When you're your best at work, it feels great. But when you're not, it can feel like you're sitting on the sidelines, unsure of what to do next. Sue MacReynolds, an executive coach who works with the professionally stuck, wants to get you back in there and playing well.
You've heard "image is everything." Angie Michael says it's true. The president of Image Resource Group Inc. of Falls Church, Va., Michael is an image consultant who has helped people with everything from professional dress to business etiquette to presentation skills for more than 20 years.
Mary Ann Elliott doesn't believe there's anything she can't do. A wife at 14 and a mother at 15, she was selling encyclopedias part time when her husband was killed in a car crash in 1975. Knowing she needed full-time work to support herself and three children, Elliott applied for work at Motorola, which had just started hiring women. She was turned down three times.
