Her Ceo Journey

Nicola Watson is the CEO and founder of Le Fashion Lab, a fashion design school in Atlanta, GA.  A certified project management professional (PMP), Nicola started Le Fashion Lab to create more options for studying fashion – more affordable, fewer prerequisites, no more waste of time and money. She created the syllabi and curriculum for all the classes, with a step-by-step approach to perfecting students’ skills in the most efficient manner possible – doing away with all the unnecessary prerequisites that keep students away from achieving their fashion goal. Additionally, she added a key component that is missing from a traditional fashion college education – a thorough understanding of the designer as a business owner and entrepreneur. She is also the author of “Fashion Designer Career Guide: Insider Tips for Fashion Career Planning.Nicola has always been disciplined with her spending habits. Yet, when she was about to have her first baby, her design school business lost money instead of breakeven as in the p