Advanced Course

5 Days / 40 hours

class-notesThe information, training, materials and coaching you receive from the Advanced Course will accelerate your business by at least 5 years. You will be able to reinvent yourself and your existing image consulting business or create an exciting new business!

The Course provides simple, effective and proven methodologies that enable you to teach seminars in image, Executive Presence, personal branding, non-verbal communication and updated business etiquette, thereby expanding your services to organizational clients.

We also work on your coaching skills, branding, sales, marketing, pricing structures and business development.

Our universally accepted methods and philosophies not only prepare you for the First Level of Certification examination with AICI but also certify you to use all our assigned reproducible formats, slides, scripts and presentation techniques which are full of rich material and original information.

* CEU units available if participant has achieved the First Level Certification (FLC) with AICI

WHAT THE COURSE INCLUDES

Our Supplies

ALL ADVANCED COURSES INCLUDE:

  • Power Point templates and scripts on Executive Presence topics, business appearanc, updated workplace etiquette and non-verbal communication skillsl.
  • Professional before and after makeover slides of real life clients, not models or actors.
  • Facilitation and Coaching competencies to work with individuals and groups.
  • Presentation practice.
  • Training modules for seminars, workshops and group tutorials.
  • Business development, branding and marketing customized for each participant
  • Post-course groups phone calls and ongoing mentoring and support.
  • Certification from London Image Institute.
  • Continuing Education Units available if candidates have passed their Certified Image Consultant (CIC) exam with AICI. London Image Institute is a recognized training institute by AICI.
  • The US Advanced Course Certificate of Completion is given by London Image Institute
  • The UK Advanced Course Certificate of Completion is given by London Image Institute
  • ImageAsia® Advanced Practitioner Course Certificate of Completion is given by London Image Institute
AICI CEU

* Qualified AICI members can receive 4.2 AICI CEU’s for completing this course.

* Please note that this course is accredited by the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI). Certification earned through London Image Institute upon completion of this course is entirely independent from AICI’s certification programs. If you wish to pursue AICI certification, please refer to AICI’s website. https://www.aici.org/

Training Locations

Atlanta: Training is conducted in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, GA which is approximately 30 minutes from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport by taxi or 1-hour by train. Click here for a map

London: Training is conducted just outside London in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK which is approximately 30 minutes from London’s Heathrow International Airport by taxi or 1-hour 15 minutes by train. Click here for a map

COURSE AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE

  • Day 1: Organization of Material into Seminar Modules. Designing a seminar agenda.
  • Day 2: Body Language. Presentation Skills. Non-Verbal Communication. Business Etiquette.
  • Day 3: Professional Presence Seminar and Self-Branding Process. Coaching modules for groups and individuals.
  • Day 4: Communication skills. Business Development.
  • Day 5: Personal Profile Preparation. Individual Presentations. Kick-Start Your Business. Evaluations.

 

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Advanced Course (5 days)
Agenda may vary by location and is subject to change
Training is similar in every location

Seminar Modules

This day takes everything you have learned in the Foundation week, which was geared to individual consultations and converts it into seminar modules. Each module is delivered with complete Power Point presentations, which you can use after the course. In addition you gain training tools and methods to work with every type of group from teens and social ladies’ clubs to high level corporate teams. You will learn how to develop your material and put it into a format that can be used to train and facilitate.

Participants will:

  • Identify simple, easy to teach seminar methodology and how to convey technical image concepts to a group
  • Discuss and analyze over 12 modules, seminar, and consulting topics

Included are seminar topics such as:

  • Wardrobe design for business and social needs
  • How to look slimmer and taller
  • Color psychology and its application for every occasion
  • Enhancing credibility and authority through business attire
  • Levels of Business Formal and Business Casual dress for every occasion
  • The art and science of accessories

Seminar Design

Using the modules from the day’s presentation, you will design a seminar for a specific group and discuss content, timing, flow and training methods for various audiences.

Body Language & Business Protocol

The course takes a change of direction as we explore the elements of body language. Like an actor, you will identify the components of movement, gestures and stance and how to coach your clients to enhance and improve their communication through presentation and neuro-linguistic techniques. You will learn not only how to improve your own and your clients’ speaking skills but also the methods to incorporate those into a business seminar.

Participants will:

  • Identify the role that the non-verbal message plays in communication
  • Identify the movement elements of time, space, flow, weight
  • Compare and contrast gestures and how they enhance the message in public speaking
  • Practice presentation skills, posture, walk and stance
  • Discuss and identify seminar modules for Business Protocol that include the following topics:
    • Managing the First Impression
    • Handling complaints
    • The significance of orientation and proximity in different situations
    • Use of personal space and territorial behavior
    • Comparing useful to non-productive work habits
  • Identify many other seminar topics, teaching methods, and teaching points for seminars and workshops

Communication Skills

Have you noticed that there are times when we are not at our best during the conversation? Words fail us, we become emotional or we say the wrong thing. This module addresses the challenges we all face when there is conflict or the stakes are high. You will discover the way in which you come across in the communication and how you can improve your skills in any situation, at any moment. Elements of this module can also be expanded and used as coaching and training modules for individuals and groups.

Participants will:

  • Practice communication techniques for conflict resolution, negotiation and problem solving

Personal Branding & Professional Presence Seminar

This unique process gives you the skills and techniques to develop the structures underlying a successful brand. The in-depth coaching and consulting process can be used with individual clients such as small business owners and entrepreneurial groups or high level corporate managers, sales teams and executives. You will learn techniques to deliver in such a way that the audience stays engaged.

Modules Include:

  • Visual Impact: Why and how to create a visual signature and a personal brand
  • Overcome challenges: How to overcome self-sabotaging habits
  • Core values and vision: The underpinning of your brand
  • Self Management: Time and Money management to support your vision and goals

Participants will:

  • Identify an in-depth process to shift the client’s paradigm to image, time, money management, vision, goals and personal limitations
  • Practice coaching models and communication skills
  • Identify teaching tools, teaching points, philosophies and methodologies

Business Development

This entire day is devoted to developing your own business. You learn marketing and sales techniques specific to an image consulting business, appropriate fees structures and how to identify your target markets. Business opportunities abound in the image field and our seasoned faculty gives you the benefit of their considerable experience. Find out what works best and how to bypass the pitfalls.

Participants will:

  • Identify ideas for marketing and social marketing for their image business
  • Identify target markets and appropriate pricing structures
  • Practice a sales conversation
  • Identify the business opportunities available
  • List goals and the specific strategies to launch or grow their business in the weeks after the course.

Goal-Setting & Action Plan

Develop goals for your business and determine the specific strategies you will use to grow your business in the four weeks after the course.

Participants will:

  • Set systematic goals for a three month time frame
  • Write out strategies that cover the following three months

Presentations

On the final day of the course you prepare and deliver presentations to the entire group, using the tools, coaching and facilitation techniques you have learned. You will receive constructive comments in several different areas of the presentation.

Participants will:

  • Prepare and facilitate an introduction to the seminar
  • Give a prepared presentation on image and appearance using visual aids and any other teaching tool of their choice. (Not Power Point)

The presentations will be critiqued in the following areas:

  • Facilitation techniques
  • Presentation style
  • Projection
  • Ability to engage an audience
  • Use of visual aids
  • Body language
  • Use of content
  • Introduction
  • Audience rapport and interaction

AFTER THE COURSE

As a graduate of the London Image Institute Foundation + Advanced Course, you get  FREE Membership in the exclusive London Image Institute Alumni Membership Program with FULL ACCESS to all content. This is only available to graduates of the Foundation + Advanced or Advanced Course and comes with some amazing benefits.

FREE ACCESS FOR LIFE!

This graduate support site is continually updated with fresh new slide presentations, photography, workbooks, and client & business forms for you to use in your image consulting practice. This type of on-going support cannot be found anywhere else.

Presentations *

  • Body Language, Non-Verbal Communication and Business Etiquette
  • Social Etiquette
  • Personal Branding and Professional Presence seminars
  • Formal Menswear
  • Men’s Evening Wear
  • Casual Menswear
  • Body Analysis
  • Accessories
  • Men’s Grooming
  • Wardrobe Design and Development

Photography

  • Premium slides (from the most current London Image Institute photo shoot)
  • Standard slides (from previous photo shoots)
  • Stock photography for background and website uses

Workbooks and Forms **

  • Men’s client workbook (available in US & UK spellings)
  • Women’s client workbook (available in US & UK spellings)
  • Client Forms
  • Business Forms

* Presentations available in Microsoft Powerpoint and Apple Keynote
** London Image Institute client workbooks may be downloaded and the cover customized to each student.

Take a look for yourself and see what you get with your membership. Just click below to take the tour!

PRIVATE COACHING OPPORTUNITY

LII_headshot_hathorn_1The second exclusive bonus afforded to you as a London Image Institute graduate is the opportunity to work as a private client with Sarah Hathorn, AICI CIM, CPBS of Hathorn Consulting Group and Illustra Business Coaching. Sarah is one of only a few Certified Image Masters in the world.

You may choose from one of her three private business coaching programs and receive a substantial 20% discount * just because you are a graduate of London Image Institute.

Working with Sarah right after you graduate from the London Image Institute and continuing to learn from an image master will help you catapult your image consulting business to the next level in record time. It will turn the 5-year head start you already have by graduating from the London image Institute into a 10-year head start on all of your competition!

Sarah’s private coaching will help you learn how to set higher fees without alienating clients, create packages that grab the attention of clients and sell, and how to carve out and establish your own unique and special niche within the industry.

* You must sign up for one of the business coaching programs within a specific time period after the course in order to receive the special pricing.

Read what some graduates who have coached with Sarah said…

“Despite the fact that I have nearly 20 years of business experience, working with Sarah made me recognize my greater potential for attracting clients and taking action. She has an incredible depth and breadth of knowledge and experience and is generous about sharing whatever tools and methods have worked for her. She also strives very hard to add value for her clients. She inspired and motivated me to believe in my own success, stretch my boundaries, and accomplish more with greater confidence. What more could you possibly ask of a mentor and coach? Sarah’s the best and I enthusiastically recommend her.”

Ale Marroquin, AICI CIP, Mexico City, Mexico

“I also learned a huge amount about marketing strategies, how to sell my products, how to bring new clients on board, and how to work with clients virtually and efficiently. Sarah showed me what to do to stay competitive, keep my clients returning for more, and what to do to gain ongoing referrals. She also helped me fill out my brand’s bandwidth with tips on blogging, writing articles, and leveraging social media to network and spread the word about my products and services. That included help from her business partner and husband Marc who advised me on my logo, business card, and website designs.

I also learned a huge amount Because of the dedication and support she showed me as my mentor and coach I will recommend Sarah any time. All thanks to Sarah and Marc!”

Morenike Tunde-Idowu, Toronto, Canada

Read more testimonials from people who have coached with Sarah

Sarah’s background & credentials

Sarah Hathorn is a Certified Image Master, the founding CEO of Hathorn Consulting Group, Illustra Business Coaching & Illustra Business School and creator of the Predictable Promotion™ system, began her image consulting career as an industry pioneer and innovator. Sarah is one of the first and only image and brand consultants in the world, for example, to enter the profession with a background as a senior level executive in the fashion industry.

She spent more than 25 years in that role at Macy’s, a Fortune 100 company, were she was responsible for developing leaders at all levels of the organization. Many of her protégés are now in top-level executive positions for Macy’s and other major corporations, so she has the hands-on experience and skills necessary to mentor any motivated high-achiever who wishes to expand her business, attract a more elite clientele, or even grow an independent entrepreneurial empire.

Sarah works primarily with Fortune 500 leaders but also offers her intensive mentoring and coaching programs to fellow image and brand professionals as a way to pursue her own personal passion while helping to empower those within her own business community and industry niche.

Credentials:

  • Achieved CIM (Certified Image Master) status in record time
  • Achieved CIP (Certified Image Professional) status in record time
  • Master Trainer of Image Consulting and Corporate Professional Development, London Image Institute & ImageAsia®
  • Certified Color Analyst, Sci-Art Company
  • Professional Keynote Speaker for the National Speakers Association
  • Certified Personal Brand Strategist, Reach
  • Certified 360º Reach Analyst, Reach
  • Certified Online Identity Strategist, Reach.
  • International Corporate Professional Development Program Leader
  • Former President of the Atlanta Chapter of Association of Image Consultants International
  • Guest Speaker at the Linkage Women In Leadership Global Summit October 2010
  • 2008-2009 Alumni, Leadership Gwinnett Program
  • 1997-1998 Graduate, Federated Leadership Institute
  • BA in Business Administration – Otterbein University

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