many...
From Our Community, the latest content initiative from Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC), each week highlights various events, business launches, retail partnerships, charitable initiatives, and more, all sent to us by the readers of Inner Circle as well as members of the Women in Retail Leadership Circle community. If you have an announcement that...
Women in Retail Leadership Circle wants to celebrate women who have reinvented themselves and their careers after the age of 40! We’re creating a list of women in the retail industry who are dismissing the notion that 40 is “past your prime.” This new report, The New Next Gen: The Women Who Are Transitioning Their...
