STYLE & STRATEGY HUB

Most women in leadership can name the outfit they bought for their first serious job: the one that never quite looked right, the one they wore out of duty rather than choice. It usually gets filed away later as an early style mistake, when it was rarely that at all. It was the only material availabl...

Somewhere in your wardrobe there is a piece with the tags still on. Research suggests it has company: one survey found the average woman reports 21 per cent of her wardrobe as unwearable and has never removed the tags from 12 per cent of it. For a professional wardrobe of 150 to 200 pieces, that can...

There is a calculation that runs before an important room, and it does not appear in anyone's workload.

You are preparing for the board update, the client pitch or the keynote. You know the content, and you have known the content for weeks. What takes the extra bandwidth is everything sitting under...

You are the most prepared person in the room. You know the material, you have the track record, and you have been delivering at this level for years. And yet the opportunity keeps landing somewhere else.

Most women in leadership assume this is a skills problem. Something to fix, add, or prove. But ...

If you lead, you know the morning that goes sideways before it has begun. You stand at the wardrobe with fifteen minutes to spare and nothing feels right, even though it's full of good, capable pieces. There's usually one in there you bought, loved, wore once, and have passed over ever since.

For a...

You got dressed this morning and something wasn't right. The clothes were fine on the rack, fine in theory. But on this body, today, nothing landed the way it should. You put something back, tried something else, arrived at a compromise that will do. And you left the house already carrying a small a...