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How to Be a Post-Pandemic CEO

Top fashion executives are sharpening the skills they will need most to strengthen morale and boost business after a year of crises.
Top fashion executives are sharpening the skills they need most to strengthen morale and boost business after a year of crises. Chelsea Carpenter for BoF.
Top fashion executives are sharpening the skills they need most to strengthen morale and boost business after a year of crises. Chelsea Carpenter for BoF.
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On an early Wednesday morning in May, Reebok president Matt O’Toole held a meeting with the athletic brand’s team in India that almost certainly wouldn’t have happened pre-pandemic: it was a conference call focused squarely on the employees’ personal lives.

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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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