Speaker

With over thirty-five years experience in retail management and human resources, Sherry Hollock is currently the Senior Vice President, NYC Headquarters HR and Enterprise Talent and Organization Development at Macy’s Inc.  Sherry maintains offices in both Macy's, Inc., corporate offices in NYC and Cincinnati, Ohio.  Macy’s is one of the nation's premier retailers, with fiscal 2012 sales of $27.7 billion. The company operates more than 840 department stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico under the names of Macy's and Bloomingdale's.   

Sherry holds a B.S. in Individual and Family Studies from The Pennsylvania State University.  She joined Federated Department Stores in 1986 as the Divisional Vice President, Training and Development for the Lazarus division, after spending over 13 years in stores, merchandising, and human resources at John Wanamaker in Philadelphia.  In 1987, she accepted additional responsibilities for executive recruitment and placement, succession-planning, and other organization development functions.  Assigned to enterprise-wide talent and organization development in 1995, Sherry is responsible for organization development, executive and career development, succession planning, college relations, employment, and executive recruitment and staffing for Macy’s, Inc.  Sherry and her team created the Federated Leadership Institute in 1998, which currently serves as the corporate university for the top 2000 executives in the corporation. In 2010, Sherry accepted additional responsibilities as the Human Resources lead for the merchandising, merchandise planning, marketing and macys.com organizations. 

Sherry has spoken at many conferences in the Human Resource arena including American Society of Training and Development, Training, and the National Retail Federation.  She has written numerous articles in human resource and retail industry publications, including STORES, Training and Development, Training, and HR Magazine.