Looking good on the platform for speakers

1. Looking good on the
platform
Sharon Connolly

2.  Average woman spends
$2,000 a year on their
wardrobe but only
wear 30% of their
clothes

3.  Women spend eight
years of their life
shopping

4.  the average
woman spends
$18,000 on
make-up in her
lifetime
(£121 per year spend – Who are they kidding?)

5. Deciding what to wear?
3,276 Hours

6. BAD
HAIR
DAY ?

14. How does that
apply to me as
a speaker?

16. Mirror

17. Fish

22. GEN Y knows what you don’t know

23. It’s not about your attitude to
dressing and fashion
It’s about what your audience
thinks and knows

24. Worry
Big Time

25. Pay Attention
Yep You!

26. Time to get….
Fabulous

27. Personal Packaging
 Colour
 Personality
 Style
• Appropriate
• Flattering
• Current

31. Colour Management
Dark Authoritative
Medium Approachable

32. BRIGHT Confident Creative
LIGHT Ineffectual
Cultural diversity?
Industry appropriate?

35. Understand Personal
Colour Pattern

36. Fashion
Personality

38. Style Personality
Classic Dramatic Romantic Natural

39. Classic Dramatic Romantic Natural

40. scruffy lazy outdated deluded

41. Think about what you
actually like to wear

42. What do I wear in 2011?

43. Remember…
 Gen Y knows
 250 millisecond snap judgement
 Part of your personal & corporate brand
 Get paid more because you look like you’re
worth it

54. Details
 Belt and shoes colour match
 Black shoes formal, brown informal
 Socks match shoes
 Smart shoes thin soles
 Short tidy hair, thinning hair cropped short
 Small angular glasses, frameless or bold
 Phone/laptop, ipad etc in a “man bag”

64. • Shoes and bag DO NOT match. tone, or highly
contrast with statement bag
• Polished make-up
• Knee length or slightly above knee hemlines
• Sleek 40’s style silhouette
• Power Dressing
• Stiletto heels
• Short neat dark nails

65. Fabulous or
Fish

66. Fabulous of Fish Checklist?
 Current?
 Admired?
 Brand Reflective?
 Appropriate?
 Groomed?
 Organised?
 Consistent?
 Advertised?

67. Sharon Connolly