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The association credits Provenzano’s leadership as helping shape salon owner events and education available each year through America’s Beauty Show Back in Naperville, she’s shaping a strong business she eventually plans to pass down to her two sons and their families.
She started out as an assistant and gradually worked up the company’s ladder, as a stylist, designer, director, senior director; creative director, vice president of training, senior vice president, then president.
PATRICIA OWEN’S BEAUTY CAREER started behind the counter as an educator and make-up artist for Estee Lauder cosmetics. She later became an entrepreneur by opening FACES, as a small ladies retail boutique on Hilton Head Island, which transformed over the years into an award-winning day spa.
VERY SOON AFTER taking her first job as an esthetician, Debra Neill Baker realized she had too much energy to be in a quiet room with one client at a time. She found herself carefully observed the relationship between the hairdresser and the client and soon made it her personal mission to help the salon and the stylist understand the power and influence they have through their clients.
AT THE AGE OF 29, Paula Malloy determined she was ready for the next step in her career and boldly sold her salon.
LYNELLE LYNCH’S FORAY into the professional beauty arena was by chance. In fact, after college, her passion for fashion led her to a 15-year career with Saks Fifth Avenue where she served as general manager for multiple stores across Southern California.
IN 1993, JILL KOHLER jumped into the beauty industry as a marketing coordinator at Nexxus, but it was her next job as executive director of TSA that she credits with leading her to open her own cosmetology school. “My debt of gratitude is to the hundreds of intelligent salon and spa owners who pushed me, helped me and cajoled me to do things I never thought was possible
WITH A COSMETOLOGY LICENSE in hand, Sara Jones blazed a career path that’s brought her to lead Joico/ISO, one of the most dynamic manufacturers in industry.
AFTER TAKING TURNS at being a stylist then a salon owner, Sydney Berry ‘decided to pursue a new role as a sales consultant for a distributor. Today, she owns that distributorship along with her husband Miles Berry and their business partner George Learned Berry has long been admired for her perseverance in encouraging her salon customers to network with one another and share best practices, and for her leadership role within the professional beauty industry to raise the bar for all.
WOMEN REPRESENTING VARIOUS POSITIONS IN THE INDUSTRY SHARE THEIR LESSONS LEARNED, THEIR SMARTEST MOVES AND THEIR BEST ADVICE FOR ANY WOMAN LAUNCHING A BEAUTY CAREER:
WITH ALL THE OTHER pressing concerns of running a salon, housekeeping procedures can go to the bottom of the list. Not so for Denise Provenzano, owner of live high-end full-service salons in suburban Chicago. When you enter one of her Zano Salon & Day Spa locations, even the unforgiving morning sunlight reveals shelves that sparkle with nary a dust mote in sight. Denise has engaged her team in an initiative that truly takes clean to a new level.
Tabatha Coffey was raised within strip clubs in a broken family and how that experience prepared her to become the strong, self-assured businesswoman she is today. She explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of her life in a funny, yet honest fashion.
How do you find great stylists to work in your salon? My answer is always the same:
An annual holiday celebration can build morale, so now is the time to start planning your gathering to reward and celebrate your hard-working staff:
This month we celebrate the thousands of talented, fierce, passionate, visionary and leading women in our industry.
One of the salon’s most valuable sources for education, business, marketing and product advice is the Distributor Sales Consultant (DSC). This month Salon Today asks a salon owner, a distributor and a manufacturer: How do you get the most from your DSC?
After achieving a level of success within their own markets, these salons are sharing their experience by teaching others what they know best.
