LEADERSHIP
Lesley Saitta
Partner & Strategic Advisor
As Partner & Strategic Advisor, Lesley focuses on developing W. Capra’s expanding solutions, services, and partners globally, and providing strategic advisory to the W. Capra Leadership Team, as well as to its clients and partners. She works closely with both domestic and international retailers, consumer goods companies, software providers and industry associations. Lesley’s focus on leadership, organization, infrastructure and change management transforms companies and yields significant returns. Lesley is a co-founder of Impact 21, which was acquired by W. Capra in April 2024.
Lesley is a mentor to many successful retail executives and entrepreneurs and is committed to expanding equality and diversity in the workplace. Her passion for Stott Pilates, golf, pickleball, reading, championing children with learning differences and personal work with several non-profit foundations keep her both humbled and inspired.
Insights
- How Should You Introduce AI to Your Security Toolset?There is no question that introducing AI capabilities into your company’s environment offers advantages for most business functions, including your company’s Security team, their processes, and the tools they use. However, it’s important to balance the inherent risks with the potential gains before adding AI into your environment.
- Prepping for the End of Year, Holidays, and 2025As each year ends, merchants are forced to deal with the scramble related to holiday season sales and offers which ideally, are executed flawlessly from consumer interaction at point of purchase all the way through backend systems and related cash flows, and an eagerness to hit the start of the next year and begin execution of strategic initiatives.
- Is Walmart’s real-time payments offer going to be a market mover?It was recently announced that Walmart will be working with Fiserv to implement real-time payments for their customers using Fiserv’s real-time payment transaction rails. Real-time payments aren’t a new concept but have had slow bank adoption and even slower merchant and consumer assumption. Will Walmart’s move prompt banks and merchants alike to move more quickly?
