ABOUT THE PRESIDENT

Yasmin Anderson-Smith, MCRP, AICI is an award-winning, certified image consultant, and president of KYMS Image International, a consulting firm located in Bowie, Maryland, USA. KYMS specializes in personal image and brand management, etiquette, civility and youth empowerment programs.  Yasmin brings vision, creativity, passion, and elegance to her training, coaching and presentations. A graduate of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Howard University and Leadership Prince George’s, Yasmin is a former local government, management professional who successfully transitioned to entrepreneurship bringing her expertise in management, marketing, customer service, training and communication.    

Yasmin studied advanced image consulting and professional development training at the London Image Institute in Great Britain, under the direction of world-renowned, certified image master, Lynne Marks, AICI  CIM. A published author, Yasmin is a frequent guest presenter on image, etiquette, civility and personal branding in local and international settings. Her signature youth programs Every Girl Can™ and Your Image Matters- Sharpen it! ™ have been featured in local and international media. Yasmin is a co-author of Executive Image Power, published in June, 2009 by Power Dynamics Publishing. Yasmin's contribution to the book covers the importance of embracing civility as a solid foundation for building and enhancing one's image and brand. The book offers indispensable career-boosting advice for the 21^st century from top image experts.   

Serving as leader, trainer, program director, mentor, advocate and role model, Yasmin has worked for over twenty years with youth and adults in a variety of settings. Her leadership roles include serving as current chair of the AICI's global Civility Counts Project, past president of  the UWI Alumni Association (Washington, DC Chapter) and Vice President for Marketing and Communication of the Washington DC Metro Area Chapter of AICI. Yasmin is also a board member of the Institute for Caribbean Studies and a founding member of the Silver Spring Boys and Girls Club Parent Advisory Council. Yasmin is currently an adjunct faculty member at Montgomery College in Maryland where she teaches courses in civility, life skills and personal branding. Yasmin is the etiquette and civility editor of The Image Update, an AICI publication and has authored several articles on civility. In May 2009, Yasmin presented the seminar Embracing Civility – Expanding the Image Horizon at the annual AICI international conference in Irvine, California.   

In addition to AICI, Yasmin’s professional affiliations include the International Civility Trainers Consirtium, American Society for Training and Development, Greater Bowie Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Committee and Montgomery Women. Yasmin’s expertise in leadership, management, communication, training, team building and youth empowerment, underlies her global commitment to enrich, elevate, empower and inspire the lives of all her clients and embrace civility.