Online Certification
Study the Sterling Color Quality System™ online with video lessons, assignments, personalized feedback, live tutoring, and professional certification upon successful completion.
Build practical color-consulting expertise with Sterling Style Academy’s professional Color Analysis Training. Learn to assess undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and contrast using modern tonal and seasonal frameworks. Choose flexible self-paced online study or immersive in-person instruction, then apply draping, palette creation, and client consultation methods with the confidence to add a valuable, personalized service to your styling business.
Flexible color education and certification options for professionals building confident, client-ready consultation skills.
Study the Sterling Color Quality System™ online with video lessons, assignments, personalized feedback, live tutoring, and professional certification upon successful completion.
Build hands-on color analysis skills through immersive instruction in undertones, tonal color theory, professional draping, palette harmony, and consultation business setup.
Combine professional color analysis instruction with fashion styling, style consultation, personal shopping, capsule wardrobe methods, and practical client-delivery workflows.
Learn the traditional 12-season framework, including dominant color characteristics, draping confirmation, and distinctions between commonly confused seasonal palettes.
Develop foundational styling skills through self-paced lessons in four-season color analysis, body shape, style personalities, outfit coordination, and portfolio building.
Create polished client color resources with a customizable digital tool featuring 120 Pantone colors organized across nine seasonal color types.
Sterling Style Academy helps you move beyond one-size-fits-all color typing and develop a repeatable professional consultation method. Training explores undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and contrast so you can identify harmonious colors and explain recommendations clearly. Whether you serve clients virtually or in person, you’ll gain practical frameworks, draping knowledge, and business-focused tools to deliver thoughtful color guidance with authority.
See how Sterling graduates apply their training in image consulting careers worldwide.
Learn from an established training institution built for real-world styling careers.
Learn from a founder with more than 20 years across fashion, retail, and consulting.
Earn training credentials from an academy with alumni working across more than 60 countries.
Pair technical color skills with practical guidance for packaging, pricing, and marketing client services.
Train with faculty bringing 50 years of combined industry experience and personalized instructional support.
Guidance shaped by experience, rigor, and global perspective.
Founder and Training Director
Michelle T. Sterling is the founder and training director of Sterling Style Academy, bringing over 20 years of award-winning experience across retail, fashion, and image consulting. She has developed affiliations with luxury houses like Giorgio Armani and Cartier. Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and Spanish from Wellesley College and is a former Certified Image Consultant, along with credentials from the Dale Carnegie Performance Training Program and the Protocol School of Washington. She has authored over 30 educational training books, DVDs, and CDs, and co-authored 'Success Simplified' with Stephen Covey. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, Michelle is dedicated to cultivating the talents of aspiring image consultants worldwide, having trained alumni across more than 60 countries throughout her distinguished career.
Color Analysis Training teaches you how to assess the color characteristics that influence harmony, including skin undertone, temperature, value or depth, chroma or intensity, and personal contrast. Depending on the program, you will also learn professional draping, seasonal and tonal systems, palette recommendations, consultation workflows, and ways to present color guidance for clothing, hair, makeup, and accessories.
Message our team about the program that fits your goals.
Recognized across retail and luxury fashion.
Faculty recognized in the industry’s top percentile.
Tell us about your experience and goals, and we’ll help you identify the right Color Analysis Training option.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.