Working with professional women has always been my sweet spot as a personal stylist. I have never been drawn to the glamour of working with celebrities or socialites. I always wanted to work with impressive and accomplished career-minded women. There needs to be a cost involved for someone to actually pick up the phone and hire a stylist. On the surface, sure, everyone wants a style do-over, but to pull the trigger and actually do it is an entirely different story. After 19 years, my experience with working with this type of client is unmatched.
It took me years of developing skills, building trust, and reputation. You work your way up and over time, attract clients who are in leadership positions, like CEOs of major corporations. Today, I will be talking about one of these clients, an amazing woman whom I have given the alias Ms.
When you envision a female CEO what do you see? Do you visualize an icy, competitive, emotionally distant person? Do you imagine that any woman who has gotten to this point in her career has needed to give up all warmth, compassion, or soft qualities?
First, we have the media to thank for how women who are in leadership professionally have been marginally represented in movies and TV. Second, female CEOs are basically unicorns. Despite the fact that, according to Fortune , there was an all-time high of 23 women in CEO positions at Global companies in , that still only equals 4. Given how underrepresented women are in these leadership positions, it figures that we have only a vague idea of the type of women who have these types of jobs.
These women are high-achieving, enterprising, intelligent leaders who are addicted to excellence, and love to work. In fact, while Ms. In addition, Ms. Incandescent is an unassuming powerhouse with an appearance to match. She has gentle coloring, a genial smile, and a warm, calm personality. In doing some research, I found the leadership board of her company. There was her photo at the top with nearly all white men beneath her.
