People-first strategy for salons, spa's,

and beauty-based business owners.

GROW AS A LEADER

Consulting


Today’s leaders are navigating more complexity than ever. Shifting workforce expectations, tighter retention, higher demand for leadership, and the constant pressure to grow while holding everything together.

Consulting with Stef gives you clarity, direction, and a strategic partner who understands the service-based world from every angle: salon owner, educator, brand consultant, and senior leader inside a Fortune 500 beauty company. Her work blends industry experience with organizational leadership research to help businesses grow through people, not pressure.

Whether you lead a small team or guide an entire national brand, consulting is where we solve the people side of your business so growth becomes sustainable, not overwhelming.

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Choose Your Path

For Small Businesses & Salons

Leadership, hiring, culture, performance, and team systems for service-based businesses.

For Brands & Manufacturers

Strategic consulting rooted in Fortune 500 leadership experience, field team development, sales strategy, education strategy, and workforce insights.

Choose Your Path

For Small Businesses & Salons

Leadership, hiring, culture, performance, and team systems for service-based businesses.

For Brands & Manufacturers

Strategic consulting rooted in Fortune 500 leadership experience, field team development, sales strategy, education strategy, and workforce insights.

Why Work With Stef


  • 20+ years in professional beauty
  • Leadership experience inside a global Fortune 500 brand
  • Founder of Talent Match™
  • Consultant to top salon groups and global manufacturers
  • Bachelor’s in Marketing, Master’s in Business
  • Doctoral candidate in Organizational Leadership
  • Recipient of Intercoiffure’s Sans Bias Award

When your people grow, your business grows.
And you don’t have to navigate that alone.

START THE CONVERSATION

Consulting


Today’s leaders are navigating more complexity than ever. Shifting workforce expectations, tighter retention, higher demand for leadership, and the constant pressure to grow while holding everything together.

Consulting with Stef gives you clarity, direction, and a strategic partner who understands the service-based world from every angle: salon owner, educator, brand consultant, and senior leader inside a Fortune 500 beauty company. Her work blends industry experience with organizational leadership research to help businesses grow through people, not pressure.

Whether you lead a small team or guide an entire national brand, consulting is where we solve the people side of your business so growth becomes sustainable, not overwhelming.

Choose Your Path


Salons, Spa's, and Beauty Based Businesses

Leadership development, team culture, and ownership-building for the leader who is done carrying everything. Ready to stop being the bottleneck and start leading differently. Want to learn more?

Enterprise & Brand Consulting

Strategic consulting rooted in Fortune 500 leadership experience, for global and national brands that need field team development, leadership strategy, and workforce insights that actually move the needle.

Why Work With Stef


  • Mom, founder, and former Fortune 500 executive
  • Built and led teams from the ground up and at scale
  • Doctoral candidate in Organizational Leadership
  • Research-backed frameworks built for real, people-driven businesses
  • Thousands of leaders trained and hundreds of stages across the U.S.
  • Recipient of Intercoiffure's Sans Bias Award
  • A leadership approach rooted in faith, purpose, and what actually works
  • You were called to both your business and your life. I'm here to help you build the leadership that makes both possible.

Clients love Stef!


Scott Miller salon and talent match

" Stef has the uncanny ability to understand your businesses needs and then set a plan for successful execution. We can confidently say that she played a significant role in helping us save our business.

She goes above and beyond for the team and truly cares about the success of our business.  In just the first two years we hired 56 stylists working with Stef.

- Helen Miller (Rochester, NY)

"Stef has been a resource, an encourager, a cheerleader of our brand, and her work with us has helped modernize our recruiting efforts and propel them to reach our goals.

We attribute an influx of quality candidates and new guests to these initiatives.

- Debra Penzone (Columbus, OH)

Lucas Council Van Michael salons work with Talent Match

"We’re a highly successful 40-year-old brand. We already have robust systems in place and the financial flexibility to have a full-time recruiter. It takes an exceptional consultant to move the needle for a salon of our size. She was able to breathe new life into old systems and show us what was no longer working and since starting our work we have hired 55 interns."

- Lucas Council (Atlanta, GA)