The Future of Work at Walmart Canada

Kimberly Lee Minor is a highly accomplished executive and advisor with over 30 years of dynamic leadership experience spanning retail, brand management, and e-commerce. Her expertise has driven success across diverse brands, ranging from $40 million to $4 billion in revenue. In addition to recently being appointed CEO of WOC Retail Alliance and serving as a faculty member at The Fisher School of Business, Ohio State University, she also contributes as a board director of BlueConic, an award-winning martech company.
Passionate about empowering women, she often speaks on topics such as leadership, economic empowerment, and professional development, including a recent TEDx talk. Her contributions have been recognized industry-wide, earning distinctions like being named one of Rethink Retail’s Top Retail Experts for 2024 and inclusion in WWD’s esteemed list of 50 Women of Power.
Beyond her professional endeavors, she actively engages in civic initiatives, serving on boards such as Dress for Success, NA Community Foundation, the CAPA Board of Directors, and the Columbus Fashion Alliance.
Kimberly and her husband, Marc B. Minor, Esq. have 2 sons and a dog named Blu.

In her current role, AnnMarie leads Walmart Canada’s human resources with over 100,000 associates supporting more than 400 stores, distribution centres and fleet hubs nationwide and a growing e-commerce business.

She’s known as a developer of talent, motivating others to strive to their full potential, capitalizing on their unique capabilities and demonstrating how their actions translate to our ‘bigger picture’.

AnnMarie joined Walmart Canada in 2015 and has been instrumental in charting the retailer’s path forward on strategic initiatives driving the talent agenda, organizational design and future ways of working with her ability to translate strategy into action and collaborate across the organization.