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Sarah Hatho

AICI CIP, CPBS

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Executive Coach & Career Acceleration Expert

Sarah Hatho

Sarah Hatho Quick Facts

Main Areas
Executive Coaching, Brand Strategy, Leadership Skills
Career Focus
Speaker, Executive Coach, Certified Image Consultant; Corporate and personal brand strategist, trainer, and author
Affiliation
National Speaker Association, American Society for Training & Development, Association of Image Consultants International, Reach Branding

Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIP, CPBS is an internationally distinguished leadership development mentor, executive presence coach, image and branding consultant, public speaker and presenter, and the founding CEO of her own successful company, Illustra Consulting.

A career acceleration expert, she created the innovative Predictable Promotion System™, a 10-step proprietary process she uses to coach managers aspiring to be directors, directors seeking vice presidential promotions, and VP’s eager to ascend to the C-suite.

In response to the devastating personal experience of being turned down for a prized promotion early in her career, Sarah developed her own system for enhancing her marketable value and executive leadership presence. She designed a step-by-step process for quickly acquiring practical value-adding performance skills, and then developed efficient strategies to gain the positive recognition of influential decision makers. Meanwhile she creatively enhanced a variety of priceless intangible qualities that companies specifically look for in high potentials ready to rise to the top of the succession planning list.

The rest is history. Eighteen months after being passed over, Sarah had achieved multiple promotions and earned several salary increases and lucrative incentive packages – plus the extraordinary leadership responsibility of a Fortune 100 senior executive.

But Sarah’s unique and innovative system didn’t just help her land her dream job. It continued to empower her with exponential career growth and the ability to successfully reinvent herself with greater value, despite a corporate climate of tumultuous and frightening layoffs, acquisitions, multiple mergers, and constant downsizing initiatives.

A few years ago Sarah left her prestigious Fortune 100 position to follow what she considers her true professional calling and personal passion. She launched her own consulting company which now offers the Predictable Promotion System™ through intensive one-on-one executive coaching of private clients, developmental workshops for large corporations, and various customized consulting programs and interactive speaking engagements.

For the past 30 years Sarah has used her vision and insight to help promote leaders at all levels, and many of her clients and former protégés now occupy the highest positions withi Fortune 500 companies. Her client list is a virtual “Who’s Who” of elite companies and top executives.

Credentials & Accomplishments

Sarah Hatho Books

Image Power

http://www.illustraconsulting.com/store

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Zigzag Your Way to the Top in 2011

In response to the growing number of recent corporate downsizings many large companies have adopted an organizational structure that involves fewer layers and levels of corporate hierarchy than we saw during earlier decades. In order to adapt to these new developments it is important for corporate leaders to know how to leverage their careers in ways that embrace the changes without sacrificing the tangible rewards of success.

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5 Tips for Managing Your Boss and Selling Your Ideas Upward

There is one problem we’ve all encountered that can be simultaneously frustrating and disappointing. As an innovative leader and team player you present a great idea to your boss. But the boss doesn’t accept the idea or promote it upward through the organizational chain of command. Instead he or she is just indifferent, believes it isn’t doable or realistic, and says “No.” To help you succeed at overcoming this kind of resistance here are five helpful tips and guidelines.

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Be a Dream Team Talent Scout

Owners of professional sports franchises invest tens of millions of dollars to draft the top players, and their talent scouts start following athletes as early as junior high school. They have to invest with a forward outlook, and that means they have to constantly be on lookout for talent no matter when it appears or where they find it. If you want to build your own corporate dream team you also have to become a fulltime talent scout. Keep your radar on all the time, because you never know where you might discover your next big value-adding player or diamond-in-the-rough potential asset.

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The Top 5 Reasons Why Your Presence is Important for Greater Career Advancement

Imagine this scenario: An opening is becoming available next month for a higher-level position in your organization. You start daydreaming about how it would feel to be offered the job – which would definitely be a promotion for you and is comfortably within your area of expertise. But then that little voice in your head says, “Maybe I’m not as qualified for the position as some of the other people around here. Perhaps my professional image isn’t quite top-notch. Even though I work hard every day, I think my image is holding me back.”

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3 Ways to Align the Universe Behind Your Career Success

You can call it intuition, quantum physics, faith, or just a honed and polished ability to listen to your gut as you navigate the fiercely competitive world of business. But whatever name you give it or however you prefer to explain, the fact is that sometimes there are definite signs that we are either veering off track or heading in the right direction.

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The Secret to Career Success: Negate the Negative

Perhaps the biggest secret to career success – whether you are an entrepreneur or high potential leader working for a major corporation – is to learn how to neutralize or negate negativity. Negative energy comes in two forms, internal and exte al. To help insulate yourself from the exte al kind, surround yourself with positive people who are focused on performance and success, not failure. Avoid the naysayers and cynics in favor of those who interpret adversity as a challenging opportunity to prove their worth.

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Success Coaching: Stop Constructing Your Own Glass Ceiling

This month in the Wall Street journal there was an intriguing and somewhat unsettling article, “Coaching Urged for Women.” The piece revealed that according to a new McKinsey & Company report “inadequate career development holds back female executives.” The report examined the kinds of career advancement barriers that women executives who hold management positions in large organizations now face.

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Finding the Courage Within to Advance Your Life

In these uncertain times many otherwise powerful professionals are becoming paralyzed by fears and insecurities. They want to overcome the challenges to their executive presence, their leadership brand, their professional image, and the advancement of their career. But to get to where they want to be requires a level of courage that they haven’t yet accessed. Once you discover that well of strength inside yourself, however, you can accomplish virtually anything, regardless of how daunting the obstacles may seem. Here are three tips to help you gain newfound courage:

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Target Your Team with Words That Work

I recently had a conversation with a construction engineer about how knowledge of physics enables people to move massive, heavy objects while exerting very little effort. By using centrifugal force, gravity, and the science of simple fulcrums and natural leverage, for example, two people can move a block of granite that weighs hundreds of pounds.

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Brand Essentials: Every Leader’s Image-Critical Messaging Tools

Whenever I’m working in a corporate environment and attending a networking event or meeting with my potential “leadership tribe,” it amazes me that the business tools of executive leaders look worn, outdated or overly casual. These are strategic business meetings where everyone present hopes to make vital connections, build rapport, and be perceived as a consummate professional. That means that the brand and image essentials need to communicate strong, silent, convincing messages.

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Unleash Your Leadership Presence for a Value-Added Career

Whether you are a corporate leader or a high achieving entrepreneur, everyone today is scrambling to upgrade their professional presence to stand above the competition. We all have good intentions in that regard, but many times we are not really focused on our presence but are instead fixated on the next bright, shiny object.

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Stop Selling Failure by Talking Yourself Out of Success

One of the obstacles I face with my professional clients is their inability to recognize and overcome sabotaging self-talk. Through coaching them I realize how personal image can be, and how easy it is to be overly critical of ourselves –when we really need to be our own biggest fans.

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Websites & resources

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Illustra Consulting

Illustra Consulting is an Atlanta-based firm serving Fortune 500 companies and individual clients throughout the corporate and entrepreneurial world. The primary focus of Illustra Consulting is to coach and train the proprietary Predictable Promotion System™, a prove 10-step process.

March 1, 2011

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Illustra Image Consulting

Illustra Image Consulting is a professional image development firm specializing in innovative workshops for large organizations seeking to enhance their corporate brand. We assist organizations & individuals with private executive coaching packages to prepare key leaders to develop a vison and take action.

June 23, 2010

Contacting Sarah Hatho

1-800-267-3245 Phone & Fax

sarah@illustraconsulting.com

Website: http://www.illustraconsulting.com