11.30 - 12.00 - How do you prepare for the 2030 consumer?
Putting the consumer at the heart of a retail business is critical for success but is becoming ever harder as consumer trends, tastes and behaviours move with breathtaking speed. To help understand more about a world shaped by social media, influencers, technology and now AI, we have invited one of the world’s leading experts in consumer change to help make sense of it all and suggest how to develop strategies to embrace the disruption.
Janet Levine, Chief Strategy Officer, Mediahub Worldwide and former Global Strategy Lead, Unilever
12.00 - 12.50 - Speed Mentoring: Your Roadmap to 2030
Following its highly successful introduction into the programme last year, this session brings together a team of highly experienced retail leaders who will act as “speed mentors” in sharing their career journeys and insights about how to successfully lead a retail organisation in today’s retail world. Your opportunity to open up a dialogue to ask questions in this private, informal “Speed Mentoring” session.
Moderated by: Lucy Harris, CEO, Altrua
Mentors: Helena Helmersson, Non-Executive Director, On & MANGO
Judith McKenna, Non-Executive Director, Unilever & Delta Airlines
Louise Greenlees, former SEVP Group President, TJX
Mary Homer, former CEO, The White Company