Retail Leadership with Steve Worthy

What Happens When You Inherit Bad Leaders in Retail?

Send us Fan Mail Are you stepping into a new leadership role only to find you have inherited a team of underperformers?  Your success as a leader is tied directly to yo

Writing Exposed Some Unresolved Professional Issues

Send us Fan Mail At some point, this stopped being just a book I was writing. The process started doing something to me. In Part 1B of my journey writing The Retail Le

Why Most Teams Underperform Even With Great Talent

Send us Fan Mail Talent Is Not Enough: Why Great Teams Still Underperform A team can have experience, intelligence, strong résumés, and high performers everywhere you l

Retail Safety Is Now Your Problem with Dean Correira

Send us Fan Mail The safety and security conversation has reached the board level. And if you're a retail leader in the field, it is coming down to you whether your

I Thought I Knew How to Write a Book

Send us Fan Mail I thought writing a book would mostly be about getting the ideas out of my head and onto the page. I was wrong. In Part 1A of this special Retail Lead

Ready Is Not Enough in Retail Right Now

Send us Fan Mail Being ready for the next opportunity does not guarantee you get it. Steve learned that the hard way - outperformed for a role he thought was already his

Unscripted: Outlasting Doubt, Defining Your Problem, and Being Seen

Send us Fan Mail I wasn't planning on recording this morning. Good thing he did. This unscripted episode covers three things retail leaders are sitting with right

Why Innovation Dies After the Conference - Part 2 of 4

Send us Fan Mail Part II is about the moment most leaders mishandle. After a conference, leaders return energized. New ideas. New language. New urgency.  And almost imm

Translate Inspiration Into Ownership (Not Initiatives) Part 3 of 4

Send us Fan Mail Part III is about the mistake that kills most conference ideas. Leaders come back with insights, slides, notes, and energy. They share the information.

Do You Have the Discipline to Say No? Part 4 of 4

Send us Fan Mail The Discipline to Say No (The Decision That Determines Everything) This is the decision most leaders avoid. After the conferences. After the ideas. Af

After NRF: Decide the Real Problem (Part 1 of 4)

Send us Fan Mail After NRF: Decide the Real Problem (Part 1 of 4) Most conferences don’t fail because the ideas are bad. They fail because leaders come back with volume

What’s your (one) word for 2026?

Send us Fan Mail There were years when things looked fine from the outside, but they weren’t fine. Professionally, I was doing the work. Personally, I was carrying more

Inside the Retail Executive Mind: A Conversation Founders Need with Ang Nayyar, CEO of StrutFit

Send us Fan Mail If you’re a founder trying to sell into retail, this episode may save you months of missteps. If you’re a retail leader evaluating new technology, it’ll

What Happens When You’ve Outgrown Your Role?

Send us Fan Mail What Happens When You’ve Outgrown Your Role? In this episode, I sit down with Ryan Holm from Helzberg Diamonds, and we get right into the real tension

Every Product Pays Rent!

Send us Fan Mail Retail is not complicated. It is hard work.  This episode gets us back to the basics that keep a store alive: profit, time, and turns. I sit down with

Designing Retail Conferences That Actually Teach Leaders!

Send us Fan Mail Conference fatigue is real. The solution isn’t bigger booths. It’s better design. In this episode of Retail Leadership with Steve Worthy, Jamie Hancock

Ricardo Belmar: Simplifying Retail’s Complexity

Send us Fan Mail Retail technology often gets lost in hype. But what does it actually mean for leaders on the ground? In this episode of Retail Leadership with Steve Wo

NetConV is Changing Grocery eCommerce

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Retail Leadership with Steve Worthy, I sit down with Lucas Piccinin, founder of NetConV, a platform designed to bring real-time expir

Most Retailers Are Not AI-Ready!

Send us Fan Mail Everyone’s talking about AI, but few retail leaders are asking the deeper question: Is your company truly AI-ready—or just overwhelmed with data? In th

Listening is a Leadership Skill

Send us Fan Mail What if your customer feedback system could make you a better leader—not just improve your metrics? In this episode of Retail Leadership with Steve Wor