About Conners Consulting
Maureen Conners
Maureen is CEO of Conners Consulting and a Board Director at Fashion Incubator San Francisco (at Bloomingdale's). She is a former Board Director at Deckers (NYSE: DECK, makers of Ugg). Deckers experienced significant growth during the period she was on the Board (growing from $300 Million to almost $2 Billion in revenue). She served in Board Leadership positions as Chair of two Committees: Compensation and then Nominating/Governance. Her background is in Marketing as a former senior executive at Gillette, Levi's and Mattel-where she helped build world-class brands, launched many new products globally and helped increase revenue. Maureen advises CEO's and Boards on strategy, new technologies, new business models and new thinking for creating growth in a disruptive era.
She is a visionary thinker about global strategy and disruptive innovation. She launched two breakthrough programs: CES Insights for Boards and CES and Davos…What Boards and The C- Suite Needs to Know. NACD Directorship Magazine published her article on The Innovation Era's Implications for Boards. She has been quoted in Board publications (NACD, WCD, Agenda Week) and other Innovation publications about Strategic Board issues, Innovation and The Future of Consumer, Retail and Tech Markets.
Maureen was a speaker at The NACD Global Board Leaders' Summit, Deloitte's Board Director Symposium, The CES Retail Summit, The Global Fashion, Retail and Tech Conference and many other Conferences. She has an MBA from Wharton and attended The Stanford Directors' College. Maureen is also on The NACD Northern California Board, The Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board and is a Mentor at Plug and Play Tech Accelerator.