At 29, Paula Malloy determined she was ready for the next step in her career and boldly sold her salon. For Malloy, the next step was Sebastian, where she worked first in sales, then as the brand’s education manager, and eventually adding the responsibility of heading the company’s research and development department. In 2003, the need to be closer to the energy of the salon and the working stylist led Malloy to her current role at JCPenney Salons. There she leads within the company’s salon division, which has 17,000 stylists, and she’s emerged as a leader within the industry as the first female president of the International Salon Spa Business Network.
Owner, Harroin Salon and Haute Hollywood Locks
Sebastian Professional Stylist Design Team Member
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Co-Owner and Stylist, Hair Base Salon & Spa, Chicago
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Assistant, Salon Gregories, Newport Beach, CA
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Owner, Gina Khan Salons, San Francisco and Walnut Creek, CA
Logics Spokesperson
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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 The Salon Association (now a branch of the PBA) 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. Even today, I hear so many of those owners’ voices as I am guiding and coaching students. Every single day my message to our 165+ students is ‘show up early, stay late, work harder and find a way to be a better version of yourself.’”
Serena Chreky might have entered the salon industry out of necessity when her husband Andre opened his own salon and asked for her help, sut she’s certainly made the most of the position. In addition to helping the salon get noticed by media, Chreky founded Salon-A-Thon, an annual 24-hour charity gala that to date has contributed $750,000 to the Children’s Hospital of Washington, D.C.; she was nominated to the board of The Salon Association, and then The Professional Beauty Association; and she established the Mid-Atlantic Salon Owners Network, a group of salon and spa owners from D.C., Maryland and Virginia who meet quarterly to discuss best business practices. And, she helped represented the U.S. in the Women Business Leaders Summit, a private outreach program supported by the U.S. State Department.
In her beginnings, Sydney Berry’s role as a stylist transitioned into the owner of Sydney’s Salon. After eight years, she decided to pursue a new role as a sales consultant for a distributorship. Today, she owns this distributorship—Salon Services and Supplies—with her husband, Miles Berry and George Learned. Berry has long been admired for helping her salon customers build successful businesses through Club 40 and her leadership role within the Professional Beauty Association has helped raise the professional bar within the industry.
Educator and Stylist, FiveToSix Salon & Spa, St. Paul, MN
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Owner, Eva Scrivo Salon, NYC
Celebrity Stylist, L’Oreal Professionel
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Freelance hairdresser and editorial stylist
Redken Global Artist
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Co-owner, Fresh Hair Studio, Southhampton, PA
Goldwell Educator/Artist
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Owner/Stylist, P!ay Hair Lounge, Simi Valley, CA
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Owner, The Color Studio, Houston, TX
International Creative Artist, Farouk Systems
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I started a new Facebook page, because I learned long ago the best way to create success is to start with something successful. Otherwise, when success happens simply because of luck, it is rarely maintained or duplicated (just look at most Lottery winners that end up poor again.) True success can be shared and even duplicated, just look at Starbucks or even martial arts to see some of the many levels of success we can transfer to others and other places.
With this in mind, the Facebook page “10 Things I’ve Learned” has started and I would like to share it with you.
Eva Scrivo, L’Oreal Professionnel Stylist and owner of Eva Scrivo Salon in New York City discusses what makes INOA Supreme so unique and special. Your client will look younger with their brightened new hair by INOA Supreme.
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Owner, The Master’s Salon, Huntsville, AL
Master Educator, Aquage
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