Member since February 2022
Kendra Porter is an award-winning image consultant, wardrobe stylist, and TEDx speaker who combines over 20 years of marketing experience through her multifaceted agency Honor You. She takes a 360° approach to personal and corporate branding -- fusing her vast experience across nonprofit, sports, entertainment, and fashion industries into a thriving business.
Kendra's creative vision shapes influential brands. She facilitates corporate trainings on style and presence; produces premium events for luxury retailers; teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), as well as dresses on-air talent for NBC Sports and the Olympics.
She earned her Master's in Hospitality and Tourism Management and a Bachelor’s in Promotional Marketing Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also an FIT graduate in Image Consulting; New York University in Public Relations, and SUNY Purchase in Non-Profit Board Development & Fundraising.
She has been featured by Yahoo!, Essence, CNN, Marie Claire, SHAPE, and Black Enterprise to name a few highlights.
Her motto: “HonorYourStyle. HONOR YOU!”
As a style architect, Kendra teaches executives, founders and experts how to align their personal and professional brands using fashion as a tool. Her work focuses on helping leaders strengthen their executive presence, professional image, and personal brand so they communicate credibility, confidence, and authority in those moments that matter most whether that’s presenting to stakeholders, speaking at conferences, appearing in the media, or leading important internal conversations. Her intention to help individuals show up as their most confident empowered self while learning how to communicate who they are and where they're going is her . Her motto is “HonorYourStyle. HONOR YOU!”
The Mirror Moment
I call it the "Mirror Moment" because I see the transformation in real time. My work comes together when clients change how they see themselves when they look in the mirror.
Women pause. Then they stare. Some start to smile slowly and before long, they're dancing. Giddy. Lit up from the inside. Not because I put them in something trendy or expensive, but because they finally see themselves the way they want to be seen. The shift happens when they realize it was never their body. It was never a lack of style. It was simply the absence of a strategy and now they have one.
Men do something different. They go quiet. They square their shoulders. They look at themselves the way you'd look into a camera to shoot a magazine cover; calm, composed, and completely certain. That silent confidence speaks volumes.
Both of those moments happen within an hour of stepping into a session with me.
What I do is more than styling. I help clients discover a style that was already theirs but didn't know how to execute. From brands and silhouettes that actually work for their body to an understanding of how to move fluidly across every level of dress, from casual to the boardroom. We go deep into color psychology, how the clothes you wear influence how others perceive you and how you experience yourself internally. Because presence isn't just about being seen — it's about feeling like yourself again.
That's the work. And I get to witness it, in real time, every single day.
My story begins with a body that arrived before the confidence to carry it.
By age 12, I had shot up to 5'6" and my mother put me in my first girdle. By 18, I stood 5'10" with thick thighs, a small waist, and had outgrown junior sizes long before I was a junior in high school.
I stopped fighting my body and started learning how to make clothes work for me; and discovered the profound psychological power clothing holds for the wearer and everyone around them. That discovery became a calling. And over the past 15 years, it became a career.
What began with helping plus-size women see themselves with clarity and confidence grew — client by client, breakthrough by breakthrough — into work that now serves television personalities, C-suite executives, founders, and subject-matter experts stepping onto public stages and into media moments where perception is everything.
The work is the same at its core: help people stop fighting themselves and start showing up fully, powerfully, and unmistakably themselves.
I know firsthand what it costs to walk into a room uncertain of how you're being seen. And I know the moment that changes because I see it happen every time a client looks in the mirror.
The Mirror Moment
I call it the "Mirror Moment" because I see the transformation in real time. My work comes together when clients change how they see themselves when they look in the mirror.
Women pause. Then they stare. Some start to smile slowly and before long, they're dancing. Giddy. Lit up from the inside. Not because I put them in something trendy or expensive, but because they finally see themselves the way they want to be seen. The shift happens when they realize it was never their body. It was never a lack of style. It was simply the absence of a strategy and now they have one.
Men do something different. They go quiet. They square their shoulders. They look at themselves the way you'd look into a camera to shoot a magazine cover; calm, composed, and completely certain. That silent confidence speaks volumes.
Both of those moments happen within an hour of stepping into a session with me.
What I do is more than styling. I help clients discover a style that was already theirs but didn't know how to execute. From brands and silhouettes that actually work for their body to an understanding of how to move fluidly across every level of dress, from casual to the boardroom. We go deep into color psychology, how the clothes you wear influence how others perceive you and how you experience yourself internally. Because presence isn't just about being seen — it's about feeling like yourself again.
That's the work. And I get to witness it, in real time, every single day.
My story begins with a body that arrived before the confidence to carry it.
By age 12, I had shot up to 5'6" and my mother put me in my first girdle. By 18, I stood 5'10" with thick thighs, a small waist, and had outgrown junior sizes long before I was a junior in high school.
I stopped fighting my body and started learning how to make clothes work for me; and discovered the profound psychological power clothing holds for the wearer and everyone around them. That discovery became a calling. And over the past 15 years, it became a career.
What began with helping plus-size women see themselves with clarity and confidence grew — client by client, breakthrough by breakthrough — into work that now serves television personalities, C-suite executives, founders, and subject-matter experts stepping onto public stages and into media moments where perception is everything.
The work is the same at its core: help people stop fighting themselves and start showing up fully, powerfully, and unmistakably themselves.
I know firsthand what it costs to walk into a room uncertain of how you're being seen. And I know the moment that changes because I see it happen every time a client looks in the mirror.