Leigh Rawdon

CEO The Tea Collection

Leigh Rawdon is the co-Founder and CEO of Tea Collection. Tea Collection is a globally-inspired kids clothing company that sells primarily through ecommerce on the TeaCollection.com website but is also available in hundreds of retailers including Nordstrom. Now with 70 employees, San Francisco-based Tea Collection has been recognized for the last few years in Inc Magazine’s “Inc 5000” list of America’s fastest growing private companies as well the San Francisco Business Times lists of fastest growing companies and largest women owned companies in the Bay Area. Leigh earned a BA in English from Davidson and her MBA from Harvard Business School. Leigh lives in Oakland, California with her husband and two sons.

Day One – August 24, 2020: Meeting Customer Needs Amidst Recession And Pandemic

1:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION: Assessing The Status Quo Of Retail And How To Prepare For The Lingering Effects Of Pandemic And Recession

  • Anticipating the short and long-term impacts on the retail sector and how you can scale your business to keep up
  • Crucial survival skills for the retail shakeout
  • The need for accelerating your digital transformation
  • Technologies that have moved from nice to have to must have
  • How to shift resources
  • How digital innovation can help stores
  • Emerging trends as the economy rebounds
  • Rethinking your business model 
  • Leveraging data & insights to inform Your rebound strategy