Angela Gearhart

Sr. Director In Store Experience
Sleep Number Stores

Angela is currently Sr. Director In Store Experience at Sleep Number where she leads the vision and strategy to elevate the brand through a consumer-centric interactive shopping experience that is considered "best in class" retail leadership. She is a highly experienced retail executive with demonstrated ability to establish sales driving marketing, branding and digital experiences that seamlessly elevate the customer journey. She has a proven track record increasing customer traffic and consideration by integrating leading edge technology into the bedding shopping experience, exceeding consumers’ expectations. Angela has demonstrated a record of quantifiable achievements in the leadership, design and marketing strategies to drive long term growth. Her experience also includes end-to-end holistic strategies for hard line and soft line categories in specialty, big box, events and theme retail formats.

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Cross-Channel Technology Enablement

Friday, January 6th, 2017

11:25 Panel Discussion: Disruptive Innovation: Staying A Step Ahead Of The Savviest Consumers

When consumers have the latest technology available at their fingertips, oftentimes they know more about products and prices than the associates working in-store. Retailers that have taken the initiative to incorporate disruptive technology into the brick and mortar are providing customers with the experience they desire and engaging them in innovative ways. Our insightful panel will address the importance of being savvier than your customers to truly provide a unique experience.

• Adopting disruptive technology to accommodate smarter, more
digitally advanced consumers
• Debating the merits of incremental innovation vs. a disruptive
approach
• Appraising what disruptive innovation means for your business:
physically changing the flow of the store, the entire
infrastructure, etc.?
• Incorporating innovative start-ups and technology to help disrupt
the business