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Inspiring Business Excellence – Salon Business Mentoring & Brand Development with Sue
Inspiring Business Excellence is the home of leading industry mentor and business strategist Sue Davies, providing expert mentoring, mindset coaching, and professional development for salon owners, educators, and beauty industry leaders.
With more than 25 years in the hair and beauty industry, Sue has become a trusted voice in business growth, brand visibility, and client experience improvement. Through her tailored mentoring services, she helps salon owners build stronger businesses, attract their ideal clients, and confidently become the visible face of their brand.
Sue’s signature programme, Confidently Visible!, is designed to empower business owners to overcome mindset barriers, enhance their online presence, and connect authentically with their audience. Her work focuses on improving online visibility, social media strategy, and customer experience to create sustainable business success.
Under her specialist brand, The Salon Inspector™, Sue provides client experience audits and mystery shopping services for salons and beauty businesses. This unique service analyses your client journey, from your digital footprint to your in-salon experience and delivers practical feedback with step-by-step implementation support. It’s a powerful way for salon owners to understand how clients perceive their business and identify opportunities for growth, retention, and reputation building.
Sue is also the host of the Inspiring Salon Professionals Podcast, where she and her expert guests discuss salon management, business strategy, leadership, and personal development. The podcast offers actionable insights to help salon professionals strengthen their business foundations and elevate their careers.
An active industry advocate, Sue has worked at management and board level within trade associations, contributed to National Occupational Standards updates, and served as a judge for multiple UK industry awards. She is also co-founder and former Editorial Director of Salon Education Journal and a regular contributor to leading trade publications including Scratch, Professional Beauty, Beauty Professional, and Independent Beauty Professional.
Sue’s deep understanding of the professional beauty sector allows her to provide realistic, results-driven mentoring that inspires lasting business change. Her mission is to help professionals think bigger, operate smarter, and lead with confidence in an ever-evolving industry.
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Sue Davies is a salon industry veteran and was founder and owner of Gorgeous Nail & Beauty Emporium, a successful and award-winning salon in Kent. She has been an industry educator representing several brands over time, and now shares her knowledge and experience on her podcast, Inspiring Salon Professionals.
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Featured Podcast: Salon owners - Are your 'staff' employed, self employed or disguised employees?
With yet another employment tribunal finding in favour of the ‘self employed’ worker the salon industry needs to get a rein on how we are operating our businesses.
If you have self employed workers operating in your establishment and particularly if they have moved from employed by your to self employed without any major changes it’s time to wake up and smell the proverbial coffee.
In this episode we look at what makes a self employed business and how it should be operating in your establishment. What doesn’t constitute a self employed person and what can happen when HMRC come knocking on the door. Listen Now…
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