Insight, Wisdom & Woo

I am knocking wood as I write this; I have always been on time and given 100% for each seminar no matter how much I got paid, how many people were attending or where I was presenting. Once I'm hired, I'm committed! I'm knocking wood because I worry about air transportation issues, especially today with all the plane delays and cancellations.

My attendees learn a lot! They walk away with at least five things they can do either in their stores (for my retail seminars) or in their lives/homes/work for my motivational seminars. I consider all my seminars motivational as my goals are to educate, inspire and encourage people to make positive changes in their lives and environments. I love to teach and that comes out in my information packed custom seminars. If I discuss a theory, I immediately give a practical example and application to bring it to life.
I offer written handouts either printed and handed out on-site or emailed. I often raffle off my book "Feng Shui for Retailers." I make every effort to engage and entertain as well as educate.

I've given over 500 seminars and my reviews range from very good to excellent. I can count my bad reviews - there have been 9 over 25 years and I learned from each of them.
I've been told my voice is soothing - which is lovely as long as no one falls asleep. That has happened four times - always in Las Vegas. Twice when I gave an early morning session and twice right after lunch - always a low time for bio-rhythms.

Every seminar is always customized for my audience. I make sure to have photos and information that they can relate to so they can implement the ideas when they get back to their stores, homes or offices.

Three of my motivational seminars:
FENG SWEET SALES: Easy Feng Shui for Retailers (By the author of “Feng Shui for Retailers”) (1 hour)

Feng Shui is more than style; it’s a way of working with space and materials to achieve the best flow of energy in your store, club, office and home. The practice is over 7,000 years old and works with every type of retail space. This seminar focuses on how Feng Shui can be applied in a very contemporary manner to create a prosperous, successful, appealing and healthy environment. Based on the book “Feng Shui for Retailers” by Linda Cahan, the topic will be simplified so that its complicated concepts can be understood and applied easily and quickly in all your spaces. This is a fascinating topic that relates equally well to all the living and working environments in your life. You’ll leave this seminar feeling inspired to make positive changes in your store, your home and office.

Good Vibe Retail: Intuition, Wisdom, Woo & You

Short write up:
Linda Cahan shares some techniques to help you connect and listen to your gut intuition- your knowing. Linda’s presentation and discussion will open your mind to different ways of thinking, seeing, interacting and living that will influence your career and business in positive, successful ways.

Longer write up:
Have you ever been stuck between what you think you should do and what you most desire?
We live in many dimensions but our attention focuses on what we're thinking and feeling. This seminar will cover how to connect and listen to our gut intuition- our knowing.

Her experience in retail design spans 45 years and her psychic counseling, 40 years.
She has always combined the two in her design work for national and international Fortune 500 clients as well as hundreds of independent retailers.

• What is intuition and how does that differ from psychic knowledge?
• How each of us can have the confidence to listen to our gut feelings.
• How to separate what we think we know from what we desire and/or fear.
• When do you ask for a raise, promotion, or something important to you?
• Where is retail (or custom category) going for the foreseeable future?
• Q & A

THE HIGH FIVE OF SUCCESS: 5 THINGS YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW TO ENHANCE YOUR LIFE AND YOUR BUSINESS (1 hour )

This talk will give you practical and practically free ways to make all aspects of your life more successful. From how your store and office are set-up to the psychology of color, you’ll walk out of this seminar with a minimum of three things you’ll want to do immediately when you get back to your office, store or home – or, most likely all three. In one hour you will change how you think about your communications, your thought patterns, your home/office/retail layout, the colors you live with and what surrounds you in all your environments If you want to shake up your world in a positive, fascinating and fun way, start here and go back to your store refreshed and ready for the best life has to offer.

Linda Cahan is an internationally recognized expert in visual merchandising with over 35 years of marketplace experience. She helps stores look and feel better to sell more.
Linda's breadth of experience is in all segments of retail working with hundreds of independent retailers as well as major retail corporations as a Visual Merchandising and Store Design consultant. She was featured on MSNBC’s show “Your Business” in a show about the importance of window displays as well as interviewed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and NPR on retail design topics.
Linda’s strengths include all aspects of visual merchandising, display and design as well as training staff in each discipline through seminars, workshops, walk-throughs, hands-on sessions and manuals. She conducts visual audits/evaluations of all types of stores and malls to help retailers or mall managers improve their stores image and sales.
She has worked with all kinds of merchandise ­from high to moderate fashion, soft and hard lines including gifts, appliances, computers, auto parts, machinery and tools.
Linda gives seminars on a wide variety of retail topics nationally and internationally and has been a columnist for Gifts & Decorative Accessories Magazine for 17 years, Spa Retailer for 7 years, Nursery Retailer for 6 years and many columns for other B-to-B retail magazines. Linda is the author of: "100 Displays Under $100", "Feng Shui for Retailers" and "A Practical Guide to Visual Merchandising" She wrote the custom visual standards manuals for many companies including Saks Fifth Avenue, Lancôme Cosmetics, American Express, Singer, United Rentals, The Bowling Proprietors Association of America, Taubman malls, and three large retail companies in South America – Totto and Armi Studio in Colombia and RORI in Venezuela.
William Lorenzen, Assistant Visual Director at Saks Fifth Avenue during the late 90’s wrote the following in the front of the SFA Corporate Visual Merchandising Manual:
“Linda Cahan of Cahan & Company was hired to edit the entire work and add her objective viewpoint and ideas as a visual merchandiser but also as someone from the outside who had never worked for Saks Fifth Avenue. No other person who has never worked for SFA knows as much about visual merchandising as she and I doubt anyone ever will.”
Linda taught at The Art Institute of Portland for six years and at Parsons School of Design in NYC for twelve years. She lives in West Linn, OR and consults and lectures extensively around the world.
Along with her retail practice, Linda is also one of many "queens of woo." She has been an intuitive counselor for over 30 years, a Feng Shui practitioner and she also uses palmistry in her in-person consultations.