Linda brings 15+ years of International Senior Retail Management experience to the team. Linda has an innate ability to embrace difficult challenges and working/living environments so is no stranger to driving consensus change within her area of expertise and within challenging markets.
Post a successful career in various senior retail management positions in the UK in 1998 Linda moved to Kuwait as she was selected to drive the introduction and development of a very well-known high street brand on behalf of a leading Bahrain based franchise partner. From Kuwait Linda was then selected to manage 5 fashion retail brands in Dubai. From this successful assignment Linda was then selected to drive the launch of 20+ fashion retail outlets across the GCC.
Linda has strong organizational and logical thinking skills, which have undoubtedly been some of the main ingredients for her successful career. These skills have also been translated into the legal industry business sector to assist a prominent international Intellectual Property corporation within the Marketing Department. Linda excels at training and development in the field of Customer Service excellence, which is driven by her analytical skills and understanding of customer demographics. This coupled with Linda’s strong Emotional Intelligence skills makes her a natural professional leader.
Linda had a career break to focus on successfully raising her family, which has drawn upon her life and career skills. Linda by nature has a ‘have a go’ attitude to life in general and embraces new experiences and global cultural differences such as enjoying the challenge of skydiving from 15,000 feet or exploring the Ho Chi Minh tunnels in Vietnam.