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SEARCHWhile the hands-on, peer-led event will continue to dive into the data of five leading KPIs, it will also look at how leading salons are recruiting and retaining their staff, offer tips for lessening burnout, and review the new rules for leadership and team culture.
While it’s your team’s job to take care of your clients, it’s your job to take care of your team. While that’s always been more important, it’s never been more critical than now when it’s harder to recruit than ever, the tumultuous change in the world is causing stress, and employee burnout is running high.
As we made plans for Data-Driven Salon Summit, which will be held in Nashville, May 15-16, we decided to dub this conference, “The Year of the Team.” As usual, the conference will provide a deep-dive into the metrics of ‘salon success,” and speakers will provide metric benchmarks and best practices to drive important KPIs like Average Ticket, Client Count, Client Retention and Productivity. This year, the peer-driven, hands-on experience also will discuss how to build a sound culture, and what today’s owners are doing to build stronger, thriving teams.
In addition, Data-Driven Salon Summit will host The SALON TODAY 200 Celebratory Dinner and Award Programs, where the 2022 Class of the SALON TODAY 200 will be recognized and special awards will be presented in Courage in Leadership, Creativity in Customer Experience, Strengthening Team Culture, Philanthropic Outreach, Business Innovation and Modernization in Education.
Here’s a recap of some of this year’s highlights:
Entrepreneurial Operating Systems’ Justin Cook will help you get crystal clear about what makes someone a great fit for your organization and how to get the right people on the bus in the right seats, and retain them.
Phorest’s Rob Hewitt and Verna Wall mined their company data to help salons understand what today’s perfect clients are looking for in a salon.
Visage Salon Group’s Frank Gambuzza will share five ways his management systems have pivoted since the pandemic, including recruiting, compensation, training, ongoing education and client expectations.
Boulevard’s Shanalie Wijesinghe will explain why the new dynamics of the modern workplace demands a different approach, showing you and your team how to work smarter, not harder.
Human Behavior Expert Jen Groover will help you address burnout and mental wellness in the salon, including how to increase energy and mental clarity to increase productivity, passion and fulfillment.
Vagaro’s Fred Helou will demonstrate data, targeting and a personalized experience will help your salon develop your existing customers to yield the ROI you desire.
Salon Leaders Karen Gordon, Rudy and Amy Daniel Moser, Chris Knudsen, Rebecca Ezolt, and Kopsa Otte's April McDaniel, CPA and CRSP, will share succession plans that have allowed owners to hand down ownership of their businesses to trusted employees or other owners.
Neatbeat’s Heather Yurko and Bella Style Salon’s Jen Baudier will share how they manage and build profit in their salon businesses.
Muse Salon and Spa’s Daniel Mason Jones will talk you through how you how he built a strong culture and continually evolves it to the point he has a wait list to work there.
Strategies’ Michael Yost and a panel of owners including Sarah McGee Mariman, Marian Sang and Michell Bartlein will review the business vital signs you need to be aware of to build financial health.
John Palmieri and Jen LeBlanc will discuss the changing nature of clients and what the numbers tell them about salon businesses now.
And, we continue to add new sessions each data. Check out the complete schedule and purchase tickets at datadrivensalon.com.
The Harper Ellis Social Media Workshop gives stylists and salon owners a repeatable social media system that puts clients in their chair.
More than 1,000 salon, spa, medspa, and fitness leaders are expected to gather in Seattle over three days in September to see AI in action, learn from one another, and leave with a plan they can use the moment they land home.
Terra Harvell, Harper Ellis Hair Co. and Strata Salon Systems are bringing stylists and salon owners into one room to grow revenue, strengthen their business, and build more wealth.
Shortly after he accepted the Torch award during the Beacon program at Premiere Orlando, Geno Stampora catches up with SALON TODAY's Stacey Soble to talk about why he's led the program for 25 years and what it's meant to him. Then, his successor Rodrick Samuels joins in to talk about his mentor, and share some of the advice he gave this year's students.
Relive the moment with this video recap of the first full day of education at Data-Driven Salon Summit 2026.
A personalized song from Easihair Pro's Lance Courtney, a certificate ceremony, and the presentation of six special awards, were just a handful of the fun activities that celebrated the 2026 SALON TODAY 200 honorees during Data-Driven Salon Summit in Austin, Texas. Relive the magic and access a photo album of official pictures.
Relive the memories of a fascinating and fun welcome day for Data-Driven Salon Summit 2027 in Austin, Texas.
After her presentation and workshop at Data-Driven Salon Summit 2026, Harper Ellis Hair Co.'s Terra Harvell chats with Nicole Johnson, sharing why she's on a mission to help owners build wealth in their business so they have a investment worth selling when they are ready to exit.
Before Phorest's Barry Quinn and Sinead Norman take the stage at Data-Driven Salon Summit, Norman swings by SALON TODAY to give us a sneak peek at their session that promises to motivate team members to grow their KPIs and clients to solidify their loyalty.
Before Harper Ellis' Terra Harvell takes the stage on Data-Driven Salon Summit she swings by to give us a sneak peek at her mainstage and breakout sessions.
Before Kristi Valenzuela takes the stage at Data-Driven Salon Summit, she stops by to talk about how salon business has a powerful opportunity to expand beyond traditional services and create meaningful revenue through high-value treatments.
More than 100 celebrities, influencers, and hair experts came together to create the two-day event in Paris in recognition of the passion, skill, and dedication of hair professionals worldwide. L’Oréal Professionnel Global Brand President Claire Le Bleis sat down with SALON TODAY to talk about the significance of the event, which also celebrated Hairdresser Appreciation Day.
Before Terra Harvell takes the stage at Data-Driven Salon Summit session, she swings by to give us a sample of what she has planned for her mainstage session and her breakout workshop.
At this year's Data-Driven, an immersive hands-on workshop will allow attendees to experiment with virtual hairstyle and hair-color try-on and AI skin analysis--and leave with credits to continue playing with the technology in their own salons.
At the SalonCentric SPARK New Partner Event in New York City on March 16, invited salon owners and stylists came together for education and discovery at the new L’Oréal Professional Academy NYC.
Before Glammatic's Ameet Kallarackal steps onto the mainstage at Data-Driven Salon Summit, May 17th, he stops by and gives us a sneak peek at his upcoming session and how his subsequent roadmap will give you a personalized road map.
At Meevo LIVE! 2025, Nashville set the backdrop while connection stole the show.
