Advanced Course
- ✓ All six core units plus four Advanced units
- ✓ Marketing, client systems, corporate programs and the path past working alone
- ✓ Open-book online exam, with the written answers marked by an assessor
- ✓ 30-day money-back guarantee
- ✓ Flexible, self-paced online learning with lifetime access
- ✓ Instant access to course materials
- ✓ Priced in USD
Course last updated: August 2026
Every certificate carries a verification id, so an employer or a client can confirm it themselves on our verification page. What a graduate has to do to earn one is set out in our certification standards.
Here's what you'll learn in our Advanced Course
Image Consulting Foundations
- Understanding the services image consultants sell and what each one involves
- Choosing between personal styling, corporate work, and a specialist niche
- Recognizing who your work suits and who it does not
- Setting expectations, boundaries and scope before a client books
- Working ethically with appearance, body image and personal circumstances
Setting Up Your Consulting Practice
- Registering your business and choosing the right structure
- Arranging insurance that covers advice, client property and home visits
- Writing a client agreement that covers scope, cancellations and payment
- Setting up simple bookkeeping and a business bank account
- Assembling a consulting kit: drapes, measuring tools, and what can wait
Color Analysis and Personal Palette
- Reading undertone, value, contrast and chroma in natural light
- Running a draping session in a repeatable order
- Explaining why a color works without relying on jargon
- Choosing a palette system and applying it consistently
- Delivering swatches and written guidance a client can actually use
Body Shape, Proportion and Fit
- Taking measurements accurately and describing them without judgment
- Working with proportion, balance and vertical line
- Diagnosing fit problems and naming the cause
- Understanding how fabric weight and drape change a silhouette
- Knowing what alterations can fix and what they cannot
Wardrobe Audits and Personal Shopping
- Running a wardrobe audit in a structured, unhurried order
- Getting a client to say how she wants to be read, in her own words
- Building a capsule around what a client already owns
- Preparing and running a shopping trip against a written brief
- Handing over a lookbook the client still uses six months later
Pricing, Packages and Your First Clients
- Costing a session including preparation, travel and follow-up
- Designing packages that fit how clients actually buy
- Writing a proposal that answers the question the client asked
- Running a discovery call that ends in a booking or an honest no
- Finding and booking your first ten paying clients
Marketing and Building Your Image Consulting Brand
- Building a portfolio, and getting client consent properly before you use it
- Showing your work without exposing a client who did not agree to it
- Being findable locally when someone searches for what you do
- Building referral relationships with salons, photographers and HR teams
- Choosing the marketing that suits your practice and dropping the rest
Client Systems and Virtual Consulting
- Setting up booking, intake and follow-up so nothing depends on memory
- Keeping client records securely and knowing what you may store
- Building reusable lookbook and report templates
- Running a consultation remotely, including its limits on color
- Handling rescheduling, no-shows and difficult feedback
Corporate Image Consulting
- Understanding what a corporate buyer is actually purchasing
- Designing and delivering a group workshop
- Working on a dress code or uniform project without dictating taste
- Writing a proposal and a statement of work for a business client
- Setting day rates and invoicing terms for corporate engagements
Scaling: Products, Associates and Long-Term Growth
- Turning a repeated consultation into a group program
- Building a digital product from work you already do
- Training an associate consultant to your standard
- Deciding what to keep doing yourself and what to hand over
- Planning for sustainable growth rather than a busier calendar
Send someone else to the job and still know it was done right
10 units and one exam. The four units past Professional are the ones about other people: marketing that brings work in, systems that survive a bad week, and hiring that does not cost you the client.
Enroll now ($498)
Quick and easy online exam
When you finish the training you take a short, open-book online exam. The multiple choice is marked automatically and the written answers are marked by an assessor. Pass, and you earn the Certified Image Consultant Professional (C.I.C.P.) credential, with a personalized certificate and a verification ID a client can check.
Advanced Course summary
For those who want a practice that fills itself, and the corporate work that pays several clients at once. No prior experience is required.
Everything in the Professional Course plus four additional units on marketing, systems, hiring, and scaling. Expect to add one to two weeks to the standard timeline, depending on your pace.
$498 for lifetime access.
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If you do not feel ready to consult after working through the training, we will give you your money back. Just email us within 30 days and we will refund the full cost. Guaranteed.
