How Kendra Scott is surviving the pandemic

How Kendra Scott is surviving the pandemic | Top female leaders on the state of gender equality | How to promote leaders through sponsorship Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( October 15, 2020 CONNECT WITH NEW  [LinkedIn]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( €‰ [NEW SmartBrief]( [NEW SmartBrief]( Gender equality news for retail, CPG, financial services and tech [SIGN UP]( â‹… [SHARE]( [] Top of the week [] [How Kendra Scott is surviving the pandemic]( Jewelry brand Kendra Scott has looked to its roots with a focus on its values of family, fashion and philanthropy to get through the pandemic, says executive Mindy Perry. The company reimagined its plans to ship from stores, worked to keep store employees engaged and implemented online styling and philanthropy initiatives. Full Story: [Women's Wear Daily (subscription required)]( (10/14) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( Trends to invest in for reopening The foodservice industry has been forced to evolve and innovate in order to address today's constantly changing climate and consumers' shifting habits. Join Frank Rodriguez of Noodles & Company and Darren Seifer of The NPD Group on Oct. 27th at 2pm EST as they discuss the innovations worth investing in for reopening and beyond. [Register now.]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Leading During a Crisis [] [Top female leaders on the state of gender equality]( In assessing the continued fight for gender-based equality, a group of nine female leaders agree that much needs to be done, particularly to bring more Black, Latino and transgender women's perspectives into the fold. "Fighting for a bigger table is the guiding principle behind most of the work that I do because we need the voices of a widely diverse group of women to truly affect the next, crucial wave of change our country needs," said Monica Ramerez, founder and president of Justice for Migrant Women. Full Story: [Mashable]( (10/12) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [How to promote leaders through sponsorship]( Help move diverse leaders into high-level executive roles by giving them sponsors who can influence C-suite decisions, write professors Herminia Ibarra and Nana von Bernuth. Understand the distinction between mentors and sponsors and consider matching people with similar backgrounds when possible, they write. Full Story: [Harvard Business Review online (tiered subscription model)]( (10/9) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [7-Eleven exec: Build relationships to improve service]( [7-Eleven exec: Build relationships to improve service]( (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Executives should look to improve life for employees and customers, says Jennifer Goschke, 7-Eleven's chief accounting officer and controller, who describes how she's built relationships across functions and sought to solve pain points. "What I love most about retail is just putting myself in customers' shoes and coming up with ways to help them," she says. 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Full Story: [Business Insider]( (10/9) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Working moms receive fewer promotions, pay raises]( Thirty-four percent of men who are working remotely at home with children say they've been promoted, compared with 9% of women in the same boat, according to research from theBoardlist and Qualtrics. Also, 26% of men in that situation have received a pay rise, compared with just 13% of women. Full Story: [CNBC]( (10/13) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Hard data is key to effective D&I efforts]( Visier CEO Ryan Wong discusses how data analytics can help companies examine their efforts on diversity and inclusion while protecting privacy. "Companies can only experience real change on diversity and inclusion once leaders take action to address the hard truths it reveals," Wong says. Full Story: [Silicon Republic (Ireland)]( (10/13) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Hedge funds have much room to improve on diversity]( Women still hold relatively few senior roles within the hedge fund sector, while most funds with female or Black owners have less than $500 million in assets under management. The reasons for this include the practice on Wall Street of promoting internally, low rates of employee churn and resistance to change, industry experts say. Full Story: [Bloomberg (tiered subscription model)]( (10/7) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [] Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. 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