Accomplished motivational speaker & Business professional.

A world recognised professional in the hairdressing industry, John Gillespie has established an exceptional track record in driving improved business performance, continuous market innovation and the utmost customer service standards through the management of his own business as well as positions with the globally operating brands Schwarzkopf, the Amway Corporation and L’Oréal.

Having consistently delivered engaging educational programmes, marketing seminars and staff development initiatives - performing to up to 6,000 people at a time across more than 50 different countries - John now specialises in motivational speaking tailored to an organisation’s products, market and business culture.

He offers an invaluable level of knowledge and critical business expertise to help an organisation achieve sustainable change, enhanced revenue generation and maximum customer engagement. John has recently brought USA salon chain “Phenix Salons” to the UK with a brand new concept. Listen to learn how this new concept works!

Helena Biggs began her career at Scratch magazine in 2009 and holds the position of managing editor, overseeing all editorial in the UK office, managing the editorial team and building relationships with brands and clients. She works with companies to ensure that both readers and brands benefit from content within Scratch and across its various platforms.

Helena is responsible for developing the Scratch brand and has masterfully established the Scratch Stars Awards as the nail industry event of the year, recognising talent and passion in the UK nail industry across a variety of categories. She has a multi-media background and is often asked to judge nail art and photographic competitions. As a highly regarded nail and beauty journalist, Helena has written for, and provided quotes to a number of consumer publications both nationally and internationally, and has appeared on TV shows such as Sunday Brunch and ITV’s Daybreak and been a guest on a number of industry podcasts.

June 2013 saw Helena’s first book, Nail Art: Inspiring designs by the world’s leading nail technicians, published by Arcturus Publishing., reaching the top of the best-seller list in beauty on Amazon a week after launch. It sold over 100,000 copies in the first six weeks and a second book followed a year later; Nail Style: Amazing designs by the world’s leading nail techs. A third tome, Nail Art Projects, was published in July 2015.

Named a finalist in the B2B Beauty Journalist of the Year category in the Fashion & Beauty Monitor Awards 2014 and again in 2015, Helena’s unwavering enthusiasm for the industry is infectious. She is a member of the PHAB Service Stars Advisory Board and is the point of contact for editorial queries, advertising, brand promotion and development/campaigns via Scratch‘s various platforms.

Layla is the Founder and Managing Director of The Creative Beauty Group, Lipnv No Needle Filler and of late, The Beauty Boss Academy.

Layla has been in the beauty industry for over 20 years and after owning her salon for 9 years, decided to go into training, distribution and more

recently, mentorship.

Layla's passion really lies in educating the next wave of beauty professionals in how to run an incredible beauty business, hit new goals

year on year and generate more income than ever before.

I wanted to share with you something I teach a lot. Creating freedom within your business. This is a process and it takes time to get it right. But I wanted to share with you my top 3 tips to starting this journey!

Marie-Louise is an Award Winning salon owner, trainer, HABIA Industry Expert, Guild News Writer and internationally published manicurist represented by Caren Agency.

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She has worked within the beauty industry for almost 30 years in a variety of roles covering practical hands on therapies, sales, training and business development.

Her work has been featured in elite publications including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Grazia, L'Officiel, Esquire, POP and Dazed and she has worked on advertising campaigns for Gucci, Burberry, Zara, Bottletoppers, Save The Duck, Edward Crutchley, Net-A-Porter, Rosie Assoulin, The Body Shop, Ciate and Lottie London.

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In addition to this, Marie-Louise has worked on runway shows in London, Paris and Milan for Edward Crutchley, Kolchagov Barba, Stella Jean, Gilberto Calzolari, Osman, Tiziano Guardini, Shuting Qiu, Wesley Harriott, Renata Brenha, Sabirah Official and Yuhan Wang as well as being the Lead Manicurist for a special Michael Kors event.

Michelle Rath owns Sinful Lashes. An international lash brand and training academy founded in 2012.

Michelle is also the Owner/Producer of The Hollywood Lash Conference. A star studded lash conference bringing together the best educators from around the world for a weekend of learning, networking and playing together. We hold it at the beautiful Hilton Hotel that is adjacent to Universal Studios-Universal City Walk. It’s an amazing experience to elevate your lash business. And she also produces The Lash Sampler an in-depth conference for trainers held on the beautiful island of Hawaii.

She a dedicated lash artist who is passionate about this industry. She had trained over 5,000’s artists from around the globe, Japan, London, Scotland, Lithuania to name a few.

She started her career in a 10x10 room them moved into a 2,000 sqft lash bar with 6 artists seeing a 160 artists a week to owning corporate offices in one location and a academy/retail store in another. She has been featured in magazines, books and TV.

She has an accredited online lash academy and a team national/International trainers who help other artists who are leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

She built her business in a way that Allows her to live and run her business 75% on the island of Kauai. She wants to help other artists live the life of their dreams.

www.Sinfullashes.com

Facebook:SinfulLashesLA

Instagram: sinful_lashes

Clubhouse: sinfullashes

Marta Zaczkowska is an international waxing expert, teaching other professionals how to become successful waxing specialists, increase profit and build a successful waxing business. Marta has over 16 years of combined experience specialising in intimate hair removal and pregnancy waxing. She is the owner of Multi Award winning Waxing Specialist salon and Academy in London and also advises other salon owners at Marta Zaczkowska Consultancy. Marta recognises various challenges waxing specialists and business owners are facing, and as a dedicated educator, she created the ‘Free 5 Day Challenge for Waxing Professionals’ as well as a tool called ‘The Waxing Audit’ to support specialists in their professional and financial growth. Marta has conducted multiple webinars and spoken at conferences. She is also a regular contributor for trade and press articles. She is a co-writer of ‘Beauty and The Best” book published at the beginning of 2021. Marta Zaczkowska

Director&CEO

Waxing Specialist Ltd.

www.waxingspecialist.co.uk

www.pregnancywaxing.co.uk

www.martazaczkowska.com

- Winner “Best Waxing Beauty Specialist - London, UK Enterprise Awards 2021

- Winner “Waxing Specialists of the Year” London & South East England Prestige Awards 2021

- Winner “Best Pregnancy Waxing Specialists - London, LUX Health, Beauty and Wellness Awards. 2021

- Finalist “Industry Expert supporting people working in beauty”, BABTAC Inspiring Beauty Awards, 2021

Hellen has enjoyed a rich and varied career in salon management, culminating in her co-founding the largest and highest grossing independent salon in the UK. Not only is she regularly featured on TV and in the media commenting as the sector’s business guru, but she has been instrumental for the Hairdressing Industry having a voice at Government level.

An accomplished author, lecturer and educator for the sector Hellen’s passion for the hairdressing industry has seen her being an integral part of The Hairdressers Charity since 2005 as Past President, Trustee and Director and in her latest role as Vice President. Her regular must-read column for Professional Beauty Magazine has been taking the temperature of the beauty industry for over 10 years. Hellen is also the inaugural Beauty Ambassador for NHBF (National Hair & Beauty Federation) and past Chairman of both the Fellowship for British Hairdressing and Trailblazers, a government initiative to recommend the framework of Apprenticeships in the sector.

Hellen is actively involved in women entrepreneurs in her role as Vice President of BAWE (British Association of Women Entrepreneurs) and is the latest recipient of FCEM Monidal UK’s BAWE award for her voluntary work for the organisation, one of only 22 women ever to have received such an honour. Hellen has successfully published 3 textbooks on hair and beauty salon management for City & Guilds in her Ultimate Salon Management Series and is regularly featured as a guest speaker at a host of industry events.

Jules White is an awards winning international sales consultant with over 30 years of business and sales experience. Working in many dif- ferent sectors selling everything from baby products to stainless steel to Yellow Pages she has also experienced every job role within sales, from telesales through to Sales Director and has a wonderful breadth of knowledge and experience to bring to her work.

She also secured investment from Peter Jones in the BBC’s Dragons’ Den, which is the ultimate pitch to win!

Her passion and mission is to bring a new outlook and perception to sales in the modern business age we live in, which will help you to truly be unique.

Her ‘Live it, Love it, Sell it’ entrepreneur programme is also a book, and now the creation of UHP - Unique Human Proposition® takes it up a gear to deliver this effective methodology to the corporate market too.

Her style is passionate, inclusive and she immerses herself fully into your business in order to work as part of your team.

Jules’ ultimate aim is to make sure you create an unparalleled sales ex- perience for all of your customers through you and your unique people.

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