You might be good with a room, but unsure what to charge. This pathway pairs design training with pricing, proposals and clients. Made for the step from favours to invoices.
Spatial planning, lighting, colour and materials. The grounding behind choices a client will question.
Pricing, proposals, client management and marketing. The part that turns talent into a trade.
Jenna Cottis critiques your design work. Live sessions cover the business side beside it.
Homes get sold, shops get refitted, and new builds need dressing. The work is easy to picture. A brief, a budget, and a room that has to feel right.
Advising clients on a room, start to finish.
The final layer that makes a space sing.
Dressing a house so buyers see themselves in it.
The display home a builder sells from.
Palettes that behave in the light of the room.
Your own clients, one project at a time.
Helping shoppers choose in a showroom.
Building the room sets people walk through.
Your own studio, your own rates and diary.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Registered and degree qualified design work sits behind separate study.
What the business half adds to the design course.
Design consultants and studio owners lead the sessions, not lecturers reading notes.
Structures, a written plan, bookkeeping and Xero. Then pricing and proposals on top.
Design projects come paired with business toolkits and live strategy sessions.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
From the college, once both parts are done.
Design projects a working mentor has critiqued.
Your own, written as you go through it.
Enquire and an advisor sends the guide and the modules.
Start any day. Pay weekly, or upfront in one go.
Projects go to Jenna for written critique.
Write the plan, set your prices, take the first client.
No. It opens at design fundamentals. It is written for people aiming to launch something.
From $29 a week on a flexible plan, or pay upfront. Enquire to confirm current pricing.
About 200 hours across both parts, with 12 months of access.
Structures, a written plan, bookkeeping and Xero. Digital marketing unlocks after the core modules.
Jenna Cottis, a commercial interior designer. She has worked for national and global firms.
None. Assignments and key activities go to your mentor instead.
It comes from an ICOES accredited centre. The centre holds Official Accreditation with the CPD Standards Office. That is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. Those are different things. Clients hire on the rooms in your portfolio.
There is a 10-day money back guarantee from the day you enrol.
You enrol through The Career Academy, an online college in Christchurch.
The design half is delivered by Ulleo, the college's education partner. The college has run over 15 years. It helps more than 25,000 students a year. Abby, Ulleo's digital assistant, is there day and night.
Picture the morning you send your first proposal on your own letterhead, and the client signs it without asking for a discount.