Janet M. D'Angelo, M.Ed., is a Marketing & Public Relations consultant specializing in the health, beauty and wellness industry. She works with small businesses and corporations to develop all facets of marketing and business communications, including advertising and promotional materials, presentations, instruction manuals, education and public relations programs.
A respected educator and author (and an esthetician), she has contributed to Milady’s Standard Comprehensive Training for Estheticians and Milady’s Standard: Fundamentals for Estheticians textbooks, educational CD-ROM and training videos for skin care. Ms. D’Angelo also conducts seminars on marketing and business communications topics and has written numerous articles for consumer and trade publications.
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Douglas Preston is among the spa industry’s most influential business leaders. His leadership vision was instrumental in making his former business, Preston Wynne Day Spa in Saratoga, California, nationally known for its innovative operations and superlative customer service systems. Twice capturing Modern Salon Magazine’s “Salon of the Year” award, and multiple winner of Spa Management Journal’s “Spa of the Year” award, Preston Wynne’s success has become the spirit of his present enterprise, Preston Incorporated, an internationally acclaimed business improvement company and private label skin care product manufacturer. The company’s product collection is quickly becoming the preferred source for progressive aestheticians today.
Mr. Preston is a frequent lecturer in the spa industry, a sought-after motivational speaker and trainer, and the author of numerous articles for spa and aesthetics professional publications. He is regarded as a top expert in the industry and has been featured on CNN as well as in Spa Management Journal, and USA Today. He serves as editorial advisor to several successful trade magazines. Mr. Preston currently serves on the Day Spa Association Board, is the past President of Aesthetics International Association (AIA) and a member of the Australian Spa Association (ASpa) and NCEA. As a business coach he has helped numerous spa operators in the United States and abroad achieve high levels of efficiency and profitability. Preston’s spa management seminars are conducted internationally to a wide audience, including operators and managers within the rapidly growing medispa industry.
Douglas Preston can be reached by email at douglas@prestoninc.net
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Joanne Liuzzo, born in Portland , Maine , spent her childhood on the Island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy , Canada , where her family roots began. Whereas island living started her path of a healthy lifestyle, ocean-side living brought fish as the main dish and seaweed for snacks. The method of travel was walking; tobacco and alcohol were non-existent. Living on the small island, sharing and giving were a way of life necessary for survival. The best advice was given by her grandfather: “You can have anything you want in life. It depends how much you want it and what you are willing to sacrifice to achieve it.”
Her teens brought her to city life in Cleveland , Ohio . Finishing her high school years, finances did not provide for college, so job searching began. Her first experience was a bath house offering sulfur baths for the relief of pain. Using sulfur steam, hot towel application and massage by a mechanical device, she cared for those seeking relief. On the horizon, fitness centers opened in Cleveland - Slenderella and Silhouette. Being healthy and fit, she trained and became a trainee teaching mat exercise classes and equipment use. She realized in life that she would need a license and have a career. Being creative and artistic, modeling was looked upon, but was not affordable. The love of design and creativity brought her to cosmetology school where modeling hair styles in competition gave her confidence and style. Striving to be the best and to be a leader was her goal from early on.
Marrying a man with the same ideals, their future began in the beauty field. She gave birth to an only child and continued her career. Purchasing old buildings, the creating and designing of salons began. A large century building, a hotel from 1840, would allow space to provide all the services with which she had experience. Under one roof, a beauty mall was created – with exercise, skin, body, hair, and nail care.
The first spa was born in Cleveland . With this came many television appearances, seminars, demonstrations, and the need for guests to stay. A hotel and restaurant were added along with other buildings renovated, totaling seven spas, two hotels, an Inn in Canada , and three restaurants. The growth included purchasing apartments, single housing, and office buildings and land surrounding the properties for future expansion.
Recognition nationally and internationally with many awards was granted, including Bazaar, Spa Magazine, Shape, Mademoiselle, and Conde Nast 's list of the top ten U.S. spas and Day Spa 's # 1 Day Spa . Ongoing travel and study keep her on the cutting edge, always first, always a leader. Recognition inside the spa business awarded her the Rainmaker in Cleveland , for women in business who make a difference.
Continuing to be a leader in the spa industry, Joanne joined hands with an affiliation of the medical field, a health spa facility, and also contracts with Cleveland Clinic, University, and Akron General hospitals. Med Spa was born, adding complimentary alternative medicine. With stress so prominent, the need for meditation, yoga, and an environment for solitude led to the development of the Sanctuary, for mind, body, and spirit, catering to groups, corporate meetings, and spa parties. The Sanctuary and Med Spa have now combined their efforts to bring health and wellness to their guests.
Joanne's energy, spirit, her goal to be the best, with knowledge, experience, and dedication, have brought and bring respect, recognition, where thousands seeking a healthy lifestyle find solitude while feeling and looking great. With her experience and under her guidance, the staff of four hundred and the countless guests count on and depend on her expertise daily.
Her business motto is: Time. The time to eat is when one is hungry. The time to sleep is when one is tired. The time to relax is when one's job is done. Time should not be watched, but embraced.
Being a role model in the industry, success has been achieved through dedication, long hours, honesty, caring, understanding, giving, and integrity. Joanne has trained her managers and staff to follow the path, when opportunity knocks, open the door. info@Marios-spa.com
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Linda-Anne Kahn is the Director and founder of Beauty Kliniek Aromatherapy Day Spa and Wellness Center, the most complete Health and Beauty and Wellness Center in Southern California. Linda-Anne is an internationally trained beauty therapist, aromatherapist, holistic health practitioner, and ‘Lymphedema therapist’. She has studied Chinese medicine, iridology, nutrition, thalassotherapy, romatherapy, Color therapy, skin care and various forms of massage.
Linda-Anne is Board Certified as an Internationally recognized Cidesco Diplomate. She is certified as a clinical aromatherapist, and has studied aromatherapy with many eminent French Doctors. She holds an international certification as a Manual Lymph Drainage therapist and ‘Lymphedema’ specialist from the Dr Vodder School in Austria, the Foldi School in Germany, and from Drs. Judith and John Casley-Smith in Australia. She is nationally certified as a Lymphedema therapist by the Lympholgy Association of North America LANA. She is past vice president of NAVALT (North American Vodder therapists) as well as editor of NAVALT news.
Linda-Anne came to the United States with her husband and family in 1980 and recognized the need for excellent skin and body care. With a vision and a dream she opened a small 400 square foot salon with $2000. She has remained totally committed to the Day Spa Industry and was one of the country’s first day spas.
She has been a pioneer in the field and began doing aromatherapy treatments, manual lymph drainage and hydrotherapy when these modalities were virtually unknown in the United States. Linda-Anne has had a long-standing philosophy of a holistic approach and has been committed to health and well-being of the body, mind and spirit. The spa has expanded 5 times over the years to become the 11,000 square foot Day Spa & Wellness Center it is today.
Recognizing the need for people to be educated about “wellness”, Linda-Anne continued to set trends in the field and expanded in 1999 to become a Wellness Center. Clients and patients can be treated by several holistic practitioners, individually or as part of several dynamic wellness programs. A team of esthetic laser nurses provide medical laser treatments.
Beauty Kliniek was voted “Best Day Spa in San Diego” and “Best Massage in San Diego “ in 2003. Linda-Anne was featured as business person of the year by a Channel 8 television station several years ago.
Linda-Anne has always set very high standards and personally hired all employees, selecting them for their dedication to their work as well as their skills.
Her passion for aromatherapy led her to introduce aromatherapy into almost all the treatments at the spa. The spa features an aromatherapy blending bar and specializes in the clinical application and custom blending of essential oils.
Linda-Anne has become recognized as a leading authority in the health beauty and wellness fields. She has lectured internationally, and has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows. She lectures regularly for nurses, breast cancer survivors, estheticians and massage therapists. She is a sought after speaker at many skincare, spa, lymphedema and aromatherapy conventions and events. She is quoted and written about in many professional magazines.
Linda-Anne works with many cancer survivors, as well as cancer patients and lectures to breast cancer support groups, American Cancer Association and other organizations. Beauty Kliniek hosts cancer survivor events at the spa for the Parish Foundation, a foundation that supports cancer patients and siblings or children of cancer patients.
She is a member of the International Federation of Aromatherapists (IFA), North American Vodder Lymphatic Therapists (NAVALT), National American Holistic Aromatherapists (NAHA), Esthetics America, National Cosmetology Association (NCA), CIDESCO International, Associated Bodywork & Massage Professional (ABMP),
The Salon Association (TSA) and is on the Advisory Board of the Scripps Breast Care Center. She was one of the first members of the Day Spa Association.
Linda-Anne still works at her spa treating clients and lymphedema patients, as well as teaching aromatherapy at her training center Avedana Holistic Training Institute and the Natural Healing Institute in Encinitas. info@beautykliniek.com
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Judy Hohn started Serenity, The Rejuvenating Day Spa in 1993. She did not have a background in spa, but as part owner of an employee benefits and actuarial consulting firm, she was helping her clients deal with high health care costs in the early eighties. In that process, she read about how Europeans use spas as prevention. In her travels for her job, she visited various spas across the United States and kept thinking it would be great if there were places like that in Kansas City. This little voice said, “Why don’t you do it, Judy” After five years of researching the idea and putting it aside it still and it still keeping to popp back up, she decided to go ahead and try her hand at a day spa. Her approach has been as a consumer of the services, feeling that since she was such a big believer and user of spa services, she knew something about what people were looking for.
She hired Spa Technologies International to help her with the spa part and the rest is history. Her spa started at 980 square feet and is now 2600 square feet. Over the years, Judy has worked hard to make the spa a part of the business community. She has been recognized as the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year in 2000, Kansas Woman Owned Business of the Year in 2002, named one of the Top 25 Business Women in Kansas City, one of the top 25 companies with under 25 employees and named best day spa by one of the local publications. She has served on numerous boards and participates in many charitable events.
The motto the spa uses is the Henry David Thoreau quote, ”To effect the quality of the day is the highest of arts.” Judy is thrilled to be a part of the spa industry. She loves to introduce new clients to the therapeutic benefits of spa services. As a business owner, she feels it is very important to support the industry you are a part of. Serenity, The Rejuvenating Day Spa belongs to ISPA and the Day Spa Association. JmHohn@hotmail.com
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President of Cossini Corporation, Consultant and Spa Supplier to the Industry, located in sunny Miami, FL. Cossini Corporation received an excellent reception from the industry due to German’s weekly newsletters on Spa Management, Revenue, Operations, Sanitation, Retail and Sales & Marketing topics that are extremely sought by Spa Directors, Aestheticians, Licensed Massage Therapists, Nurses and Doctors.
Cossini Corporation has an ample variety of products for the industry from all sizes and colors of towels, robes, slippers, headbands and spa uniforms; a full line of disposable underwear and accessories from bikinis to estheticians wipes, to disposable fitted bed sheets, as well as Dead Sea Salts and Muds. The company is the exclusive distributors of Ecomaat, which are pure, organic & natural essential oils from Bulgaria; exfoliating gloves, cosmetics puff and sponges and a lot more. Cossini Corporation believes in promoting disadvantage people by bringing them back into the economic stream.
German Dulanto has chosen a non-profit organization in Illinois which produces hand made soaps of the best quality, and through training, rehabilitating enable to bring back into the economic stream single mothers, homeless, drug addicted and abused women. Cossini Corporation buys product from this organization for resale to the spa Industry.
His last 25 years experience in Spa Management has prompted him to create the Rapport Series, a detailed questionnaire in three parts. #1- is for start-up spas owners to define what exactly they should do with their own knowledge, associates and tools; this Rapport helps visualize a road map to follow towards the Business Plan Development; #2 – is for spas already open, but do find they lack organization; to determine why their bottom line is being affected by something in their structure; #3 - is for successful spas with a good client base, personal and retail operation but their revenue is minimized by their high cost structure. These three creative Rapport Series have been an instant success. German Dulanto not only manages his organization, but has accomplished cost savings in the four digit dollar figure for most of his clients that have requested the Rapport Series. He is a results-oriented individual, driven by the success of his customers. His motto: “We do not want your money, we want your business”.
German Dulanto, was nominated and awarded the “New Entrepreneur of the Year 2003” by the Minority Business Development Center, a program of the Department of Commerce. He is a writer and speaker at conferences and seminars; he writes for Dermasthetic, a virtual magazine in Spanish sought by the Hispanic spa community. He resides in Aventura, FL with wife Mercedes and 2 daughters and a son for 11 years, after living in Redondo Beach, CA. He completed his professional studies in England, where he obtained his degrees in textiles and management from Bromley School of Management. info@cossini.com
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