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Lots of exciting stuff happening with the Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC) right now. For starters, Girl Talks West is taking place tomorrow night at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. We’re so excited to hear from our fabulous speaker squad, comprised of Laura Alber from Williams-Sonoma, Brenda van Camp from SharpAlice, Michelle...
Hello Inner Circle readers! We have a great issue in store for you this week. For starters, check out our podcast with Callie Schweitzer, managing editor of Thrive Global, Arianna Huffington’s new corporate wellness company. Callie is a digital media wunderkind who spent the last three years at Time Inc., first overseeing digital innovation for Time...
Mindy Kaling, actress, author, comedian and writer, gave a keynote address to over 9,000 women (and a few men!) last week in Philadelphia during the Pennsylvania Conference for Women. “My relationships with women have been the most sustaining of my life,” Kaling said during her funny and compelling interview-style keynote with media entrepreneur Lesley Jane Seymour....
We’re very excited here at the Women in Retail Leadership Circle. The event we’ve been talking about (oftentimes in this very space) for months is about to happen. That’s right, Girl Talks East is finally taking place, next Thursday evening, Oct. 13, in New York City at the Kitano New York! At Girl Talks, women...
This episode of Women in Retail Talks features an interview with Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology. In the interview, which was recorded at last week’s Shop.org Retail Summit, Reshma shares why retailers should be aware of the gender disparity...
Can women find a good work-life balance and truly have it all? And by “all,” I mean the whole shebang — success in work, family, friends, health and the elusive brass ring, balance. Well ladies, I have a super solid answer. Wait for it … I have no idea. There, I said it. I was...
It’s official: The stage is set for the Women in Retail Leadership Circle’s “Girl Talks” events, taking place in New York City on Oct. 13 and San Francisco on Oct. 27! At Girl Talks, women retail executives gather with their peers to hear short, passionate presentations (each lasting 15 minutes, with five minutes for audience...
In the second episode of our Ladies We Love series, WIRLC catches up with Sheila Haile, chief marketing officer of Cohen’s Fashion Optical, an optical retailer featuring fashion products such as eyeglasses, frames and sunglasses, lenses, contact lenses, and accessories. (Check out our first episode, when we interview Rachel Shechtman, co-founder of STORY.) In this video,...
In part one of this three-part series, I talked about how we are ALL creative, dispelling the notion that creativity is somehow magical and therefore inaccessible to most of us. This installment will debunk five other creativity myths and provide additional tips to help you foster your own creative genius. Myth No. 1: Having ideas...
OK, a study came out recently that debunks a theory I personally have never really believed: the persistent gender pay gap around the world comes from the fact that women are reluctant to ask for a raise. As I suspected, the study shows that women ask for more pay just as often as men do —...
