We are honored to have Dawn Zier as a contributor to our Watch Team®. Tune in each week for her Leadership Watch segment!

Dawn is an accomplished CEO and independent board director best known for engineering a remarkable turnaround of the iconic brand Nutrisystem (Nasdaq: NTRI). She currently serves as Chair of the Board for The Hain Celestial Group and has served on multiple public companies and private equity-backed boards. Her breadth of industry experience spans health and wellness, consumer packaged goods, fintech, food, media, direct-to-consumer, and airlines. She also has broad global experience, having responsibility throughout her career for businesses within North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

As an executive, she has led enterprise-wide transformations that capitalized on high-impact opportunities to drive turnaround and growth. A marketer at heart with a passion for data and analytics, she has architected product innovation and marketing breakthroughs that created noteworthy industry firsts and enviable shareholder value. As a board director, she has extensive CEO succession and leadership assessment expertise and has helped navigate several activist situations and M&A opportunities from both the CEO and Director seat.