Our 3 Day Short Certification Course will teach you the following:

• Day 1: Color Analysis – Learn the theory behind color, how to evaluate individuals based on their personal coloring, and how to select the appropriate colors for an individual
• Day 2: Personal Styling – Learn the theory behind the different types of fashion styles, how to determine an individual’s fashion style, and how to select the appropriate clothing based on an individual’s fashion style
• Day 3: Personal Shopping – Learn the ins and outs of efficiently and effectively personal shopping for yourself and others, how to work with men and women, and how to work with stores from start to finish

For more detailed information about our Dubai Personal Stylist & Personal Shopper training program or to register, please click here.

About the Sterling Style Academy

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!  Like us or become our BFF on Facebook.

Our new website clearly outlines our six different image consultant, personal styling, and personal shopping training programs throughout the world:

• 2.5 Week Certification Programs in Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Dubai
• The World Traveler Program in Sydney, Hong Kong, London, and New York
• 4 Week Certification Programs in London and New York
• Online Certification Program
• Corporate Image Certification Program in Las Vegas and Mumbai
• The Apprentice Program

Our new website also features our business development teleclass, and short ecourses in wardrobe consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling.  Learn how you too can become a successful image consultant by reading the book “Success Simplified.”  And of course our new website also showcases our alumnae because we understand that the success of the Sterling Style Academy is in large attributed to the top notch caliber of graduates we produce worldwide.

Thank you for taking the time to review our website and we certainly hope to see you at one of our future training programs or meet your training needs through our online certification program or short ecourses.

About the Sterling Style Academy

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!  Like us or become our friend on Facebook.

The Sterling Style Academy is so excited about the launch of our new website, we couldn’t contain the news from you any longer and are giving you a sneak peak of what’s going to launch on February 7th, 2011.

Click here to take a peak and you’ll find all the information you need to know about the image consulting, personal styling, and personal shopping industry, as well as how to become a successful and credible consultant.  Please keep in mind that we are still finalizing certain aspects of the site, however we hope this provides you with a more concise and comprehesive look at the Sterling Style Academy.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our future training programs.

About the Sterling Style Academy 

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!

The Sterling Style Academy regards the Morgan’s Hotel on Madison Avenue our home when we train aspiring personal shoppers and personal stylists to master the elements and principles of image, fashion and style.  You’ll learn how to select the appropriate colors, silhouettes, textures and patterns to meet the style needs of your clients in the contemporary setting of the Morgans Hotel with fellow aspiring personal shoppers and personal stylists from around the globe.

Once you’ve mastered the science behind fashion and style, you will experience the practical application of conducting personal style evaluations, wardrobe clustering, personal shopping sessions, and working hands-on with a variety of internationally recognized fashion collections.   After you’ve practiced your newly mastered styling skills on other members of the class, the Sterling Style Academy brings in actual personal shopping clients so students may work directly with real people in need of real wardrobe and image solutions.  The hands on, industry training we offer at the Sterling Style Academy provides you with the best real world experience prior to providing real solutions for real people.

To be a well-rounded personal stylist it is important to have some product knowledge of skin care and make up.  Therefore the Sterling Style Academy partners with Dior Make Up providing you with a Master Class in make up application conducted by Dior Make Up Artists.  Our students are also trained to conduct wardrobe and closet consultations by working with an actual designer wardrobe in need of professional assistance so you can master closet organization principles and the secrets to creating a well-functioning wardrobe for which your personal styling clients will pay top dollar.  To conclude the class, students learn how to create wardrobe lookbooks tailored to each client as an additional service you may offer in your personal styling and personal shopping service arsenal.

The Sterling Style Academy trains fashion enthusiasts to become certified personal stylists 3 times a year in New York.  Each training session offers different benefits allowing you to select the best personal stylist and personal shopper training option for you.

1) The 2.5 Week Personal Shopper Certification Course: April 4 – 20, 2011.  Registration closes on February 21.  Tuition $7497USD.

2) The 4 Week Personal Shopper Certification Course: August 1 – 26, 2011.  Registration closes on June 20.  Tuition $8997USD. 

3) The World Traveler Program (London | New York):

• Session I in London, 4 – 14 July, 2011.  Registration closes on May 23.  Tuition $6247 USD
• Session II in New York, July 18-22, 2011.  Registration closes on May 23. Tuition $4447 USD

CLICK HERE to see what our New York graduates have to say about us and experience first-hand what it’s like to be part of the Sterling Style Academy. 

At the Sterling Style Academy, we offer all of these hands on personal shopper training experiences, plus our unparalleled training workbooks and DVDs that are yours to keep with your investment in one of our personal stylist and personal shopper training courses.  Along with all of these training tools, we still consider the strongest part of your personal style and personal shopper training at the Sterling Style Academy to be the diverse group of students you’ll train with from around the globe.  Each personal shopper training course is attended by students of all ages, ethnicities, and professional backgrounds.  Our Certified Personal Shopper Graduates have gone on to become personal style consultant pioneers in their own countries including Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Turkey, Trinidad, Nigeria, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, India, Canada, and more.  We’ve trained over 200 hundred students from more than 20 countries to launch their own personal shopping business and we look forward to helping you launch the fashion career of your dreams in 2011!

Contact the Sterling Style Academy directly to learn which training program or short personal stylist eCourse is right for your career goals and will best suit your needs.

Jump start your image consulting business with our Sales, Marketing and Business Brand Identity Launch Kit. Many students frequently come to the first day of image consultant training asking how will I get clients and how do I market myself.  This resource will help you position yourself as an expert which will result in attracting clients.  If you are serious about starting an image consulting business and would like would like to build the foundation for growing a sustainable business, we recommend taking advantage of the Sales, Marketing and Business Brand Identity Launch Kit Special Offer to incoming students at the introductory investment of US$597 plus shipping and handling.

About the Sterling Style Academy

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!  Like us or become our friend on Facebook.

London offers year round internationally recognised shopping entertainment, celebrity fashion culture, and up market luxury living. When you enroll in the Sterling Style Academy’s latest 4 week image consultancy training programme in London from 30 May, 2011 – 24 June, 2011, you will experience it all, first hand with other personal shopping students from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, and Africa.  Gain your competitive business edge by honing your international fashion eye and talents for styling in London’s most glamorous department stores and shopping destinations, including Harrod’s, Selfridges, Oxford Street and Bond Street.  You will be positioned for success with an unparalleled  global styling perspective when you graduate as a Certified Image Consultant and Personal Shopper from the Sterling Style Academy.

Our latest 4 week image consultancy training programme is set to take place in the trendy and luxurious setting of the Sanderson Hotel.  Students will master the elements and principles of image, fashion and style in the backdrop of this 5 star luxury hotel that is a local favorite of international celebrities. June is the best time to shop the summer sales in London, which truly makes our personal style coaching education a valuable shopping experience.  Students will practice their newly mastered skills in personal shopping and wardrobe development in the real shopping settings of Harrod’s and Selfridges department stores and will potentially attend a Dior Master Class in makeup application conducted by professional make up artists.

Sterling Style Academy students not only learn the benefits of how to become a London image consultant and personal shopper, but also benefit from our globally diversified curriculum that brings New York fashion to the London high street. Your education in personal style coaching and personal shopping at the Sterling Style Academy in London will truly be a global experience, not just for the glamorous fashion location, but also due to our internationally diversified student body.   In 2010 alone, we trained Certified Personal Shoppers from the United States, Canada, Spain, Peru, Russia, Norway, Nigeria, Japan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, the Philippines, India, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Venezuela, Suriname, Honduras, Italy, and Chile. By training with fashion students from different cultures, you will establish an international professional network and will refine your global fashion and styling talents.   This global style awareness makes your personal shopper services that much more valuable to international traveling clients and corporate executives who conduct multi-national business.   Join the exclusive group of Sterling Style Academy Alumni who benefit from a truly international perspective of fashion and style and become international personal stylists and personal shoppers.

American personal shopping students are encouraged to enroll in the London 4 Week Image Consultancy Training Programme to take advantage of the relatively strong dollar to British pound currency exchange.  Considering a weak dollar and pound sterling, now is also an opportune time for citizens of the European Union to register for the Sterling Style Academy London.  As student tuition is factored in US dollars, students from around the world can take advantage of this savings, and, as always, tuition investment is both tax deductible and tax-free (no additional V.A.T., which incidentally increases from 17% in 2010 to 20% in 2011).

Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to request a course prospectus and to learn which of our personal shopping training courses and at-home training products are right for your career objectives.  Visit our Sterling Style Academy Facebook Fan Page to read about Sterling Style Academy alumni current events and visit our Sterling Style Academy Flickr Page to learn more about the hands-on, in class personal styling training experience.  Meet your training director, Michelle T. Sterling and learn more about the Sterling Style Academy Advantage on our YouTube Page, Sterling Style Academy TV.

Registration for the Sterling Style Academy’s London 4 Week Image Consultancy Training Programme closes on 18 April, 2011 and takes place from 30 May, 2011 through 24 June 2011.  Tax deductible and tax free tuition is USD$9947 for the entire course or USD$2497 per week.  To read more about the London 4 Week Image Consultancy Training Programme Curriculum and offerings, please click here.

About the Sterling Style Academy

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!  Like us or become our friend on Facebook.

The 4 Week Certification Programme is a fully comprehensive programme designed to meet the training needs of international fashion connoisseurs and individuals who prefer to cultivate their image and styling skills through extensive case study development.

• Introduction to style – How do we define and refine it?
• How to analyse fashion, incorporate trends, and develop style
• The elements and principles of design as it pertains to style
• How to assess facial features and body types to create suitable wardrobes for your clients
• How to incorporate these elements into analysing an individual’s personal style and colouring
• How to develop a look specific to your client’s personal style and colouring
• The elements and importance of wardrobe evaluation
• The principles behind closet organization and clothing care
• A day in the life of an image consultant
• Effective shopping strategies and protocol
• How to determine your target market and develop your marketing plan
• How to conduct personal style and closet evaluations
• The essential elements of effective communication skills and its non-verbal impact
• How to utilise these elements to improve your corporate presentation and interpersonal communication skills
• How to develop your client’s image to improve their overall presence

Click here for future class schedule and training investment structures.

Certification only granted upon completion of entire programme
Program Schedule: Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Clinic: Friday, TBA with assignments to be completed in the evenings.

For more information, please contact us to receive a course prospectus.

Click here to make your investment today or click here to convert the investment into your currency.

Upon receipt of your registration form, we will send you a Welcome Package outlining the logistics of the training program, suggestions on where to stay, a detailed agenda, and much more. Your investment does not include air fare, lodging, transportation, personal expenses, school supplies or meals. Students should budget an additional USD $1550 per month.

Beginning in 2011, the Sterling Style Academy introduces the 4 week image consultancy training programme in London, taking place 30 May – 24 June, 2011. Due to popular demand for the in-depth 4 week personal stylist and personal shopper training programme in Europe, the Sterling Style Academy has expanded upon its multi-national personal stylist and personal shopper training course options.  Until 2011, the 4 week comprehensive personal style coaching training programme was only offered once per year each August in New York.  As a result of increased enrollment of students from the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, India, Hong Kong and other European Union, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries, the Sterling Style Academy now offers a second 4 week personal stylist and personal shopper training programme during the month of June in the global fashion capital of London.

Have you dreamed of earning an income through personal style coaching and personal shopping?  Train to become a top-notch image consultant this June 2011  in London, in the midst of world class shopping. Your new career as a personal shopper or personal style coach starts with hands on training on London’s Oxford Street, the largest shopping destination in all of Europe, and Bond Street.  Train to become a personal stylist while learning the principles of colour and design as they relate to the body at Selfridges, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and other world famous London department stores.  Master the skills of personal styling and personal shopping on Sloane Street in Knightsbridge, home to up market luxury shopping and living.

Fashionable men and women from around the world train at the Sterling Style Academy to launch their dream career as a top notch image consultant, personal style coach, and personal shopper.  Students enroll in our image consultancy training program to gain a global edge on fashion and shopping and to train with students from countries and cities including: London, UK, Moscow, Russia, Paris, France, Rome, Milan, Italy, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Greece,  Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, India, Iran, Hong Kong, and China.

As shoppers from the Middle East, India, and the European Union often go to London during the summer months to vacation and shop, June is the perfect time to invest in image consultancy and personal style coaching training with a global perspective from the Sterling Style Academy.

Registration for the 4 Week Image Consultancy Training Programme in London closes 18 April, 2011. The investment for this in-depth, hands on, up market personal stylist and personal shopper training is USD$9947, which is just USD$2497 per week.

The Benefits of the Sterling Style Academy are the following:

1. Commitment to Excellence. We consistently update our course curriculum so that our students receive the most current and timely style industry information. Wardrobe case studies are shaped by the hippest celebrities and designer style, and our coaching of corporate communication and appropriate wardrobe is geared toward persevering through economic downturns.

2. Faculty Reputation. Your instructors have 50 years of combined industry experience and the Sterling Style Academy’s Founder is a Wellesley Alumnae, member of the National Organization of Professional Women, AICI, ASTD and other professional organizations committed to excellence. You will train from experts who are recognized as being in the top 2 percentile in the image consulting industry.

3. Global Diversified Student Body and Internationally Recognized Student Alumni. Sterling Style Academy Certified Image Consultants span the globe from over 20 different countries from every continent. The leading image consultant in Japan, Yuuri Takano, residing in Tokyo, graduated from the Sterling Style Academy New York in 2005 and re-enrolled with her assistant in 2008. She has since pioneered the image consultant industry in her country, becoming a media darling, author and premier image consultant in Japan and to the Japanese in America.

4. Every dollar of your Sterling Style Academy training investment is tax deductible. As a business owner, your industry education becomes a valuable tax deduction and may be written off as a business expense.

About the Sterling Style Academy

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!  Like us or become our friend on Facebook.

Michelle T. Sterling, founder of the Sterling Style Academy and Global Image Group, has offered her unique, global perspective of personal styling to an elite group of more than 350 personal shopping students from 40 different countries.  Ms. Sterling achieved her AICI Image Consultant Certification in 2003 (the first year it was offered) after working with executive and affluent personal shopping clients since 2000.   In 2000, she founded the Global Image Group, which today has a team of a dozen image consultants working with clients in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, South America, and Japan.

Ms. Sterling founded the Sterling Style Academy in 2002, and has developed the program into an internationally recognized Personal Styling and Personal Shopping Training Program that takes place in eight cities globally, including New York, Miami, San Francisco, Las Vegas, London, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Dubai.  While Ms. Sterling’s main focus is now her students, she continues to work with executives and personal shopping clients in each city during her travels.

Always looking to further develop the value of the Sterling Style Academy to reach a broad range of aspiring personal shoppers and stylists, Ms. Sterling introduced the Sterling Style Academy’s Online Training Program in 2005 where students can enroll per module and study at home on their own schedule to train to become personal stylists.  Online modules are formatted in such a way that it somewhat emulates the in-class training courses, giving at home students personal stylist training that is virtually on par with in-class courses.

And in 2010, Ms. Sterling wrote and published three new at home personal shopping and personal styling training workbooks with DVDs to further diversify the training options available to aspiring personal stylists.  Focused on offering the services of Wardrobe Consultations and Closet Evaluations, Personal Shopping Sessions, and creating Client Wardrobe Lookbooks, students can now purchase service-specific training tools through the Sterling Style Academy Boutique.  Taking at home training another step further, Ms. Sterling also released the Sales, Marketing and Brand Identity Launch Kit to give new personal shoppers a business and marketing plan to grow their businesses and increase clientele through proven industry marketing strategies.

All of this from a women who started working in retail at age 16. Graduates worldwide can attest to the level of professional training they received from Ms. Sterling at the Sterling Style Academy.  If you’d like to learn more about enrolling into the Sterling Style Academy or purchasing any of the at home learning tools and resources, please call the Sterling Style Academy at +1.888.866.8996 or email the Sterling Style Academy.

About the Sterling Style Academy 

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!  Like us or become our friend on Facebook.

Many aspiring personal shoppers who contact the Sterling Style Academy ask, “What is the benefit of training in two different cities?” And the answers are numerous.  The more world traveling experience a new personal stylist or personal shopper has, the more culturally well-rounded this personal shopper’s skills are.  Being able to speak to the preferences of different clients from all parts of the globe makes a personal stylist’s services that much more marketable to a variety of clients in a variety of locations.

Personal shoppers with this caliber of personal style training are able to charge a higher hourly or daily rate than personal shoppers without world traveling experience.  Further diversifying your awareness and experience working with different cultures, all while incorporating this experience into a cohesive look and style representative of your client will make your services that much more valuable to world traveling professionals and socialites.

Consider the cultural aspects of training in globally renowned cities such as Sydney and Hong Kong.  While Asian and Australian cultures are quite different in values, training in both markets is a great opportunity to globally diversify your personal styling skill set and to learn how to work with clients of different values, backgrounds, and life or career ambitions.

Australia represents western-influenced values and cultural similarities to markets like the United Kingdom and the United States, while in proximity to Southeast Asia and Indonesia.   Sydney is the place to build a solid foundation regarding the technical aspects of style. Australians are generally interested in learning about the right colors that suit them and how to dress according to their body type as well as personal style.  It’s the ideal place to learn the principles of design as they relate to personal styling.

Australia is a booming market for the personal shopping industry as many people are interested in hiring image consultants.  Both British and Australian prospective clients value entertainment and invest more on housing and real estate, and Australians are more prone to purchasing luxury items.  Training in a market with this type of high demand is a great experience as you are able to see all the aspects of the industry and the various services you can offer.  The Australian dollar is also strong against the US dollar, making Sydney a valuable location to invest in personal stylist training.

Hong Kong is the ideal place to learn how to become a personal shopper in Asia.  With so many luxury and mid-market stores at your disposal and high rise shopping centers throughout the city, Hong Kong offers the perfect opportunity to master the services offered by a personal shopper.  Hong Kong’s culture is conducive for this type of profession, as Asians in general value brand names at a good value, allowing you the opportunity to position your expertise to be of value to busy executives and affluent shoppers.

In addition to offering world class shopping opportunities, Hong Kong, like other major cities including Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok and Jakarta,  is an epicenter of international business.  Training in a city where corporate values and executive presence dominate the wardrobe values of so many working professionals, will provide personal stylists with a competitive edge in the world of corporate image consulting.

Training in multiple business and fashion capitals gives personal shoppers a competitive edge that just cannot be learned by studying at home or online.  Personal stylists aspiring to work with globe traveling professionals and affluent clients must be world travelers themselves.  Register for the Sterling Style Academy’s World Traveler(TM) Program taking place in Sydney and Hong Kong beginning March 9, 2011.  Students must enroll by January 17, 2011, in order to train with other personal shoppers from around the world in Sydney and Hong Kong.

About the Sterling Style Academy 

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!

Each of the Sterling Style Academy Certified Personal Shoppers featured are not only pioneers in their industry but they are all self-motivated, go-getters. They have a true passion to become successful image consultants and personal shoppers and they implemented their education into a viable career in different parts of the world.  Not only do they jet set to work with clients but they are also driven, motivated, and take advantage of opportunities when they appear.  These are the true characteristics of successful and dynamic entrepreneurs and we are very proud of them for achieving their goals.  Some of our graduates were as young as 23 when they started, proving age does not make a difference in professional image consulting, personal styling and personal shopping.

Read some of the Sterling Style Academy’s Graduate Success Profiles:

Yuuri Takano (Japan) – Graduate of New York 4 Week Course – August 2005, is a 2 time author, trainer, consultant, and public speaker.

• Jeunesse Ali and Amy Inglefield (Trinidad) – Graduates of Miami 2.5 Week Course – Janaury 2008, are co-founders of TimeSquared, LTD. a leading personal styling business pioneering the industry in Trinidad and Tobago.

“Hi Michelle! So great to hear from you! Business is great!
No plans to be (in Miami again) as yet but I’m always doing some last minute jet setting so I’ll be sure to let you know.  Hope all is well. – Amy Inglefield”

• Tania Siddiqi (Dubai and Pakistan) – Graduate of Dubai 2.5 Week Course -  November 2009 joined the elite team of Global Image Group Consultants after graduating from the Sterling Style Academy.
• Ameriga Giannone (Italian born, residing in Chile) – Graduate of Miami 2.5 Week Course – January 2010 is a make-up artist, fashion stylist and personal stylist in Santiago, Chile. She travels between Chile, Argentina, and Italy to work with clients – shopping for them globally.

• Helen MacGillivray (Canada) - Graduate of New York 2.5 Week Course -  April 2010 has published a style guide and works with personal styling and corporate styling clients.

“Hi Michelle, I hope everything is well with you. My business is growing fast and I am planning two workshops for this month.  Also I am going to make the shopping trip to Vegas happen in March.  I will keep you posted and if you need a testimonial let me know. – Helen”

• Yetunde Bankole-Bernard and Eloho Alero Abada (Nigeria) – Graduates of New York 2.5 Week Course and Las Vegas 5 Day Course – April and September 2010 – are still launching their business in the very new personal styling industry in Nigeria. They are setting themselves up to be personal shopping pioneers in their industry.

“Hi Michelle! We’ve talked about you all week & even just concluded on sending a message today. We are doing great! Putting finishing touches to the website and holding a seminar by the end of Nov. Sure we’ll keep you posted. Regards, Yetunde”

“Hallo Michelle! Everyother thing is going on smoothly according to plan and you will be hearing from us shortly! I see there’s a lot going on at your end – as usual. Hope you are well and do take care. – Alero”

• Ann Damon Reilly (USA) – Graduate of One-on-One Training – June 2010, incorporated her interior decorating business with image consulting – immediately generating clients.

“Just wanted to let you gals know the Sterling Style Academy training was such a great experience for me. As a busy mother of two this career fits so well with managing my family. I recommend the in person training – so valuable to have the face to face contact and knowledge provided. I reflect on my training often when working with my clients. Feel free to contact me at ann@anndamonreilly.com if you have any questions. www.anndamonreilly.com is my website. Work in progress!”

Keys to Success:

As fashion and style are truly hands-on professions, we believe that our graduates have benefited greatly from the in-person, hands-on training they received in one of our in-class courses.  With one-on-one interaction with instructors and class mates from all over the world, Sterling Style Academy graduates are more globally versed in fashion and aware of the influences of various cultural trends.

Those who graduate from the Sterling Style Academy all share the abilities to put their education to use in their businesses, market themselves appropriately according to the tools they learned in class, and most importantly, they are not afraid to take risks.  Sterling Style Academy’s training director, Michelle T. Sterling, who co-authored the book, Success Simplified, motivates students through her own drive and business savvy to do the same in their market.  Students recognize that to be successful in the image consulting and personal shopping industry, it takes personal conviction and the confidence to take smart risks.  Our graduates take this cue from our internationally recognized alumnae and staff to build successful businesses for themselves in their own region or country.  This is what makes the Sterling Style Academy so unique and globally recognized as a leader in producing top-notch personal stylists and personal shoppers.

Another key to success for each of our featured alumni, particularly in 2010, is their investment in their continuing development as image professionals through our training materials.  These valuable training products incorporate instructional training workbooks and dvds that our graduates can future reference upon the completion of their personal stylist and personal shopper training.

The Global Benefits of the Sterling Style Academy

The Sterling Style Academy trains globally diversified image consultants and personal shoppers who not only become pioneers in their countries but also are based all over the world.  Many of them take advantage of the Sterling Style Academy’s “Corporate America,” success oriented mentally – incorporating our methodologies in their best business practices.  International students who have chosen to educate themselves in New York, Miami, San Francisco, or Las Vegas have also benefited from the American shopping experience.  Those who have enrolled in our international programs in Dubai, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong have truly mastered the art of international shopping combined with a structured methodology for conducting personal shopping sessions outside of the United States.

Image consulting and personal shopping is not only a growing industry worldwide, but is also one that is financially viable, no matter where in the world you launch your business.  Regardless of where you live and if your training takes place in the United States or by an American-based personal shopping training academy, the principles and core competences you learn at the Sterling Style Academy are universally accepted worldwide.

The Sterling Style Academy trains successful image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers in London, Sydney, and Hong Kong.  Our 2.5 week certification course has been successfully executed in Dubai with a 300% increase in student body attendance within one year. We expect the same kind of success for our World Traveler program, which positions you for success to become a global image consultant and to market your services to individuals or corporations in more than one region, especially if you’re an expat. Work with clients between London and Hong Kong, or between Sydney and New York, or where ever you travel to! Register for the World Traveler program for Sydney and Hong Kong before January 12, 2011.

About the Sterling Style Academy

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!  Like us or become our friend on Facebook.

As a Certified Personal Shopper, you are able to bill clients a higher hourly or daily rate than non-certified personal shoppers or stylists.  And your clients will be eager to pay, because they trust that you have truly mastered the principles of image and style, and they know that their image goals will be achieved under your guidance.

In many mid-sized to major cities (in the US, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, or Asia), a personal shopper without professional training who is launching her business can realistically look to secure clients at an hourly rate equivalent to $20-$30 USD per hour.  However, if you add the credibility of professional training, your starting hourly rate can range from the equivalent of $50 – $100 USD per hour, depending upon your market and your target clientele.  Within your first 3 years, you will be able to raise your asking price to $100-$150 USD per hour because now you have training and experience.

During your first year of professional personal styling, you can realistically expect to work with an average of three clients per month depending upon how aggressively your pursue clients and how well you utilize your network.  Given an 8 hour personal styling and personal shopping session – this means that as a non-certified personal stylist, you can expect an income from $480-$720 USD per month.

A Certified Personal Shopper who launches her business working with an average of 3 clients per month at 8 hours per session can expect to earn from $1200-$2400 USD per month. As you can see, because you have invested in professional training, you are already on your way to seeing a real, lucrative income from personal styling and personal shopping become a reality within the next 2-3 years.

During your first 1-2 years as a professional personal shopper, you will most likely need to seek an additional source of income in order to sustain your living expenses, or be supplemented by your partner, spouse or family.  But as you will learn below, if you continue to actively pursue your new career, you will be enjoying a full-time, lucrative income through your personal styling business within 3 years!

During your second and third years as a professional personal stylist, as a non-certified personal shopper, you will be able to raise your hourly rate to $30-$50 USD.  With dedication to your business, you can also expect to double your client load to an average of 6 clients per month.  Given an 8 hour session per client, a non-certified personal stylists can expect to earn from $1440 – $2400 per month, equivalent to $17,000 – $25,000 per year.  Based on these numbers, you can see that a Certified Personal Stylist worked half as much and earned the same income during her first year as a non-certified personal stylist earned working twice as much in her second or third year.

As a Certified Personal Shopper, you can expect to raise your hourly rate to $75-$150 per hour during your  second or third year and can also realistically double your client load to 6 clients per month.  By investing in Personal Shopper Training now, in two-three years you can expect to earn from $3600-$7200 USD per month.  That’s a yearly income of $43,000 – $86000 achieved during your second or third year as a Certified Personal Shopper! Obviously, it goes without saying that these numbers are achievable through hard work and dedication to actively seeking clients and consistently building your network.  However being your own boss also has it advantages and provides you with more flexibility and freedom than working in a retail establishment or for a company.

Personal Shopper and Personal Stylist Salaries Across the Globe Range From:
Dubai Personal Shoppers: 350 – 550 AED per hour based on their experience and training
London Personal Shoppers: £ 30 – 45 without training and £ 50 – 80 on average with training
Australian Personal Shoppers: $100 – 175 per hour in a major metropolitan city such as Sydney or Melbourne
European Personal Shoppers: € 55 – 90 per hour on average in a fashion capital, based on credibility and training
Hong Kong Personal Shoppers: HK$ 550 – 1250 per hour depending on experience, training and target demographic
Nigerian Personal Shoppers: ₦ 15175 – 22750 based on target demographic and personal stylist training

The personal shopper and personal stylist industries are growing rapidly in countries including: Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Poland, Australia, Hong Kong and China, Singapore, Shanghai, Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, Nigeria, South Africa, and across Africa. With the US Dollar currently weaker in value against the Euro, now is the time for aspiring personal stylists from Europe and Asia to invest in the Sterling Style Academy’s World Traveler Training Programs, 2.5 Week Training Programs, New York 4 Week Training Program, and our at home training products.

Imagine launching your business as a Certified Personal Stylist and earning a salary equivalent to your friends in the corporate, cubicle world of 9-5 in less than 3 years.  Imagine earning an income that increases by 50%-100% each year based on your own hard work and merit. In no time at all, you’ll be enjoying the life and career of your dreams!

Through personal shopper training in 10 cities around the world, online training, at home training products, and the Sterling Style Academy Marketing and Business Brand Identity Launch Kit, your goals of creating a full-time personal shopper and personal styling business can be achieved!  Making an investment in yourself is making an investment in your business.

About the Sterling Style Academy

The Sterling Style Academy trains and certifies prospective and aspiring image consultants, personal stylists, and personal shoppers to pursue the career of their dreams.  With 10 annual training courses held throughout the year in New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, as well as Online Training, Teleclasses, and Short eCourses, the Sterling Style Academy prepares you to become a top notch pioneer in the image consulting, personal shopping, and personal styling industry.  Master the art of image, fashion and style to become a fashion styling expert.  Contact the Sterling Style Academy today to learn how we can help you start a career you are passionate about – shopping and styling!  Like us or become our friend on Facebook.