The Labor Crunch
Solving Workforce Challenges in Distribution
Thursday September 25, 2025 @ 10 AM ET | Virtual
Labor shortages continue to challenge the distribution industry, making it more important than ever to attract, retain, and optimize workforce productivity. This session will cover innovative labor management strategies, automation solutions, and workplace practices that can help mitigate labor constraints. Whether you’re facing talent churn or planning for future workforce needs, this webinar will provide practical approaches to building a resilient and efficient team.
You’ll gain insight into:
- Practices that help build long-term workforce resilience
- Proven labor management tactics
- Automation tools to optimize productivity
Meet the speakers:
Ashley Thomas
Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
Ashley is an associate partner, delivery expert, and a core leader with McKinsey’s People and Organizational Performance Practice and Connected Leadership Academy, our vehicle for expanding opportunity pipelines globally. In this role, Ashley supports clients on a variety of talent topics, with expertise in building and scaling global capability-building programs and supporting organizations in unlocking talent as a lever for sustainable, inclusive growth across industries. They have over 10 years of experience advising clients on a variety of operations-oriented topics, including workforce effectiveness, and supporting leaders as they navigate performance and transformation to address evolving priorities.
Sara Prince
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Sara Prince is the global leader of McKinsey’s Distribution practice and core leader in McKinsey’s Growth Practice with 20 years of experience serving distribution, travel, transportation, logistics, consumer and financial services clients on growth strategy, commercial capability building and digitally enabled growth transformation. Sara has helped clients with a focus on scaling leadership capacity to drive change, embedding an execution engine to operationalize change, building individual capabilities required to deliver a company’s growth strategy.
Vesna Brajkovic
Senior Editor, Modern Distribution Management
Vesna Brajkovic joined MDM’s editorial team as Senior Editor in May 2023 after covering the transportation and freight logistics industries as a B2B publication editor for more than seven years. At MDM, she provides in-depth market analysis and insights for the wholesale distribution sector through Premium-member content, such as articles, blogs, research reporting and more.
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