Executive Image Strategy
Develop a professional visual presence that supports your leadership goals through color direction, style personality assessment, wardrobe priorities, and a personalized digital image playbook.
Refine how you show up with strategic virtual image consulting, personal styling, and color guidance from Sterling Style Academy. Atlanta professionals, executives, and individuals can receive tailored support for career transitions, leadership visibility, special events, or a more functional wardrobe—without sacrificing the convenience of an online experience. Build a polished visual presence that feels authentic, purposeful, and easy to maintain.

Strategic virtual services for clearer style direction, stronger presence, and a wardrobe aligned with your goals.
Develop a professional visual presence that supports your leadership goals through color direction, style personality assessment, wardrobe priorities, and a personalized digital image playbook.
Work one-on-one with a stylist to clarify your style, review your wardrobe, receive curated shopping recommendations, and build a digital lookbook of wearable outfits.
Discover clothing, hair, jewelry, and makeup colors that enhance your natural features through a personalized analysis using the Sterling Color Quality System.
Your image should support where you are going, not create more decisions each morning. Sterling Personal Styling combines color direction, body architecture, style personality, and professional context into practical recommendations you can use repeatedly. For Atlanta clients balancing visible careers, events, and busy schedules, virtual sessions make it possible to create a focused wardrobe strategy from wherever you are.

See how focused image strategy helps clients dress with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Guidance grounded in professional image expertise, practical systems, and individualized goals.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of fashion and image consulting experience.
The Sterling Method™ connects wardrobe choices to personal brand, career goals, and daily realities.
An alumni network spanning 60+ countries informs versatile guidance for Atlanta’s globally connected professionals.
Atlanta clients can access live, personalized image guidance without adding travel to demanding schedules.

Founder and Training Director
Sterling Style Academy provides professional education in image consulting, personal styling, color analysis, personal shopping, and fashion styling for students worldwide. Founded by Michelle T. Sterling, the Academy offers self-paced online courses and intensive in-person training designed to develop practical, client-ready skills.
Students who want to train online can begin with the Online Color Analysis Training, a self-paced $697 program for learning professional color-analysis methods, or the Online Stylist Training Course, a comprehensive $797 program covering color analysis, body shape analysis, style personalities, capsule wardrobes, client services, and the business of online personal styling.
Additional professional online courses are available for students who want to expand their image-consulting and styling expertise.
For students seeking intensive in-person education, Sterling Style Academy offers the 1-Day Stylist Training, 2-Day Color Analysis Training, 3-Day Fashion Stylist and Color Analysis Training, 5-Day Personal Stylist Training, 7-Day Image Consultant Training, and comprehensive 2-Week Image Consultant and Personal Stylist Training.
Sterling Style Academy also works with private clients through Sterling Personal Styling, providing online color-analysis consultations, virtual personal styling, and virtual image consulting.
A professional image consultant helps clients align their appearance, wardrobe, communication, and overall presence with personal or professional goals. Services can include color analysis, body and style assessment, closet editing, personal shopping, outfit planning, and personal-brand strategy. Rather than simply following trends, an image consultant creates practical recommendations that help clients present themselves with clarity, confidence, and consistency.
Speak with a stylist about the right virtual service for you.

Multiple Award-Winning, Professionally Certified Image Consultant and Industry Leader

Recognized for professional excellence and leadership in the image-consulting and styling industry.

Recognized for influence and leadership in online personal styling.
Featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, WWD, Business Insider, E! News and HuffPost.
Share your goals and preferred consultation focus. A Sterling representative will help identify the most suitable virtual service.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.