Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS

Current

• Owner, and President at Illustra Image Consulting

Past

• Divisional Vice President - General Manager at Federated Department Stores - Macys
• Assistant Store Manager at Federated Department Stores

Education

• Otterbein College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS’s Summary

Working as an executive for Federated Department Stores for over 20 years, I was in organizations all over training professional dress and within our internal structure I trained seminars such as team building, leadership skills, and DISC.

Work with an individual consultant with professional men and women to develop a more powerful and stylish image.

As a corporate image consultant and personal branding strategist, I provide corporate seminars on Professional Presence, What is Business Casual?, and Business and International Etiquette.

I also provide corporate workshops to better develop team rapport (DISC), developing long-term client relationships and leadership skills.

Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS’s Specialties:

Corporate organizations in need of enhancing their brand within a competitive industry.

Organizations that wish to invest in their people to gain more confidence, increase productivity, reduce turnover and create internal succession planning.

Individuals - Image coaching to elevate your presence through visual, verbal and non-verbal skills to create the best-version of yourself.

Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS’s Experience

• Owner, and President

  Illustra Image Consulting

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Professional Image Development Company

• Divisional Vice President - General Manager

  Federated Department Stores - Macys

  (Public Company; FD; Retail industry)

  June 1985 — August 2005 (20 years 3 months)

  • Accountable for achieving sales, customer service and financial objectives for a $41 million store.
  • Responsible for seasonal space allocation, store execution of merchandising guidelines and strategically planning for promotional events.
  • Achieved a sales growth of +8% over three years in assignment.
  • Responsible for Customer Service Survey results
  • Increased store profit +25% over LY.
  • Designed focused store strategy to drive sales to $1 Million, one of company’s top performances in Day After Thanksgiving Event..
  • Trained and developed 16 executives and 300 sales associates to achieve #3 ranking in 2004 in sales, service and credit results.
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• Assistant Store Manager

  Federated Department Stores

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FD; Retail industry)

  June 1979 — June 1985 (6 years 1 month)

Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS’s Education

• Otterbein College

  1975 — 1979

Additional Information

Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS’s Groups:

President of the Atlanta Chapter of the Association of Image Consultants International, Ambassador of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, Member of Leadership Gwinnett Class of 2008, and member of National Speakers Association

Member of the Gwinnett Auxillary of American Cancer Society
DECA Advisor for North Gwinnett High School Students

•    National Speakers Association (NSA)
•    Personal Branding Network
•    Finance & Accounting Professionals
•    Fashion Marketing & Digital Media Group (FMG): A Meeting Place for Fashion & Marketing Professionals
•    Otterbein College Alumni
•    Retail Industry Professionals Group
•    Human Resources Professionals Worldwide - www.HRProWorld.com
•    Linked 2 Leadership
•    SHRM-Atlanta
•    The Unofficial Gwinnett Chamber Member Group
•    Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM)
•    Woman 2 Woman Business
•    Lazarus Alumni
•    Macy's Alumni Group
•    Ladies Who Launch: Atlanta
•    Leadership Gwinnett Alumni
•    Need A Speaker / Be A Speaker
•    Macy's Central Connection
•    360 Reach Personal Brand Group
•    The Ashford Club

Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS’s Honors:

President of Atlanta Chapter of Association of Image Consultants International 2008 - Present, Master Trainer of the London Image Institute 2008 to Present, Graduate of the Leadership Gwinnett Class of 2008. Received the Member of the Year Award 2009 for the Atlanta Chapter of AICI.

Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS’s Contact Settings

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