One-on-One Mentorship

for color consultants committed to excellence
Joan Kosmachuk

When you run a color consultancy business it makes all the difference to have the support of someone who knows where you’ve been and how to confidently achieve success. Joan has spent years honing her expertise in this vibrant industry and delights in sharing those insights with you in an encouraging, inspiring and practical way.

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The Mentor

A Life's Work in Color

Joan Kosmachuk is among the world's foremost practitioners of the Suzanne Caygill method of seasonal color analysis. Mentored herself, by the late Cathy Williams, Joan has spent over a decade developing the discernment, trained eye, instinct and business savy that this discipline demands.

Joan is here to train and support you with all the aspects of relating to a successful color business. From learning the art of seeing visual harmony in your clients to finding your place in the business world of color analysis she can get you there. Helping you to identify your ideal clients and how to best connect with them, gaining color confidence in working with clients, learning how to accurately type those challenging clients or more.

All of this can be navigated in her training and mentoring programs, each one tailored to your unique needs.

10+ years in professional color consultancy
Trained & Mentored by Cathy Williams (direct lineage to Suzanne Caygill)
 Certified, Image and Color International 
Certified, The Style Core
Training conducted online and in-person, Palm Desert, CA

Meaningful Mentorship

What You Can Expect

Have you completed your color training but need more help to develop confidence in color consulting?  Are you trained in another system but want to observe how to do a Caygill-inspired analysis? Or do you just need to grow your color confidence?  Joan has a limited number of mentorship spots available each year. One-to-one mentoring with Joan is available to trained color consultants who seek confidence to be their true selves and let that shine through in their work.

With Joan as your mentor you can explore whatever challenge is most present for you and determine the agenda of each session to really make the most of Joans expertise to support you wherever you are at with your work.

Tailored to Your Unique Needs

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Targeted Input

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Whether that is tackling current challenges you are facing with a particular client, looking to develop your knowledge in a particular area of color analysis or reviewing your business and how to make it really successful.

Assistance in Analysis

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Reviewing a client palette or navigating complex client scenarios, Joan can provide that second pair of eyes to give you the extra confidence in deciding a client’s seasonal type/subtype and colors.

One of the biggest hurdles can be simply getting your color business off the ground, or getting things moving again when you find yourself stuck. Joan can guide you toward a personal path to success on your terms.

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Who This Is For

Apprenticeship Calls a Particular Kind of Person

There is no single profile of the apprenctice. Some of the people who find their way here:

Graduates of Joan’s Color Confidence Courses who want more hands on training, who desire in-person observation and/or online support

Color Consultants trained elsewhere in the Suzanne Caygill tradition who sense there is more to this discipline than their current training has given them or lack confidence.

Practicing Color Consultants seeking support and expertise for building a successful business that reflects their strengths.

  • "“I have achieved a lot since I started working with Joan. I have accomplished things I doubted I was capable of. With her guidance, it was all broken down into manageable pieces. Along the way, I felt deliciously challenged, never overwhelmed. My business is expanding, already doing 4 times what it did last year - and this year is not over. For the first time in my life, I feel confidence in my business and optimistic for what wonderful things are coming.”

    Denise, California

  • "I really appreciate the way you teach – your openness, your positive energy and the fact that you answer all my questions. I feel you are a great trainer and I feel very safe to ask a lot of questions and explore." 

    Magda, Poland

  • "Thank you so much for the wonderful course and for everything you shared with us. I really appreciate your patience, support, and kind approach – the course was truly enjoyable for me, and I feel so happy to have had the chance to meet you.”  

    Monika, Prague

  • "Thanks for everything, Joan. I really appreciate all the work that went into putting this course together. I now have a much firmer foundation of ethos as well as tools to begin my analysis journey more fully.”


     Claire,  Canada

  • " I felt that it was very in-depth, which was surprising for the length and the number of classes. I think because you gave us so much homework to do, that made it feel very detailed. I felt that my previous training was a lot of lectures, but not as much self-study and reflection as you required. As much as I love listening to someone explaining the idea, it's actually doing the work that helps me to learn the most. “

     Leigh, California

  • “I loved everything about the course, but especially the insight that everyone is truly unique and inherently harmonious to themselves and the universe, and that unique harmony can be detected and revealed via the 16 keys and pigmentary understanding (and ideally a great fabric swatch lab!)"

    Em, Arizona

  • "One of the biggest benefits of this course is the encouragement to think about the whole concept as the originator might have done but then also the encouragement to make your own observations and cultivate a "free" understanding of what is possible and what isn't in combination with being given a guideline of how to apply the whole construct in a practical way."

    Laura, Germany

How it Works

Mentorship is available in a package of 6 or 12 - 2 hour sessions that can be conducted online or in-person in Palm Desert California, or a combination of both. Sessions times are booked based on mutual availability. Packages must be purchased in advance and used within a 12-month period.

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"I love hearing from people who feel drawn to this work. Write and tell me where you are — I'm always happy to explore whether working together makes sense."

— Joan Kosmachuk