Taydra Mitchell Jackson, an alumnae of L’Oréal, P&G and Revlon who’s currently Sundial Brands’ chief marketing officer, has all the time been guided by serving the multicultural beauty consumer.

“The primary third of my profession was in big beauty, getting great experience but doing intrapreneurial sort of projects serving the multicultural beauty consumer. That’s been the through line,” she said. “I left Revlon and went to work for Dr. Susan Taylor, who was launching a prestige skincare line for ladies of color. That kicked off my 10 to 12 years working with smaller, women-led businesses.”

It wasn’t long before Mitchell Jackson moved to Sundial. It was life milestones along with her twin daughters that precipitated that move. “I made a decision I need to give you the option to affect each women and consumers,” she said. “But I desired to do it on a broader scale. And I used to be in a position to transition back into corporate, but working with the Sundial team on SheaMoisture is bringing together all of the things which can be so necessary to me when it comes to overserving the underserved consumers.”

That’s still her jumping-off point when driving growth at SheaMoisture. “First, we recognize that we’re here to serve,” she said. “Coming from the mindset of serving the buyer and serving our end user. That’s the mindset of the entire teams and what I deal with. It sounds clichéd, but it surely’s all the time been in regards to the consumer first — what are her needs, what are her desires, and what can we anticipate?”

Anticipation can also be central to her ethos: speed and agility are a part of her growth strategy. “Considered one of the things I loved about working in additional of an entrepreneurial environment was that you simply don’t have a variety of time, you don’t have the posh of overanalysis, evaluation paralysis. With the ability to move quickly and nimbly, having the ability to respond and anticipate, is an art and a science.”

Mitchell Jackson acknowledged that beauty has turn out to be “highly personalized, highly customized,” but added that “somewhere, the pendulum shifts and swings back to the center. I like where we’re in beauty now, and so far as we’ve come, there’s still just thus far that we’ve got to go — many more voices and skin tones, hair textures, and all of which can be just not on the table.”

Considered one of the more heartening developments has been “ larger firms determining to expand,” she said. “Whether it’s a cosmetics business where they’re expanding shade ranges, or whether it’s a hair care business where they’re really homing in on textures. And we’re seeing indie brand founders sit on the table in powerful and meaningful ways.”

Mitchell Jackson expects solutions to turn out to be much more personalized, too. “Beauty tech is the brand new frontier, when it comes to how beauty will probably be revolutionized. We’ve got one million and one shampoo offerings, and as many shades as you may get,” she said. “But the power to have a customer and [know] how their needs are getting met through using tech, meaning personalization and customization is where we’re headed.”