As business professionals, what we wear and how we look makes a big difference in how we’re perceived. It affects not just our credibility and our ability to influence our audience, it also affects our self image and confidence. Dr. Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard Business School professor, author of Blindspot and Project Implicit Bias, attests that we prefer people who are like us and whom we find attractive.
Researchers at Duke University also proved that humans equate truth with beauty, and from an early age—in both genders and across numerous cultures—attractive people are judged to be smarter, kinder, more honest and trustworthy… “what is beautiful is good,” and thus “what is good must be beautiful.”
Psychologists also believe that what we wear affects us psychologically: it alters our moods, stimulates our minds, enhances our self image, makes us feel more self confident and even “powerful.” Visual illusions created by certain patterns, cuts or colors change the appearance of our body and thus affect how others perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. For example, people who dress for the role they want, not what they have, are more likely to be appointed and get promoted quicker. The color red is related to power and prosperity.
How would you like to learn how to dress with intention to improve your credibility, feel good and attract positive life forces (Qi) at the same time? Come to this energetic presentation on how to use different colors based on Feng Shui principles to attract what you aspire to in life.
BIO:
Lillian Tsai is the founder and principal of TsaiComms LLC, a training, coaching and consulting company specializing in diversity and inclusion and cultural competence. After a 25-year career in global high tech marketing and communications, Lillian reinvented herself to channel her life long affinity and instincts for style and fashion, and the practice of Feng Shui.
In 2013, she received her certification in Feng Shui for fashion with Feng Shui Expert, Gwynne Warner of 10,000 Blessings Feng Shui and branded this new practice as "Feng Shui Your Wardrobe." Through one-on-one wardrobe consultations, shopping expeditions and workshops, her clients, male and female, learn how to combine their wardrobe (clothing, shoes and accessories) to dress with intentionality, to enhance, magnify and attract good Qi into their life.
This presentation has been delivered at the following companies and venues: Asian Employee Resource Group: Daimler Trucks North America, Portland, OR; Fidelity National Title, Portland, OR; Women’s Leadership Conference, Portland, OR; Wells Fargo Company (includes working with employee models on delivering a fashion show using this methodology), Portland, OR; International Association for Microsoft Channel Partners – Women in Technology (IAMCP-WIT), Bellevue, WA; Microsoft Asian Employees Network, Bellevue, WA; Women in Investments, Portland, OR; Park Place Realtors, Beaverton, OR; Portland Business Journal Women's Coalition, Portland, OR
