NIC+ZOE CEO Susie Mulder talks fashion, authenticity, and supporting emerging women leaders
大胆，新颖和直觉，NIC+ZOE is a clothing brandthat makes it easy for women to live a life full of creatively inspired style. Since its launch in 2005, NIC+ZOE has established a strong reputation for appealing design, consistently delivering a modern, high quality line of clothing.
In 2012, Susie Mulder was appointed CEO of NIC+ZOE, after serving as a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, where she led the Global Retail and Consumer Good practice. Bringing a vast amount on knowledge and experience to the company, NIC+ZOE opened its first flagship store in Boston and, since then,has opened the doors of seven other locations。
Getting ready to joinbeplay官网体育巴布森妇女企业家领导中心作为年度小组成员Disruption Dinner，苏西（Susie）与我们聊了聊她真实的领导风格，同时为对时尚C-Suite感兴趣的新兴领导者提供建议。
Join us on October 16for our annual Disruption Dinner where Susie Mulder, CEO of NIC+ZOE, and Rica Elysee, CEO of BeautyLynk, discuss disrupting the way that business in fashion and beauty is done.RSVP在这里。
CWEL：Nic+Zoe将自己描述为一个庆祝拥有充实生活的女性的品牌。为什么服务和庆祝多维女性很重要？
Susie:I don’t know one woman these days that I wouldn’t describe as multi-dimensional. Working moms, philanthropic leaders, PTO presidents, multi-tasking student athletes – all around us our roles are shifting and expanding. It’s amazing. Woman have tremendous capacity professionally and personally and are making stuff happen! We are proud to design and manufacture clothing that looks great, flatters all figures, and feels comfortable from your first morning meeting to your dinner date and everything in between.
CWEL：您的职业生涯令人印象深刻，使您成为各种文化。性别如何影响这一职业？
Susie:首先，我应该说我有6个兄弟，这样就可以解释我的个性！我从未长大，想到性别之间的区别，只是为我想做的事情设定课程。当然，它在此过程中经常发生变化和转移，但我不会说这与成为女人有关。我坚信，您围绕着生活建立职业，而不是围绕职业发展。
对我而言，最重要的与性别有关的问题一直是妇女支持其他妇女。在我的职业生涯中，我既受到男人和女人的支持，也完全受到了支持。我从一个不到20％的高级女性的环境转变为完全反向。There is no excuse for bad leadership if you’ve been doing it long enough, and you have to enter each mentoring relationship with the goal of helping that woman achieve her highest potential career-wise while feeling equally excited about what’s happening for her outside of work.
CWEL：许多初创公司首席执行官都在努力知道自己有多少真实的自我来工作。您在NIC+Zoe的职位上，您的真实自我中的哪些部分使您成为成功的领导者？
Susie:我可能比应该的更开放的书，但我真的相信，与朋友和家人互动与与同事和同龄人互动时，您不应该成为另一个人。当然，您的行为是专业的，也许更正式的，但是您的价值观和对待人们的方式应该始终保持一致。作为加拿大人，我总是会根据需要默认为主动聆听和自嘲的幽默。说您是一个好听的听众要比成为一个好的听众容易得多。我在做这个工作。我倾向于迅速思考并大声说话，因此对我来说，请更多地停下来，采取所有选择，然后在我身边与一支令人难以置信的团队一起为目标线收费。
CWEL：您如何激发您的团队将自己最好的版本带入工作？
Susie:My team is amazing and self-directed, smart and driven. I try to help them ensure that their confidence is in line with their capabilities and that they believe in themselves. We like to say around here that nothing is above you and nothing is beneath you. As the CEO it’s incumbent upon me to live those values every day. If you hire people who are the right fit for the organization and the role and you support and help develop them it becomes pretty seamless.
CWEL：您会给渴望在时装业中担任C-Suite角色的年轻领导人提供什么建议？
Susie:享受旅程，不要着急。我花了20年代和30年代初急忙结婚，生了孩子，在我的公司中搭档，并参加了高水平运动。我感谢自己的经历，但我认为我可以将它们散开并睡得更多。我想我会给他们与我三个少年一样的建议 - 跟随您的激情，始终努力工作，承担责任并从错误中学习。我最近读了一篇很棒的文章，内容涉及无论您在职业生涯的早期，都会担任“世界一流”，这确实引起了共鸣。您所能做的就是努力工作，开放，学习并在此过程中尽可能多的乐趣，尤其是在不可避免地不按计划进行的情况下。另外，我坚信每个人都应该与Excel建立关系。这可能是一种良好的关系，充满挑战的关系，繁重的或完全被忽略的关系，但是数据和见解是包括时尚在内的所有努力的关键！
要了解有关Susie Mulder的旅程以及她担任NIC+Zoe首席执行官的生活的更多信息，请于10月16日在巴布森学院（Babson College）加入我们的第六次年度破坏晚宴。beplay官网体育RSVP here。