An author and executive coach, Valerie Sokolosky is a Certified Master Personal Brand Strategist who started Valerie & Company, a Dallas based international leadership development firm in 1981. Since then, she has become known as the expert in her field of strategic personal branding and professional presence. Valerie’s engaging style ignites the spark of enthusiasm in professionals to crea...
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  Is Your First Impression Your Best Impression?
by Valerie Sokolosky & Alice Adams - Jan, 2009
One one-thousand…two one-thousand…three one-thousand. Within the three seconds it took you to read the line above, you are evaluated, summed up and judged by someone you don’t know…even if it’s only at a glance. Like everything else in the 21st century, there is no longer “benefit of the doubt.” Life comes at us fast – and we’re appraised in a matter of seconds, visually and otherwise, from head to toe. In less time tha...
 
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