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Invest like Wall Street’s best. Learn from some of the market’s greatest minds: Ray Dalio, Meredith Whitney, Joel Greenblatt, and Seth Klarman.

Mastering the Markets

On MasterClass, Mellody Hobson, one of America’s most prominent business leaders, shares the moments that defined her career so you can transform your own.

Teaches Strategic Decision-Making

Design a Space You Love

Tackle the Hard Conversations With Radical Candor®

Style Your Own Hair For Any Occasion

Alexis Ohanian shares the entrepreneurial advice he wishes he knew before becoming cofounder of Reddit.

Teaches Building Your Startup

Karla Welch, celebrity stylist, teaches you how to identify and own your personal style whether you’re discovering your signature look or refining your capsule wardrobe.

Teaches Building and Owning Your Personal Style

Perfect your cup of Joe in the morning then master pizza night at home with lessons on the new MasterClass series, G.O.A.T. World Barista Champion Dale Harris and 13-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani share their secrets to help you master your favorite sips and dishes at home. 

The Greatest of All Time

Rosalind Brewer, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, teaches business innovation on @MasterClass. Learn how to get buy-in from your team and innovate from within. 

Teaches Business Innovation

In a new Masterclass Original Series, Talking Shop, watch Neil Gaiman, Kevin Smith, and Gloria Steinem discuss those who have impacted their career journeys.

Icons and Their Influences

Duke Basketball’s Coach K has led some of the world’s greatest basketball players to victory. Now he’s teaching you how to bring out the best in your team, on or off the court.

Teaches Values-Driven Leadership

Teaches Chess

Garry Kasparov Teaches Chess

Teaches Dog Training

Brandon McMillan Teaches Dog Training

Teaches Creative Writing

Margaret Atwood Teaches Creative Writing

Teaches Photography

Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography

Teaches the Science of Better Sleep

Matthew Walker Teaches the Science of Better Sleep

Teaches the Art of Negotiation

Chris Voss Teaches The Art of Negotiation

Teaches U.S. Presidential History and Leadership

Doris Kearns Goodwin Teaches U.S. Presidential History and Leadership

Teaches Interior Design

Kelly Wearstler Teaches Interior Design

Teaches Conservation

Dr. Jane Goodall Teaches Conservation

Teaches Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home

Gordon Ramsay Teaches Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home

Teaches Singing

Christina Aguilera Teaches Singing

"I now feel confident enough to have a PLAN to properly execute my design elements in my home space. I really want to channel Shea and put my own self to test!" --Trez'ja M.

"I would tell students that come after me - have fun! It is a great course and you will learn a lot from it!" --Georgia W.

"Shea has taught me so many tips. It's not about buying the most expensive things or having a lot of money, it's all about working with what you have." --Clivonya W.

"I really felt well prepared after taking this class. I like how it was all broken down by what you start with and then ends with how you finish a room!" --Laurie T.

"Most of what Shea talked about was applicable to different styles and budgets, not just for people that have a huge budget for one room!" --Hannah S.

"I would definitely recommend this Session to everyone who wants to learn something new or more about interior decorating." --Juan F.

Shea introduces her session, inspiring you to create the living space of your dreams. She walks you through what you will learn and provides a step-by-step guide on how to reimagine and update your home’s most lived-in spaces. Finally, Shea expands on her backstory, sharing how she got started, what inspired her, and why she believes so strongly in the power of interior design. 

Session Overview

It’s time for your first assignment: Upload a “before” photo of the space you plan to design with Shea (note the the file size limit is 10 MB). Soon, your space will be transformed.

Take Your “Before” Photo

Shea welcomes you to her session on interior design and tells you what you’ll need to get started. Whether you’re doing a quick home update or a full renovation, Shea guides you through the interior design process using her best tips and tricks.

Shea welcomes you to her session on interior design and lists everything you’ll need to get started.

Introduction

Some spaces must serve multiple purposes. In this lesson, Shea shows you how to incorporate a home office area within a main living space, and how these interior design concepts translate to a bedroom. 

Designing Office Nooks and Bedrooms

Alongside Shea, you’ll dive deep into sofa selections and determine ideal placements of chairs and ottomans. Shea explains how you can ensure you have the right amount of connectivity and contrast.

Choosing Sofas, Chairs, and Ottomans

In this lesson, Shea’s floor plan come to life as she places foundational furniture pieces—rugs, sofas, a coffee table, and a console. Learn how a contrast of selections can create a cohesive look, then apply what you’ve learned to your own space. Additionally, you’ll find a detailed breakdown of different furniture styles in the linked guides.

Navigating Furniture Placement

Whether new or newly repurposed, furniture is a foundational element of every room. Follow Shea’s steps to create a space that exudes flow and function, no matter your style or budget. 

Follow Shea’s steps to create a space that exudes flow and function, no matter your style or budget. 

Furniture Selection and Placement

As you continue to dress up your space, Shea explains how to maximize natural light. Then she breaks down different types of window treatments to consider. Check out the guides for drape-hanging tips.

Choosing Window Shades and Drapes

It’s time to start setting the mood. In this lesson, Shea teaches her signature approach to layering lighting for the perfect balance in any room. She speaks to each of the lighting choices, explaining their purposes and functions for any space. Check out the guides for an even more detailed rundown on the different types of bulbs.

Finding Balance with Lamps and Bulbs

From lamps and bulbs to shades and drapes, Shea teaches you all you need to know about balancing lighting in the space you’re designing.

Shea illuminates her philosophy on interior lighting design while you create one of your own.

Lighting Design

Shea shows you how to establish a color palette and overall feel for your room design. She demonstrates how to narrow down images and objects to develop an interior design mood board. She also shows how to field multiple opinions by offering tips on how to blend styles.

Creating Your Color Palette and Mood Board

Take what you’ve learned from Shea and create your own mood board. Once you’re finished, take a photo and upload your .jpg or .png image file here. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Your Mood Board

Check out what others have designed. Let them know what you are drawn to about their interior design mood boards.

Feedback: Mood Boards

Before you get too deep into a design project, it’s important to have a plan. Shea breaks down the early steps of the interior design process, including decluttering your space, developing a spending strategy, and establishing a timeline. In the guides, you’ll find additional tips for budgeting, tracking, and ideating the interior of your dreams.

Making Your Interior Design Plan

Taking on an interior design project can be overwhelming, but Shea knows exactly how to start on the right foot. In this section, you’ll create a vision and stick to it. Shea helps you develop a mood board and color palette while crafting a clear interior design plan.


Shea helps you develop a mood board and color palette for a clear interior design plan.

Mood Board and Design Plan

Have a look at your fellow designers’ design boards and floor plans. Let them know your thoughts. 

Feedback: Design Boards

Now that you have your plan, share a photo of your physical or digital design board. You can also share a photo of your sketched or taped-out floor plan in the community feed.

Share Your Design Board

The design journey continues! In this lesson, you transform your mood board into a design board where you can store all of your purchased interior finishes and furnishings. Shea shows you how to stay organized and what information to include in your design board. 

Compile Your Design Board

In this lesson, Shea demonstrates her top tips and techniques for measurement and shows you how to tape out your space. By having an accurate understanding of what your space can hold, you’ll avoid making any unnecessary purchases. Check out the guides for more tips and tricks on dimensions, floor plans, and tools.

Sketch Your Floor Plan

In this section, you’ll begin turning abstract ideas into clear and concise interior design plans. Shea shows you how to utilize a design board, make a floor plan, and ensure you’re purchasing furniture that perfectly fits your space.

With Shea’s help, learn to use a design board, make a floor plan, and pick out the right furniture.

Floor Plan

In this lesson, Shea explains how to select the proper scale of artwork for different spaces in your home. Get tips on how a little goes a long way in the linked PDF guide.

Choosing Artwork

Shea demonstrates how she styles and groups accent pieces on shelves in the living room. She shows you how to achieve a feeling of calmness while unifying the space. 

Styling and Accessorizing: Shelves

Shea brings it all together by accenting the coffee table. She also demonstrates how textiles can come to life through pillow styling.

Styling and Accessorizing: Upholstery

Take a look at which accent pieces your peers chose. Let them know what pairings or groupings will influence your interior accenting strategy.

Feedback: Accent Pieces

The final touches are almost complete! It’s time to select and purchase the accessories from your design board. Upload photos of individual pieces and/or groupings here and to the community.

Share Your Accent Pieces

It’s not just about having amazing pieces; it’s about making them shine in your space. In this section, Shea demonstrates her process for accenting and styling spaces. She’ll help you curate artwork while creating balance on shelves and coffee tables. 

In this section, Shea will help you curate artwork and balance your space with accents.

Interior Accents

Now that you’ve experimented with swatches, color, and mood, upload your chosen color palette to the feed. Your .jpg or .png image file can be up to 10 MB. 

Share Your Room Color Palette

Take a gander through the rainbow of color palettes your peers have created. Let them know what inspires you about their palettes by leaving feedback and support.

Feedback: Room Color Palettes

It’s time to take the leap and choose your finishes—but not before getting Shea’s tips and tricks on everything from paint colors to wood stains to textile fabrics. Find even more tips in the guides.

Choosing Your Interior Finishes

Shea demonstrates how you can develop more confidence in fabric selection by working with swatches. She mixes, matches, and compiles different colors of fabrics and textiles, encouraging you to do the same for your space. Check out the image and PDF guides for even more tips.

Selecting Fabrics

Shea breaks down the important details for picking fabrics and finishes. From color palettes to wood finishings, Shea teaches her entire process for developing classic, timeless interior designs. 

Shea breaks down the important details for picking your fabrics and finishes.

Interior Finishes and Fabric Schemes

You did it! Shea wraps her session by walking through the fully furnished room that she designed over the course of the session. You’ll review your design decisions and bask in the glow of your newly designed room!

Celebrate Your Finished Space!

How does your newly designed space feel? Live in your space for five days, and take five minutes a day to write down what reactions it elicits. When the week is done, make any necessary changes. Then upload a photo of your finished space!

Share Your Observations

Let’s take in what you’ve just designed. Shea recaps all the choices you’ve made and explains how they’ll come together to create a beautiful, cohesive interior design that you can apply to any space in your home. 

Shea recaps all the choices you made in her session to craft a beautiful, cohesive interior design.

Your Completed Room

Define Your Space

Garner Your Design Elements

Activate Your Vision

For this session, you’ll use a pencil, notebook, painter’s tape, and graph paper. The rest of the design is up to you!

Give your favorite room in the house a first-class face-lift with home renovation expert Shea McGee. Discover how to add new and simple flares that transform the look and feel of the room entirely. 

Shea McGee

Shea McGee has revolutionized the home renovation world, leveraging her approachable design aesthetic to make beautiful interior design dreams a reality. From social media sensation to Emmy-nominated Netflix star, she’s empowered millions of fans with an inspiring vision for creating timeless homes they love living in.

Shea posing next to a fireplace in a black shirt and jeans.

Shea standing next to a chair in a furnished livingroom.

Shea standing in front of a wall of shelves with organized baskets.

Design your favorite room

Home & Lifestyle

"Learning radical candor is vital for me to be a better boss and overall person." -Ruth O. 

"I never really knew what radical cando was but now I'm realizing how important it is to be very honest when delivering and receiving feedback." -Brett W.

"This is something I'm going to have to practice often! And with time, it will get easier so long as I revisit Kim's tips." -Stefan T.

"Having the opportunity to practice giving praise made me realize how hard it actually is. Praise is more than a compliment and should be given with intention." -Rachelle J.

"Criticism doesn't always have to be about something super major but the way we deliver the feedback can be most affective if we use this method." -Justin J.

"I don't always know how to handle situations where and employee gets mad or sad with the feedback I give them, but now I know, radical candor is the best way to approach hard conversations." -Phillipa Z.

Meet Kim Scott—the thought leader on a mission to rid the world of bad bosses—and learn how she developed the Radical Candor® framework. She’ll provide an overview of what you’ll accomplish during her session and share how you can start putting Radical Candor into practice right away.

Meet Your Instructor: Kim Scott

Kim introduces herself and provides an overview of what you’ll do: Learn the Radical Candor® method for getting and giving transformational feedback. 

Meet Kim and the Radical Candor® method for getting and giving transformational feedback. 

Kim shares a question from a fellow member. Take a moment to consider their issue and then hear Kim’s thoughts on how Radical Candor can help.

Radical Candor Advice Column

Reflect on how your experience giving praise unfolded and submit your thoughts to your peers.

How Did Your Praise Go?

Now that you’ve learned Kim’s strategies for receiving feedback, it’s time to learn how to give praise! Using an image guide, learn how Kim uses two critical acronyms—HIP and CORN—to give praise effectively.

HIP and CORN for Feedback

Using role-play, Kim demonstrates two paths for giving praise: one that is ideal and another that needs improvement. She also shares a checklist you can use for giving effective praise.

Common Mistakes When Giving Praise

Explore your peers’ reflections and provide feedback on their experiences.

Give Feedback

Explore Kim’s tools for giving praise and learn how to use them in your day-to-day interactions.

Offer Powerful Praise 

Take a moment to celebrate how far you’ve come! Take note as Kim shares her final thoughts on the power of practicing Radical Candor, and fill out a self-assessment to gauge your progress.

Persistence and Practice

In her final advice column, Kim answers another question. She  offers guidance to her former self, emphasizing the importance of using Radical Candor and teaching it to others.

Using concrete examples, Kim shows you how to identify bias, prejudice, and bullying disguised as feedback. To learn more about them—and how they’re different from feedback—check out the article in the Guide.

Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying

Learn Kim’s favorite tips and techniques for maintaining your new skills, encouraging candor, and sustaining the empowering culture you’ve created.

Maintain your new skills, encourage candor, and sustain the empowering culture you’ve created.

Cultivate a Candid Culture

Kim explains what the Radical Candor method is and why it’s valuable in any relationship—at work and at home. The first step in your journey is understanding where you are. Complete the self-assessment from Kim to get started. (You’ll find one at the top of each section.) And don’t miss the PDF of the Radical Candor framework, which you can download and refer to throughout the class.

What Is Radical Candor®?

In a demonstration with Lele and Roberto, Kim shows you how to use the four quadrants and two axes of Radical Candor to analyze feedback.

The 4 Quadrants in Action

Listen to Kim’s real-life accounts on the value of candid criticism and why it’s your job to give radically candid feedback. Discover how “protective hesitation” can hold you back.

Why, Where, and How to Give Radical Candor

Kim shares stories of Radical Candor in action and provides a checklist you can use to understand and embrace the Radical Candor method.

Radical Candor Stories

Here’s your chance to speak up! It’s time for you to share a story about receiving radically candid feedback. If you need inspiration, check out your peers’ stories. Or, if you aren’t comfortable sharing just yet, write your story and select the “Do not share with the community” box.

Share Your Radical Candor Story

Kim takes a question from a MasterClass member. Consider how you might respond—then get Kim’s suggested approach through the Radical Candor framework.

Navigate the four quadrants of Radical Candor and learn why this framework can improve your interactions in any relationship, at work or at home.

Navigate the four quadrants of Radical Candor and improve your interactions at work—or at home.

Understand Radical Candor

Kim walks you through her tips for receiving feedback effectively, starting with the way you hear it.

Listen to the Feedback

Think about how you’d answer this question from a fellow MasterClass member. Get Kim’s take and see how it lines up with all you’ve learned about the Radical Candor method.

Create and share a plan for putting your go-to question to work—and then put your plan into action.

Share Your Plan

Learn why asking for feedback is critical to your success. Then customize Kim’s favorite go-to question to your own voice—and use it to start inviting honest, open-ended, and transformational feedback from others.

How to Ask For Feedback

Learn techniques for rewarding the candor you receive and dive into Kim’s illustrations of how those techniques work in different situations.

Reward Candor

Observe instances of solicited feedback—and remember to apply what you’ve learned about asking for feedback.

Practice Asking for Feedback

Let’s learn by doing—and learn from one another! Use your go-to question for soliciting feedback, then share stories of your experience with your peers.

Assignment: Make the Ask

Walk through Kim’s methodical approach to providing and receiving feedback, including how to identify and reward candor in the workplace and beyond.

Learn Kim’s approach to giving and receiving feedback as well as identifying and rewarding candor.

Ask for and Receive Feedback

Kim walks you through two scenarios in which criticism is delivered—including one that could use improvement—and asks for your suggestions. Then it’s your turn! Use Kim’s checklist in the Guides to help you offer effective criticism. Don’t forget to submit a reflection on how your process of giving criticism went.

Practice Giving Criticism

Kim discusses the differences between criticism, correction, and debate while demonstrating their distinctions with personal examples.

Criticism, Correction, and Debate at Work

Apply the same tools you learned for giving praise to provide criticism through a caring lens. Learn how to identify the real problem when bias, prejudice, and bullying creep in masked as feedback.

Learn to identify the real problem when bias, prejudice, and bullying creep in masked as feedback.

Give Criticism Effectively

For this session, all you’ll need are your favorite tools for taking notes.

Transform your teams and tackle tough conversations with bestselling author Kim Scott. In this session, you’ll use her Radical Candor method to give and solicit feedback, cultivate an inclusive culture, and empower others with your honesty.

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