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This shared recognition celebrates the strength of industry collaboration in advancing professional mobility.
by Stacey Soble
Phorest's UPLift Event Designed to Inspire Salons to Get Ready for 2021
Raise your game, raise your team, raise your resilience.
December 17, 2020
2 min to read
Uplift! Powered by Phorest is the salon owner’s kickstart to 2021. The event will featuring exclusive reveals of product features that will get your team members into peak performance for the year ahead, plus interactive sessions to let owners and managers know what’s next in salon technology. The event will be held Monday, January 25 from 1 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. EST.
This isn’t your average online conference. Expect high production standards, interactive sessions and an awesome guest speaker with a powerful story to tell--viewers will leave this three-hour virtural event feeling inspired and motivated to make 2021 the best year yet.
Guest Speaker Tommy Caldwell is a professional climber and author. He is widely recognized for his cutting-edge and record-breaking ascents on the seemingly impossible granite walls of Yosemite Valley. In 2015, for 19 days Tommy and Kevin Jorgeson climbed 3,000 feet up the Dawn Wall, a blank face on Yosemite’s monolithic El Capitan and the hardest big-wall rock climb in the world. Their story was covered by every major news outlet, including The New York Times, National Geographic, TIME, ABC, CNN and ESPN. A 2018 award-winning film, The Dawn Wall, was based on their accomplishment, and the feat even caught the attention of President Barack Obama, who remarked, “You remind us that anything is possible.”
Speaking live to salon owners & their teams across the US & Canada, Caldwell will share lessons in cultivating perseverance & resilience, strength under stress, teamwork & purpose as intrinsic motivation.
Early Bird Offer: Tickets start from $25 per ticket but if you purchase in December you can get 2 for the price of 1 - the perfect holiday gift for your team! Purchase tickets here.
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