Linda Hendricks

Strategic Advisor – Brand Expansion, Retail Innovation & Market Execution Linda Hendricks is a Franco-American strategic advisor working at the crossroads of luxury, fashion, innovation, and purpose. Splitting her time between Paris and New York, she supports fashion and lifestyle brands in designing omnichannel expansion strategies, go-to-market plans, and experiential activations, always with a focus on long-term brand equity and sustainable impact. With over 15 years of experience in brand development, creative strategy, and market execution, Linda began her career in trend forecasting before launching Iconsvoice, France’s first digital fashion tradeshow. She later expanded the platform into a creative agency that has supported over 70 emerging and established brands, top-tiers artist, department stores, and malls across Europe, the U.S., and the Middle East. Her client portfolio includes global leaders such as WGSN, NellyRodi, Trendstop.com, The Ascott Group, Beaugrenelle Paris, and La Compagnie de Phalsbourg. She owns an extensive international network of creatives, vendors, and agencies, that contributes and realizes missions for some of the world’s most iconic fashion houses. As a former Senior Consultant at Infosys in New York, Linda played a key role in the digital transformation of major beauty and fashion brands. More recently, she proposed U.S. market development strategies for luxury and fashion brands, blending immersive activations, private clienteling, exclusive partnership and modular business models to drive both ROI and narrative resonance. An Executive MBA graduate from HEC Paris, Linda further deepened her expertise in sustainability systems and impact intrapreneurship through advanced programs at Yale and FDC Brazil. She currently serves as the U.S. & French Fashion Business Editor for Gazzetta Magazine, is a Board Member of 1000 Dreams Fund, and an advisor to the HEC Women in Business Club. Her mission: to help brands grow with soul, scale with meaning, and lead with clarity.