Dora Yarid

About Dora

• Growing up, she worked at a clothing store that had been in her family for three generations.
• Her father would take her on buying trips to New York, and those were exciting to her—she knew she wanted to be a buyer when she grew up.
• She went to Miami University, where she decided that if she wanted to run a retail store, she should get a degree in business; during her courses, she found she also excelled in marketing.
• After graduating, she took a job at a department store, where she found a mentor with whom she stayed in touch with for years afterward.
• She stayed with that store for five years, but her job there required a lot of travel—when she started to settle down and start a family, she knew it was time to make a change.
• Her mentor had ended up starting his own business—which became Fossil—and when she reached back out to him, he offered her a job.
• She’s been with the company for 27 years and chalks up her success to the connections she’s made and her commitment to staying curious and learning about her job.
• As a manager, she says that her personal definition of success is when the people around her feel excited by, and engaged with their work.