{"id":225166,"date":"2026-06-03T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/rack-room-shoes-exec-molly-hartney-on-innovation-women-who-rock\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:35:16","slug":"rack-room-shoes-exec-molly-hartney-on-innovation-women-who-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/rack-room-shoes-exec-molly-hartney-on-innovation-women-who-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rack Room Shoes Exec Molly Hartney on Innovation: Women Who Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/footwear-news\/shoe-features\/molly-hartney-rack-room-shoes-women-who-rock-2026-1238951314\/\">Rack Room Shoes Exec Molly Hartney on Innovation: Women Who Rock<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/footwear-news\/shoe-features\/molly-hartney-rack-room-shoes-women-who-rock-2026-1238951314\/\">https:\/\/wwd.com\/footwear-news\/shoe-features\/molly-hartney-rack-room-shoes-women-who-rock-2026-1238951314\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 09:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wwd.com\">wwd.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Molly Hartney, now the chief digital officer at Rack Room Shoes, is committed to responsible AI innovation, emphasizing AI literacy in marketing, inventory optimization, personalization, and internal productivity.<\/li>\n<li>She highlights the importance of digital fluency for leaders, allowing them to ask pertinent questions, understand risks, and make data-driven, cybersecurity, and long-term scalable decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Hartney ensures that technology enhances the brand&#8217;s core values of accessibility, value, and family-centered experiences rather than overshadowing them.<\/li>\n<li>Her leadership approach has shifted from providing all the answers to facilitating collective problem-solving, team listening, and inter-disciplinary collaboration.<\/li>\n<li>Hartney believes in fostering the next generation of female executives, arguing that women&#8217;s skills and perspectives are crucial for today\u2019s rapidly evolving industries requiring leaders who can navigate complexity and lead with empathy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rack Room Shoes Exec Molly Hartney on Innovation: Women Who Rock https:\/\/wwd.com\/footwear-news\/shoe-features\/molly-hartney-rack-room-shoes-women-who-rock-2026-1238951314\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-03&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/molly-hartney-rack-room.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225168,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225166\/revisions\/225168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}