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Institute Summary
The Fashion + Beauty Institute offers an immersive 18-month career and business education coaching program designed for fashion and beauty entrepreneurs and middle managers. You will leverage your existing knowledge, expertise and brand reputation to achieve greater success.
This comprehensive coaching experience will help empower you to boost your income, refine your brand message, enhance your visibility in a competitive market, and position yourself for speaking opportunities while elevating your confidence and expertise to effectively manage your business operations and lead a team.
Meet Your Industry Experts
Coach Carmen
Livia Walker
Fatima Bey
Kierra Jones
Jazmine Bowen
Institute Details
Institute Description
The Advanced Fashion + Beauty Institute (F+BI) is an intensive 18 month career and business education program for ambitious fashion and beauty employees and entrepreneurs driven to advance their career in the industry. A team of industry experts provide hands-on mentorship, coaching and business consultation to help address limiting beliefs that prevent you from having the confidence to take your career to the next level.
During the Institute you will clarify your brand message and identity, learn how to maximize your expertise and earning potential, and gain the confidence and skills to manage business operations, systems and processes.
We accept up to 8 fashion + beauty professionals who are employees or entrepreneurs driven to disrupt the status quo, break down and break through the barriers of economic disparity, and advocate for themselves within the fashion + beauty worlds. The team of industry professionals are seeking to mentor, advise and coach individuals who are serious about advancing their career while growing a business or department.
We invite individuals who are coachable, embrace honest feedback and desire to improve and rise to the next level!
Fashion + beauty students will focus their attention on how to:
- Enhance their industry brand identity, message and influence
- Develop a better understanding of industry trends and how the business of fashion and/or beauty operates
- Work alongside a community of industry professionals and peers who inspire forward movement and advancement
The Institute is split into 2 parts:
- Part I focuses you on career and business education that helps you gain a deep understanding of business operations, systems and administration.
- Part II focuses on individual 1:1 mentorship that holds you accountable to securing a promotion, going full time in your business or elevating your business to the next level.
At the end of Part I, we will celebrate and showcase your success. This event is attended by fashion and beauty professionals, your family and friends and influential community members.
Ideal Candidates
Age: 18-35
Candidate Status: We are seeking motivated, coachable fashion + beauty professionals and entrepreneurs who embrace honest feedback, desire to improve their skills and knowledge about the business behind the industry. Candidates must have 4+ years of experience, have made $25,000+ in your role, a passion and desire to grow in the fashion and/or beauty industries whether you:
- work for and support the growth of a small, medium or large fashion or beauty company
- offer freelance services in the fashion and/or beauty industries or
- run a business in the fashion and/or beauty industries
You can currently in one or more of the following positions:
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- Designer (accessories, footwear and apparel)
- Wardrobe/Personal Stylist
- Event Producer (fashion shows and events)
- Film Producer and/or Director
- Model
- Hair Stylist or Product Creator
- Creative Director (fashion shows, photoshoots and events)
- Beauty: Makeup, hair, etc. for fashion professionals and/or events
- Lifestyle Brand + Retailer
- Blogging
- Fashion and Talent Agent
- Graphic Designer
- Fashion Show Stylist
- Fashion Ambassadors
- Visual Merchandising
Institute Phases
PHASE 1: Mindset + Personal Development
You will address negative thoughts and unproductive patterns that prevents you from pursuing BIGGER dreams THEN set the groundwork for a successful, transformational 18 month learning experience.
PHASE 2: Customer/Client Identification
You will identify and define who their ideal customer/client is so they can create marketing content that converts into sales.
For those self-motivated employees out there, the company leadership team is your client!
PHASE 3: Marketing, Brand Development + Content Creation
You will further develop your personal and company brand message and identity while creating marketing content that sells. The coaches and marketing pros will help you develop content that talks to your ideal client and coverts sales!
PHASE 4: Team Development
Having a solid team of people who helps you meet and exceed your goals is CRITICAL to your success You will gain clarity and develop a plan to build an irreplaceable team that help you achieve your goals, remain accountable your vision and be able to complete the tasks you cannot.
PHASE 5: Visual + Verbal Communications
Visual and verbal communication stand out as two distinct, interconnected means of expression. As a growing thought leader in your fields it is critical you confidently express your thoughts and ideas to connect with others on a deeper level. You will enhance your ability to articulate your message in a way that drives people to take action. From creating stunning portfolios to developing persuasive slideshow presentations, you will enhance or create documents that will support you in successfully pitching your products or services.
PHASE 6: Financial Management + Sales
Understanding your finances will empower you to grow your revenue as an employee or entrepreneur. It is CRITICAL for you to have full knowledge of the expenses and revenue that help you elevate to the next level of your career as an industry influencer and authority. You will enhance your confidence and ability to create financial documents that will help you understand the value of your services, the true cost of production so you’re not short changing yourself which will all lead to more confidence in your sales.
PHASE 7: Public Speaking + Networking
Getting comfortable motivating groups of people to take action will bring you far. From 4 day business trips to meet us with other pros in your field, you will be put in poisition to showcase your confidence to publicly market your expertise, products and/or services. The opportunities we will curate will be your time to convey messages that motivates your audience to take action! You will bring the skills you learn during the Visual and Verbal Communication phase into real life.
PHASE 8: Accountability Mentorship
You will be paired with an accountability mentor to assure you continue to implement action steps related to the next level goals you established for yourself by the end of the first 6 months of the Institute. This mentorship will be provided for 10 months after the first 6 months of the Institute.
PHASE 9: Celebrate at the Fashion + Beauty Showcase
After 18 months of hard work and dedication it is time to showcase your work.
YOU are worth the celebration!
We will host a public showcase that creates a platform for you to pitch your brand to industry pros and community members seeking to support your journey.
Schedule + Cost
Institute Schedule
Dates: February 2025 – August 2026
Part I: February 2025 – August 2025
4 Immesive Retreats
Monthly Coaching + Mentorship
Industry Tours + Business Trips
Part II: October 2025 – August 2026
10 months of 1:1 Accountability Mentorship
Public Industry Showcase
Application accepted October – December
Interviews conducted November and December
Institute Tuition
$8,500 for entrepreneurs or employees paying themselves (true value: $39,000 per student; generous sponsors help allow you to pay 21% of the cost)
Institute fee supports three 3 night/4 day retreats, intensive industry specific coaching and mentorship, supplies, workbook, dinner at each session, RT travel and overnight accommodations tour, Fashion + Beauty tour* will be a 2 night/3 day business trip and 10 months of 1:1 mentorship from an industry professional following Part I of the Institute. PAYMENT PLANS ARE OFFERED.
*The Fashion + Beauty tour will be a 2night/3day business trip in NYC that includes meetings with fashion + beauty professionals who are staples of the global fashion + beauty industry*
Program Impact
35
students have completed the institute
19
have continued growing their careers in the local fashion industry
16
grew their businesses in terms of clients and revenue
3
hired additional employees
10
students grew into successful freelancers
Unique Mason
Fashion Designer
“I feel more motivation to move forward with my business because I have a better understanding of production costs, my customer profiles and how to operate my business.”
Company: Uniquely D’Vine
Donnay Stone
Emerging Fashion Designer
“I got to see the real ins and outs of how the back end side of the industry works. I experienced and develop[ed] a deeper understanding of the business of fashion from industry leaders.”
Malaika Iyok
Wardrobe Stylist
“Meeting professionals in the industry helped me get valuable feedback about what I want to do and knowing someone in the professional field of what I want to do gave me the confidence to do it.”
Company: Iyok Stylez
Eugene O’Neill
Apparel Designer
“The program is what I asked for. Our experience with Kierra, one of the teachers/mentors, helped me define who my brand is for.”