Cara Smyth is a retail industry veteran, Founder of Fashion Makes Change @ Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors – and Senior Managing Director at Accenture, focusing on Responsible Retail sustainability and strategy.  

With a focus on transformational change, together with key industry CEOs, Cara created an initiative called Fashion Makes Change (FMC) to incubate scalable business solutions that address economic, ecological and social opportunities in fashion.  Bringing together a community of industry, non-profits and philanthropy, FMC is a takes a holistic systems change approach that engages consumers and catalyzes collective action. 

In addition to Cara’s non-profit activities, she leads Accenture’s global Responsible Retail sustainability practice, utilizing systems thinking, process innovation, data, and AI to build resilience, reduce impact, manage risk, and enable growth. She embeds profitability and sustainability considerations into every business unit and buyer and supplier relationship, with the goal of transforming how business is done.