QUALIFICATIONS

Accomplishments:

Founder Sharon Glickman is an Image Consultant, Keynote Speaker, and Image Coach. She builds her individual and executive Image Consulting practice on the foundation of her vast experience launching and leading personal appearance-related retail and marketing operations.

Sharon started out in the image business as a young high-fashion runway model. This is where she learned the importance of image, fashion, makeup, wardrobe, and how to interact with the public.

From 1985 to 1989 she founded her own upscale women’s apparel boutique in Washington, D.C. and grew revenues 30 percent from the first to second year, 40 percent the third year and fifty percent the fourth year.

In 1989 she became a store manager of a Washington fur salon and increased sales 78 percent the first year. The next two years she went on to manage salon operations for six area stores and the division she managed was number one for sales volume out of 100 stores nationwide.

As store manager of Houston’s upscale Lillie Rubin in 1997, she turned store sales around within five months and elevated the store’s ranking from 25th to 3rd of 40 retail stores nationwide.

When she began presenting home trunk shows of the prestigious Worth Collection women’s clothing line, Sharon achieved millennium sales status – selling over $1 million in clothing – within her first year and repeated that her second year.

Most recently she was asked to serve as the startup area sales manager for a new executive women’s trunk clothing line, Nina McLemore, and this new concept company is now in its third year.

Sharon’s colorful background also includes having been: marketing director for a cosmetic dermatology practice; a counselor at an adolescent substance abuse crisis center; marketing assistant to the leader of a scrap recycling company; manager of a Valentino boutique; a high-fashion runway model and producer of fashion shows for various stores, clothing lines and charities.

Her clients over the years having included high-profile public figures such as a former First Lady, a network news anchor and the president of the Motion Picture Industry of America.

Presently serving on the Guild Board of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Sharon is involved in putting together a retail gift shop that will open in 2006. She is also a member of the Board of Trade in Washington and involved in fundraising for the American Cancer Society. She has worked on many political campaigns and is a past member of The Fashion Group.

On the personal level, Sharon is the mother of one daughter, Toni, and the grandmother of Gigi, who Sharon says is the love of her life. Sharon has traveled extensively and has braved a major illness.

Personal Appearance Industry Experience:

• Startup Area Sales Manager for Nina McLemore
• Marketing Representative for the Center for Image Enhancement
• Sales Representative for Worth Collection
• Store Manager of Lillie Rubin, Houston
• Manager of The Fur Vault, Washington, D.C.
• District Manager of the fur salons at Woodward and Lothrop and Wanamakers department stores, Washington, D.C.
• Founder and General Manager of Boutique Sharon, Washington, D.C.
• Manager of Valentino boutique, Houston

Education:

Sharon Glickman is a certified image consultant who has been trained by both the London Institute and by Gloria Starr of Global Success Strategies. In fact, when Sharon was taking Gloria's course in Color Analysis, Gloria commented, "You are the first person I've trained that is going to give me competition." Sharon is also a member of the Association of Image Consultants International, the largest image consulting organization in the world, and is also a certified trainer in the DISC communications style assessment tool