Salon Smart is Creative HEAD magazine’s annual business networking event, providing a whole day of new insight, learning and inspiration, delivered by industry experts and innovators.
Who’s it for?
Salon and barber shop owners and managers, and their teams.
What’s the vibe?
Friendly, informal and inclusive.
Salon Smart 2024 will be packed with sessions delivering support, guidance, and fresh thinking on business, to help you build a better one. On the agenda, topics like diversifying your brand, creating an inclusive workspace, capitalising on the untapped texture market, maintaining a healthy mindset, using social media as a valuable business tool, engaging young recruits – and so much more…
Will I be fed?
Yes, and very well! There’s a delicious hot buffet on the lunch menu, plus drinks and sweet treats served during scheduled refreshment breaks.
Chris Foster, ‘The Profile Guy’
Honing a home-from-home client space
Jordan Massarella and Ben Jones, Massarella + Jones
Insights into the UK’s new tipping legislation
Mark Ronayne, Phorest
The untapped texture market
Winnie Awa, Carra
Maddi Cook, Boss Your Salon
Young recruits: how to find, train and retain them
Charlie Collinge, Collinge & Co
Neil Maclean, Neil Maclean Hair Studio
My view on… doing positive social good
Alison McRitchie, The Head Gardener
Keep calm and diversify
Samantha Cusick, Samantha Cusick London/Stā Studios
Transformative social media strategy
Sarah Louise Keane, SLK Education
Ben Lifton, Content Kweens
Tom Smith, hairstylist and trend forecaster
Monday 18 March
9.30am-5.30pm
The Chain and Buoy Store, London