HR Retail 2025

April 15 - 17, 2025

JW Marriott LA LIVE, CA

Elaine Lou Cartas

Executive Career Coach & Speaker Elaine Lou LLC

Day 1: Building the Retail Workforce of the Future

9:10 AM Panel: Making Retail a Long-term Career Choice

  • How to attract talent within a transforming talent pool
  • Positioning retail as a desirable industry for high quality talent to build a career
  • Defining an employee value proposition that resonates with the modern candidate

1:40 PM Panel Interactive: Aligning Talent Acquisition Strategy to Today’s Labor Market

• Adapting to evolving candidate expectations to attract top talent into retail roles

• Understand staffing gaps that can boost store performance and customer service quality

• Leverage technology and automation to speed up hiring, reducing time-to-fill 

Day 2: Rebuilding the Next Generation Retail Workforce

12:40 PM Fireside Chat: Bridging Generations: Cultivating an Inclusive Culture in a Multigenerational Workplace

• Navigating cultural transformation and reshaping a traditional luxury brand for a multigenerational workforce

• Adapting policies and practices in an environment historically designed for a single generation

• Implementing a new framework focusing on team dynamics, evolving guest profiles, and the shift from managing to coaching


Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Elaine Lou.

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