Holly Cole is a retail executive with $3B in sales volume across companies including Neiman Marcus, Victoria’s Secret, Rue Gilt Groupe, as well as helping launch a DTC fashion startup. She has 20+ years’ experience driving merchandising strategies for eCommerce, DTC, brick & mortar, catalog and mobile.
Holly has been able to transform businesses and drive multi-million-dollar growth through strategy and implementation, building fashion-right assortments, focusing on target markets and delivering unique shopping experiences. She has overseen businesses from $25M to $300M and teams of 6 to 40.
In this episode, Holly talks with her friend and colleague, Kate Sheldon, about how her career started, the importance of customer centricity and how inspiration can be found nearly everywhere.
