Biography

  Teresa Lindsay, TFC President

Photo by: Ben Shum

Founding President of The Fashion Compass, Teresa Lindsay, began a career consulting on fashion in 1993. Today, her practical studies and experience working internationally have transpired into compact solutions for individuals seeking fashion advice, wardrobe make-overs, assistance shopping and career training.

Among other things, Teresa Lindsay's entrepreneurial spirit running two companies (The Fashion Compass and TLPIC marketing consulting) has assisted in developing many businesses and individuals from the inside out. More specifically, her philosophy to make effective, positive change in the lives of others delivers results that are practical, vibrant, lasting and personalized to each client and business.

Professional Profile

Teresa's natural flare for fashion and entrepreneurial spirit opened doors within circles of various fashion companies requesting her to coordinate fashion shoots and layouts for swimwear/aerobic clothing seasonal catalogues (hiring, employee training to improve product knowledge, and fashion merchandising for retail stores soon followed) and the opportunity to contribute an advertorial in the Business Examiner newspaper writing a column on business image and the effects of an individuals poor attention to detail on their employer as a whole. In 1994, Teresa began public speaking and offering training seminars on Professional and Personal Image Consulting. Various retailers and corporate 'human resource' managers commissioned presentations on Professional Attire and Attitude to improved their employee confidence and professional wardrobes. Teresa has assisted Television hosts, top executives, professionals, small business owners and women returning to the work force.

Always on the cuff of fashion projects, Teresa has been involved as a fashion stylist for Trends Magazine (1998-1999) overseeing the photo shoots and handling the fashion coordination and models' finishing touches, the BC Women's Show (Tradeshow) in 1998 she conceived and delivered the Show's first entirely live Before and After Make Over fundraising event for the Heart & Stroke Foundation, in 1999 Teresa was asked to help develop a successful new division of Eaton's (Department store) Personal Shopping Department in Victoria, BC which resulted in an increase of over three hundred clients in the first year along with creating and hosting live in-store makeovers coordinated with on-site hair stylists and make up artists, and within the same year Teresa and four other women decided to start a non-profit organization, which could improve the chances for financially challenged women in training programs to re-enter the work force by providing the appropriate attire for the job interview process. Today, Wear 2 Start has been the non-profit of choice for many organizations' fundraisers in Victoria, BC, and has received several awards from the community and the Victoria Foundation.

By 2000, Ms. Lindsay was head-hunted for managing an onboard shopping program on Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruise lines, where she delivered marketing campaigns, edited script, and co-produced hour-long onboard live presentations and television infomercials for shopping (250 retailers) in over twenty-five ports-of- call in the Caribbean, Mexico, Panama, the United States, Canada, and Alaska. For over two and half years, her experience as an account executive, generated revenue that grossed over twelve million dollars per year.

Over the years, she has been interviewed and featured various times by CFAX radio, CH Television, Shaw Television, and Time Colonist newspapers. Her articles and motivational advice has appeared in local magazine, catalogs, business newspapers, corporate policies, and women focused group programs.

Today, The Fashion Compass, designed by her unyielding instincts to connect people and accessible fashions, is the educational tool she dreamt of building for the public, career training for up-and-coming fashions consultants, and for the fabulous fashions physically in the stores - a resource for all.

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