"By taking jobs with the right firms applying the right strategies, I worked my way into roles where I learned even more than I would have expected, which furthered my career."
"It's so valuable for young professionals to learn everything they can about all aspects of the business, but that can't happen without questions and curiosity," says Wendy Rogers of LPA Design Studios.
"My colleague once told me that I should 'always perform the job I wanted, and the job that I had,'" says Yudi Fernández Kim of Schwartz Media Strategies.
The question of performance, along with the store sales and occupancy, were among the many topics we discussed with retail heavy hitters in advance of the big ICSC - Here, We Go. 2021 conference in Las Vegas this December.