Are You Losing Your Authority Through Your Style?

In early career stages, experimentation is tolerated.

In senior roles, ambiguity becomes expensive.

Not because women are judged unfairly.
(Though they are.)

But because leadership is read in seconds.

Posture.
Line.
Colour contrast.
Clarity of outline.

These are processed before language.

If your wardrobe creates mixed signals — softness where authority is needed, rigidity where warmth is required — the room recalibrates around you.

And you spend the first ten minutes recovering ground.