As a pioneering and visionary innovator, Sarah is a certified professional image consultant and brand strategist, speaker, trainer and author. Her company, Illustra Image Consulting, provides leading-edge image and brand management strategies to top leaders and high achievers who wish to take the career to the next level. She also delivers innovative, inspiring corporate workshops to assist large organizations in enhancing their corporate to take their business to the next level.
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An opening is becoming available next month for a higher-level position in your organization. You start daydreaming about how it would feel to be offered the job – which would definitely be a promotion for you and is comfortably within your area of e
Whenever I’m working in a corporate environment and attending a networking event or meeting with my potential “leadership tribe,” it amazes me that the business tools of executive leaders look worn, outdated or overly casual. These are strategic business meetings where everyone pre
Every professional needs to have several great headshot photos in their personal branding toolkit. Your mug shot does matter, especially in this era of new media marketing. The business competition is fierce and you need photographs that visually articulate your personal brand. This is true whether
Being single myself up until five years ago – and working in the fashion industry for Macy’s – I used to love watching the TV series Sex and the City. So I recently dragged my husband to the new release of Sex and the City 2. Watching how each of the four women dressed, developing
While attending a June wedding outdoors in Ohio I was intrigued to see so many professionals gathered in one place. I was also amazed to see some noteworthy fashion faux pas and to witness the code of conduct of some of the guests who came for the beautiful celebration.
Let’s admit it. Keeping your professional image crisp and polished can be a little more challenging during those wonderful warmer months. The tendency is to succumb to spring fever and dress in more casual and laid back manner, now that sunnier weather has finally arrived. But getting too lazy
In unearthing your authentic personal brand, one of the steps is to explore your own purpose and mission. By viewing your career on a larger scale in this way, you gain a new perspective that gives you the guidance needed to be more authentic from the inside-out. That, in turn, ensures that you will
The way you dress to present yourself as a leader or high achiever sends messages to people and the jacket is the most powerful and credible item in your wardrobe. When you wear a suit jacket, modern jacket, sports coat, or blazer you send a silent message that you are “the expert.”
Today with all the personally revealing reality shows on TV and the sharing of way too much private and intimate information on social media sites the trend for Too Much Information (TMI) is naturally spreading into the workplace. More and more professionals are getting caught in the trap of reveali
As a professional image consultant one of the things that always amazes me is how many clothes professionals own that they never wear. Women tend to wear only 25 percent of their wardrobes, and men wear 85 percent of the clothes in their closets. That statistic indicates that women like to go shoppi
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