| Leadership Team
Summit Salon Business Center and its consulting division, Summit Salon Consulting Group, is an international company that consists of a Senior Leadership Team, shareholders and 50+ Consultants.
Our leadership team comprises individuals who have diverse but complementary skills and substantial collective experience and background in the beauty industry. As a team and as individuals, we dedicate ourselves to enabling and supporting our consultants to deliver exemplary service and create value for our clients.
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Business Advisor |
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Pat Parenty
President of L'Oreal USA's Professional Products Division
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President |
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Peter Mahoney
President, Summit Salon Business Center |
Peter brings his wealth of experience and knowledge from Salon Consultants International Inc. and as the proud owner of 25 full service salons, a day spa and training facility to Summit Salon Business Center. Peter has been successfully coaching and educating distributor sales consultants, salon owners and salon teams throughout North America on modern day philosophies of leadership and communication.
Accredited with the Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award, Peter shares his passion for improving the quality of life within the salon industry with hundreds of salons in Canada and the U.S. each year. Peter's down to earth, pragmatic approach combined with his ability of transforming potential into reality has gained him a reputation as one of the most effective trainers in the salon industry today. |
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Board Members |
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Glenn Baker |
For more than 20 years, Glenn Baker has been dedicated to developing winning business strategies for salon professionals.
As Vice President and Partner with the Head Shoppe Co. Ltd. group of salons, Glenn has been integral in growing sales and improving operations. Glenn is also a stockholder, board member and serves as the Managing Director of Summit Salon Business Center’s Eastern Division.
Glenn educates distributors, salon owners and stylists throughout Canada and the United States. His enthusiasm for helping others is undeniable as he teaches principles guaranteed to help salons face the challenges of today's ever changing market.
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Heather Bagby |
Heather is the Director of Communication for Summit Salon Business Center and serves as a consultant for Summit Salon Consulting Group. Heather's enthusiasm and passion for organizational development is instrumental in leading salons to consistently deliver management solutions that drive growth and achieve organizational effectiveness.
Prior to joining SSBC, Heather was an Association Executive with SmithBucklin Corporation, the world's largest association management firm serving as the Executive Director for several associations. Heather currently owns a salon, a cosmetology school and is a stockholder in Summit Salon Business Center.
Heather is a graduate of Auburn University with degrees in public relations and journalism and holds a certificate in association management from DePaul University. |
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Michael Cole |
Michael Cole's track record in the salon industry has been absolutely phenomenal. He has accumulated over 30 years experience as a stylist, manager, executive chain director and multiple salon owner. For the last 20 years, Michael has been the founder and president of Salon Development Corporation, an international company specializing in salon business training.
He is a world-renowned recipient of numerous awards for his contributions in helping tens of thousands of salon professionals transform their businesses. The key to Michael's success is his unique ability to observe current and future business trends and translate them into systems and methods by which salons achieve dramatic growth.
Michael is a stockholder and board member of Summit Salon Business Center.
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Dave Kirby |
Since entering the salon industry in 1983, Dave has worn the hats of stylist, manager, business owner, educator and salon management consultant. He was an educator and consultant with Michael Cole's Salon Development Corporation for five years.
Dave joined KRS Consulting Group in 2002 and was named the company's "Consultant of the Year" in 2003. Prior to the KRS and SSBC merger, Dave served as President and CEO of KRS Consulting Group.
Dave is a stockholder, board member and serves as the Managing Director of Summit Salon Business Center's Western Division. |
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Randy Kunkel |
Randy Kunkel has over 30 years experience as a stylist, manager and multiple salon owner. Randy, along with his wife Sharon, founded KRS Consulting Group in 1993 to focus on issues related specifically to salon management and ownership.
Randy is stockholder and board member of Summit Salon Business Center leading a team of nearly 50 consultants along the front lines of innovative salon training and development. Hundreds of salons, spas and cosmetology schools have experienced utterly astounding improvement in sales, profits and teamwork thanks to Randy's guidance.
They are a testament to his expertise and desire to help others succeed. From complex ownership issues to the front desk, Randy has not only seen it all, he's helped others overcome it all. |
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Sharon Kunkel |
Sharon is the Director of Operations for Summit Salon Business Center. She is the co-founder of KRS Consulting, and is a stockholder and board member of Summit Salon Business Center.
Sharon is the behind the scenes traffic controller. Any questions regarding Summit Salon Consulting Group or the Summit Salon Business Center can be answered by Sharon. |
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Gavin Salsbery |
Gavin Salsbery grew up in the salon and spa industry in Indiana. After graduating from Indiana University, Gavin moved to California to work for the world's first internet broadcast company, loadmedia, in Hollywood. Following his stint in California, Gavin moved back to Indiana to write and produce cable television commercials throughout the midwest for Insight Communications. It wasn't long before he got back into the salon industry and began consulting for KRS in 2003.
His expertise in business and marketing has helped grow sales and profits for small studio salons to major multi-million dollar salons and spas. Gavin also consults salon and spa organizations on corporate organization and leadership. He is a stockholder and board member of Summit Salon Business Center and serves as a Team Leader and consultant for Summit Salon Consulting Group.
He truly loves all aspects of the salon and spa industry and will continue to focus on helping one person at a time attempt to reach the summit in the beauty industry. |
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Kristi Valenzuela |
Kristi Valenzuela is the founder and owner of Crystal Focus Coaching, Inc., a salon success company founded in 1993 focusing on "people skills for profitability." Her current efforts in offering internet education and telephone seminars for the salon industry, has quickly gained global recognition.
As an in-demand international main stage business motivational speaker for REDKEN, she has been featured in several REDKEN videos, looked to as an expert in nearly every salon industry magazine, and her audios and books have been sold to salon professionals in 12 different countries.
Kristi remains committed to the authenticity of the "real world" by coaching and mentoring individual service providers, and conquering the challenges of independent salon owners through her work as an active consultant for Summit Salon Consulting Group. She is also a stockholder and board member of Summit Salon Business Center. |
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Stockholders |
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Kimberli Bennett |
Having grown up in the salon industry, Kimberli Bennett understands all aspects of owning a salon company.
Kimberli became a hairstylist in 1987 and joined her family as the third generation in the salon companies that they owned in Indiana. In February of 2002, Kimberli stepped out from behind the chair and joined KRS Consulting as a full time consultant.
She is a stockholder of Summit Salon Business Center as well as a Team Leader and consultant for Summit Salon Consulting Group. She now takes part in growing consultants as well as salon professionals.
Kimberli feels a great deal of pride toward the salon professionals she has had the opportunity to grow through KRS systems. Her biggest accomplishment is knowing she has had a part in growing service providers as well as salon owners, and that through their willingness to grow they now experience more choices in life and bigger opportunities. |
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Mary Clare Lokken |
Mary Lokken loves to teach!
Teaching has been her life: first as a high school teacher, then as a teacher in her family's cosmetology school, and now as a teacher of salon owners, school owners and distributor sales consultants.
After 25 years in education and a lifetime in her family's beauty business, Mary still loves to show people how to grow as leaders and how to grow the next generation of salon professionals. |
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Sharon Meier |
Sharon Meier is a stockholder of Summit Salon Business Center and serves as a consultant for Summit Salon Consulting Group. Sharon was named 2005 KRS Consultant of the Year. She put in her time as a stylist for 25 years. For ten of those years, she was a performing artist with Redken NYC.
Throughout out the years, Sharon has also owned a salon, rented a booth, worked for someone else and in her last position, managed a 4000-square-foot day spa for the Orlando Magic workout facility. It was there that she found KRS and implemented the Summit system.
The subsequent success inspired her to join the team as a consultant, where she spends her time helping other salons realize their dreams. |
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Michael Nikolas |
Michael Nikolas is a stockholder for Summit Salon Business Center and a Team Leader and consultant for Summit Salon Consulting Group who helps salons and spas achieve growth and profitability through working with owners and their staff with the Summit systems through gentle, kind and on-target delivery.
Prior to becoming a consultant for Summit Salon Consulting Group, Michael taught in a Beauty Academy in South Dakota, later moving to Minneapolis and to work in a salon, He then became District Manager of several salons while teaching interpersonal skills to hundreds of service providers. From there he opened his own salon in 1988. A few years after opening his first salon he bought a building and designed a new salon and spa, which he grew to over 40 staff members. Michael was introduced to the SSBC program and experienced great success with it. He later went to work for SSCG and took what he learned and applied it with salon owners and their staff, helping them to achieve their own successes.
Michael currently works with salons that are producing $20,000.00 a month to over $400,000.00 per month in gross revenues.
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Jane Salsbery-Gibson |
Jane Salsbery-Gibson is a consultant for Summit Salon Consulting Group who helps salons and spas to learn systems and leadership skills to grow their companies.
Prior to becoming a consultant, salon and school owner, Jane spent 25 years salon/spa owner.
After a successful career growing service providers, growing owners and salon leaders, Jane now coaches other people to achieve the same success.
Jane lives in Kokomo, IN and is a stockholder in Summit Salon Business Center, the owner of Solutions Day Spa, and the owner of The Salon Professional Academy. Jane was awarded the 2003 KRS Positive Mental Attitude Award and the 2004 KRS Consultant of the Year award. Jane has been successfully coaching and mentoring salons throughout the US for the last 10 years and is still passionate about her work.
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