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Fixing Retail’s Sales Floor to C-Suite Pipeline

Fashion retailers are promoting fewer store employees into corporate roles, missing out on key expertise and diversity as a result.
From Sales floor to c-suite
Fashion companies overlook what their sales associates could bring to the table at their own risk. (BoF Team)

Chanel Scales spent three years dreaming up window displays for a global fast-fashion retailer’s stores across the Midwest. She hoped her skillful styling of mannequins and clothing-and-accessories setups would someday lead to a corporate job where she could set the visual strategy for the chain’s locations nationwide.

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Sheena Butler-Young
Sheena Butler-Young

Sheena Butler-Young is Senior Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers workplace, talent and issues surrounding diversity and inclusion.

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