Anna Kenney

About Anna Kenney

Retail teams don’t struggle because they lack strategy.They struggle because strategy rarely shows up clearly in everyday decisions.I’ve spent my career working with retail leaders who are balancing ambitious growth plans, complex merchandising decisions, and increasingly sophisticated planning (and now AI-enabled tools), and yet still find alignment breaking down where execution matters most.Here’s the reframe: strategy doesn’t fail because it’s wrong. It fails when teams don’t have the clarity, cadence, and capability to make it real. Tools alone won’t fix that. Neither will more slides.As Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Thread Advisory Group, I help retail teams make strategy stick. My background is in retail merchandising and strategy, and I partner with leaders on the decisions that matter most: how strategy translates into planning, how teams work together, and how technology supports (rather than complicates) execution. This includes advising on retail and AI-enabled software selection, ensuring planning and forecasting systems align to strategy, ways of working, and organizational readiness.At Thread, we bring together retail consulting, merchandising strategy, operations, capability building, and organizational transformation so teams don’t just choose the right direction—they can actually sustain it.If you’re navigating a strategy shift, planning complexity, or a major software decision and want confidence it will truly take hold, let’s talk.

Experience

1. the Parker Avery Group

   Thread Advisory Group

   Present

Education

• Fashion Institute of Technology

  Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Fashion Merchandising

• Purdue University

  B.S., Retail Management

  2005 — 2009