Tailoring Your Image with Krysta McGowan

Break Concrete: Black Women At Work

Dressing the part is only one step in your journey toward professional success. Equally important is understanding and controlling your image, which includes your communication, your personal brand, your wardrobe style, and more. In today’s episode, Krysta McGowan, the founder and visionary behind Critique Consulting, an image consulting firm, discusses how an image consultant can positively impact your career. Through Critique Consulting, Krysta provides services such as brand development, wardrobe styling, and personal shopping to professional women across the country.

Find links and show notes at https://breakconcrete.com/bc041.

Topics Covered:

• Defining image consulting
• How image consultants can help you with enhancing your personal image and wardrobe styling, personal shopping, communications, and professional development
• Why Krysta started Critique Consulting and how she built her company
• Understanding your body type and shape
• Finding clothing that accentuates your body (patterns, prints, shapes)
• How company culture and corporate aesthetics influence norms around professionalism
• How Krysta coaches and empowers women of color to embrace and accentuate their physical attributes in the workplace
• Natural hair politics in the workplace
• Developing and defining your personal style
• Timeless staples for your professional closet
• Common fashion faux pas that women should avoid
• Costs to hire an image consultant
• How Krysta is working with women through COVID-19

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