This business prof is dressed to impress
Mandeep Malik says being professionally dressed helps frame his thinking - and teaches his business students about more than just what's in their textbooks. The assistant professor of marketing's sense of style is the subject of the latest WhoWhatWear feature in the Hamilton Spectator.
Mandeep Malik says being professionally dressed helps frame his thinking – and teaches his business students about more than just what’s in their textbooks.
The assistant professor of marketing’s sense of style is the subject of the latest WhoWhatWear feature in the Hamilton Spectator.
Malik told the Spectator that, when it comes to what he wears, he tries to let his creative side out “while still maintaining an air of approachable professionalism.”
From the story:
Born and raised in Lucknow, India, Malik moved to Hamilton with his wife and children in 1999 from Australia, where they’d spent the last few years. He used to be a blue-suit-white-shirt-slick-tie guy, he says. Which was appropriate for his job as a marketing and technology consultant, back before he discovered academia.
But these days? He allows his creative side out while still maintaining an air of approachable professionalism. Accessories are a must, says Malik, who boasts a flock of turbans in different colour and patterns (although he prefers white these days), pocket squares and ties, and shoelaces in at least 10 different colours. Accessories that bring a bit of punch and personality to an outfit.
“Over the years, I guess with age, and once I settled into my role and realized some of the freedoms of academia, I let my own style flourish and I shifted away from formal suits to combinations of jackets and pocket squares with a splash of colour. Something that depicted to a student that (I’m) friendly, approachable …”
