People-first strategy for service-based businesses, salons, and beauty brands.

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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.

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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


For Small Businesses & Salons

Leadership, hiring, culture, performance, and team systems for service-based businesses. Want to learn more?

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.

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)