What’s on the minds of Europe’s D2C leaders?
A quarterly tracker
The RetailX Leadership Barometer is a quarterly check-in and check-up for retail leaders.
Think of it as a retail pulse report, but instead of heartbeats, we’re tracking Confidence, Focus, and Strategy—the stuff that actually keeps your business alive!
The Barometer looks at leaders’ views of the Market, their Company, their Team, their Board and their own ‘mojo’ levels. We ask about Values, Purpose, Competitiveness, Skills, Prospects and Strategy.
This tool is not a black hole. Contributors will see their own responses and can assess their views against the market – slicing by company size, role type, country and sector.
By participating, you’ll be joining a select group of industry leaders who aren’t afraid to dig deep and share what’s really going on behind the scenes – and the direction of travel to deliver for stakeholders, colleagues and the consumer.
Who is it for?
Simply, we invite commercial leaders in the consumer-facing businesses of our UK Top500 or Europe Top1000 rankings?
If you’re a decision-maker or people-leader responsible for guiding your company’s strategy, delivery and growth, this Barometer is for you.
Remember, while we’ll share the high-level findings and tracker, only those who contribute to the Barometer will have interactive access to the full data and findings.
Show me the results!
We will publish a summary tracker each quarter, along with high-level analysis, and this will be available to RetailX Essential (free) or Pro membership levels. Only contributors will have full access.
Why should you complete it?
Apart from the sheer joy of telling us how you really feel? We’ll make it worth your while:
- Free Access to the RetailX Intelligence platform—yep, we said free. Real-time insights, trends, and all the heads up you need.
- Benchmarking – We’re all facing many of the same challenges. See how your opinions stack up against your peers. Are they just as worried about the market or as confident in their team and board as you? Find out!
- Get the full Leadership Barometer Report – compare your views to industry-wide trends—basically, a cheat sheet for your next board meeting.
If you are a qualifying retailer or brand, i.e. you hold a board level position you will also be invited to join RetailCraft our network where the leaders behind the retailers and brands in our rankings connect, learn, and share insights.
Your Timeline
- Survey
Take the survey. It should take no more than 12 minutes
- Results
Get the results in an instant or when we reach 100 responses
- Share
Share the survey link with peers to get their views
- Analysis
Get the quarterly data pack, analysis and webinar invitation
- Repeat
Repeat next quarter
How will you use my data?
Your participation is strictly confidential. We take data privacy seriously. We’re only interested in the big picture, and your individual data will never be shared, only the aggregate results will be published – so feel free to be brutally honest!
Being specific, if you get an invite we’ll have researched you and asked you join. The personal link encodes information about your company and its sector (to allow ready analysis of responses). The link does not identify you in any way, and your identity is not known or visible to the survey company (Qualtrics) nor the data team.
If you have been recommended the survey and complete it without an invite, we require an email address (so you have the results) and a Linkedin profile so we can attribute your responses. Your data is not shared, sold or used for any other purposes. At all. Ever.
