Dr. Pepper Pastor

Adaptive Leadership for the Beauty Industry

Empower yourself with actionable insights and strategic foresight to propel your salon business to new heights of success. Embrace continuous learning and adaptability as catalysts for sustainable growth in a dynamic industry landscape. By crafting a narrative that highlights the practical benefits and actionable insights derived from the learning content, you can effectively market the outlined strategies to potential participants or business stakeholders.

Participants can expect to:
  • Learn the tools to accept and embrace uncertainty.
  • Recognize that change is inevitable and develop flexibility for yourself and for your business.
  • Create a strategy focused on awareness and preparation.

Gordon Miller

Artificial Intelligence & the Salon: 'Tomorrow' has never been closer.

The salon industry is in the early stages of a coming technological (r)evolution, with AI at its core. Over the next few years, salons that are forward-thinking and embrace change could be transformed in several key areas, significantly enhancing their business operations, marketing efforts, and the service experiences they provide to clients. Gordon Miller, a leading voice in AI for our industry, will update us on this fast-moving technology – including where it will likely take us over the next 5-10 years.

Lisa Vann

Creating Texture
with Lisa Vann

"Curls, coils or waves. When it comes to perming hair, there’s a lot of misinformation floating around. That’s why Lisa Vann will be showing off some of her creative perming techniques that she has been using behind the chair. This is something every salon professional should know about. Her signature way at looking at hair cuts then creating the perfect texture with innovative technique’s will be shown for the first time on the intercoiffure stage.

4 techniques will be demonstrated for you live on stage with a modern finished outcome. Don’t miss out of this new introduction to permanent waving.

Stef Fox

How are you growing
your salon today?

In Chinese Astrology, 2023 is the year of the Rabbit. The rabbit is a symbol of longevity, peace, and prosperity, thus 2023 is predicted to be a year of hope! Hope manifested through actions is how you can ensure a year from now you fell great about the prosperity of 2024. What actions are you taking to create prosperity in your salon this year? Prosperity, by definition, refers to a state of being prosperous, which means bringing wealth and success. Wealth and success come from growth.

Kathleen Turpel

Kathleen's presentation style is fun and approachable, and she has the ability to make complex subjects easy to understand. You will walk away with a practical to-do list that complements the culture of your salon and will help grow your business.

Kathleen Turpel is the owner of the award-winning Imaginal Marketing Group, an agency that specializes in the fashion and beauty industries. Among her clients are some of the top salons and spas in the world. Prior to Imaginal, she worked as a marketing executive for a Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fortune 500 media company and for Neill Corporation, one of Aveda’s distributors. Kathleen has spoken at industry conferences including Serious Business, iSPA and PBA.