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SEARCHIf you and you team need some creative or business inspiration, consider creating your own in the form of an in-salon library.
Fostering advanced education in your salon or spa doesn’t always require shelling out top dollar to bring in big-name educators or send staff away to top academies. If you have a small space available in your breakroom or office, consider installing a bookshelf and start stocking the shelves with a variety of books, CDs, and DVDs that you can assign to team members or let them borrow. And, don’t forget about online classes or streaming videos you can tap into which require no shelf space at all. Before you know it…
Beth Minardi, Kris Sorbie, Marco Pelusi or Jamison Shaw Hairdressers could be showing your staff new color techniques.
Jon Reyman, Patrick McIvor, Tracey Hughes, Sam Villa or Jamie Carroll could be whipping out their shears and introducing your team to a new cut.
Prom and wedding season is just around the corner--the great Martin Parsons could be arming your team with a specialty menu of new updo offerings.
Have some team members that want to focus on male guests? Greg Zorian could be ramping up their barbering skills.
Antony Whitaker and Paul DiGrigoli can illuminate your team’s next steps to career growth.
And don’t neglect your guest services team. Kristi Valenzuela can help you inspire your front desk staff to be an active part of sales and service team.
When your team says they don’t ‘want to sell,’ McClive Learning can take your service providers through art of retailing step-by-step.
Eric Fisher can help instill customer service protocol that build a new culture for your salon and spa.
When morale gets low, Dr. Lew Losconcy, Geno Stampora and Vivienne Mackinder can give your team an extra boost of inspiration and motivation.
And, don’t forget, owners need education too:
Neill Ducoff can help you be a better leader—the No-Compromise way.
Whether you’re starting up your first salon or want the one you have to make more money, Jeff Grissler has a guidebook for you.
And, the Salon Summit team can show you how to gain and maintain control over your salon business in today’s economy through some real-world examples.
Best of all, you can find all this great education and more in one place – our new ecommerce site ShopModernSalon.com. Visit today and start stocking your salon’s shelves, then come back often as we continue to add more books, DVDs, online classes and stylist gear.
Axel and Marc Weiss are now leading Artègo USA's distribution operations, introducing a strategy focusing on strengthening relationships with salons, distributors, educators, and sales professionals.
AI, relentless change, employee burnout, economic insecurity. Individually, each presents a challenge, but together, they create what global leadership strategies Thom Dennis calls "the perfect storm." His new book, Rewilding the Corporate Mind, offers business leaders a radically different approach to leading people through today's uncertainty and division.
Timed to kick off New York Fashion Week, the intimate, artist-led event focuses on technique, storytelling, and the creative process.
JVN Hair's Summer Protection Duo is clinically proven to provide UV protection and deliver conditioning and texture to keep hair looking great all season long.
The Professional Beauty Association and Pivot Point team up to develop an ongoing study that measures the confidence of salon owners, stylists, school owners, and students.
This shared recognition celebrates the strength of industry collaboration in advancing professional mobility.
In Dubai, a salon visit isn’t an appointment. It’s a weekly routine, and clients can spend $800 to $1,400 a month on it, according to Gaurav Tripathi of MADI International. On October 6-8, 2026, the market behind those numbers opens its doors as Beautyworld Dubai marks its 30th edition at the Dubai World Trade Centre, bringing together distributors, brands, stylists and salon owners from all over the world.
Sponsored by BeautyWorld Dubai
In October, volunteers plan to walk and take the plunge during at the annual event, HairToStay Does the Bay. Find out how you can participate and support the organization that grants subsidies to cancer patients so they can receive cold cap treatments to save their hair during chemotherapy.
At Premiere Orlando 2026, SALON TODAY catches up with Easihair Pro's Angela Gilmore, who talks about why stylists lose clients who are suffering from thinning hair and hair loss, and how their new Hairlosophy line can help.
Illuminated Paths is a boxed set of 52 cards, a guidebook, and an Oracolor Wheel, a visual framework that helps readers reconnect with the qualities they want to bring into everyday life.
