Welcome to the Short Hair Summit!
We are honored to have you in the room for two days designed to shift your purpose, elevate your skills, and reignite your passion behind the chair. Today is all about growth, connection, and stepping boldly into the next chapter of your career. Get ready to learn, be inspired, and surround yourself with a community of champions who are committed to excellence.
Educator's 2026 Line Up
Class Descriptions:
Lashonda Hill:
The Luxury Pixie: Custom Weave Techniques for Realistic Short Hair
Class Description:
In this technique-driven session, LaShonda Hill teaches how to create pixie styles with weave that look and behave like natural hair. This class focuses on product compatibility, realistic density, and seamless integration—showing stylists how to use the same tools and products they trust on natural hair to achieve believable movement, texture, and finish on weave.
Learn how to build a natural-looking foundation, customize placement for authenticity, and cut and style for true-to-life results that clients can wear with confidence.
Perfect for stylists who want their short weave work to be undetectable, touchable, and salon-realistic.
Kay & Corey:
LinqxCKOR Pro Short Hair Series
as Corey and Kay demonstrate how to create vibrant, long-lasting red pixie transformations with brilliance and integrity.
In this focused 1-hour Look & Learn, you’ll watch intentional formulation, precision cutting, strategic color placement, and expert styling come together seamlessly. Learn how to achieve bold ruby and soft copper tones while maintaining strength, shine, and hair health using LinqxCKOR products.
This demonstration-based session gives you the knowledge and visual breakdown needed to confidently design cohesive, salon-ready short hair transformations behind the chair.
Chris Bond:
Personal Branding Ain’t AI
How Beauty Professionals Build Real Influence in a Copycat Industry
In a world where trends move fast and everyone seems to look the same online, real influence doesn’t come from copying what’s viral — it comes from clarity, confidence, and authenticity.
This powerful keynote challenges beauty professionals to stop blending in and start standing out. You’ll learn how to build a personal brand rooted in identity, not imitation — one that attracts loyal clients, increases authority, and creates income beyond the chair.
From positioning and presence to personality and profit, this session reveals why AI is a tool — but you are the brand.
If you’re ready to move from stylist to standout, from service provider to recognized authority, this class is for you.This powerful keynote challenges beauty professionals to stop blending in and start standing out. You’ll learn how to build a personal brand rooted in identity, not imitation — one that attracts loyal clients, increases authority, and creates income beyond the chair.
From positioning and presence to personality and profit, this session reveals why AI is a tool — but you are the brand.
If you’re ready to move from stylist to standout, from service provider to recognized authority, this class is for you.
Bobby Harris:The Details Matter: The Art of the Picture Perfect look without a filter
Class Description:
This class you will equip you with the knowledge needed to achieve clean crisp lines and the eye for details. While recapping the usage of basic barbering skills and learning to implement advanced techniques that will upgrade your skill set, clientele, service menu and income.
By Creating The Picture Perfect Look with the usage of color enhancement, and attention to detail it will take a simple Fade with designs to a picture worthy masterpiece.
● Advance tips and tricks for Fading
● Proper Tool selection
● Clipper & Razor Techniques
● Color Enhancement Techniques
● Guard Choice & Free Hand Cutting
● Creating the image and illusions
Rae-Shell Willis
Loc Color & Pin-less Updos
In this live demonstration, you’ll discover how to safely color locs while protecting their health—and transform them into elegant, secure updos with no pins required.
Felecia Carmouche:
Catch Wave Vintage Class
Class descriptionYou will learn how to create a Vintage Hair Style incorporated with soft waves. Different techniques will be demonstrated to show you how to create diverse vintage styles with the same hair cut and learn what products create great finishings for vintage styles. This class will teach you what's most important to perfect your styling when it comes to short vintage styles & help you create a new spin to the trendy new styles.
Sam McCrea:
Stop Leaving Money on the Table: Retail Mastery Professionals
This high-energy, strategy-packed course is designed for Salon owners, Stylists, Barbers and Beauty Professionals who are tired of watching potential profit walk out the door. In today’s competitive beauty industry, service revenue alone isn’t enough. Retail is the untapped goldmine sitting right in front of you. This course educates you exactly how to capture it.
I break down why retail isn’t about “SELLING,” but about serving! YOUR CLIENTS TRUST YOU! When you don’t recommend the right products for at-home care, you’re not just missing revenue, you’re missing RESULTS. This session of the Summit dives into how to naturally integrate retail conversations into every appointment without sounding pushy or scripted.
What You’ll Learn:
How to increase retail sales without increasing chair time
The psychology behind why clients don’t buy — and how to change that
Simple consultation techniques that lead to easy product recommendations
How to position products as solutions, not add-ons
How much money salons typically lose each month by not prioritizing retail
Creating a retail culture within your team
Sam also covers practical strategies such as
Setting retail goals per stylist
Using visual merchandising to boost impulse purchases
Building product bundles for higher ticket sales
Product placement
Tracking retail-to-service ratios
Training staff to confidently recommend products
By the end of this class, you’ll understand that every client who leaves without a recommended product is revenue left behind. Beauty Professionals are exiting with a clear action plan to increase your average ticket, improve client results, and build a more profitable salon, without feeling salesy.
Because in the beauty industry, retail isn’t extra. It's essentially, The Answer.
Naija Coates: Facts Before The Beat
Class Description
Lathisha Scott: Foundation Factor of Weaving
Class Description
This class provides educational information for stylist to implement foundational techniques to give speed, cut dryer time, and perfect a natural look on a weave install.
Nichole Daniels Morton:
The Nail Blueprint
Class Description
Enola Pilliard: Decoding Hair Loss Solution
Class Description
Sunday: Day 1 – Education & Industry Growth
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration & Check-In
Educators & VIP Lounge
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Education Session / Technique Demonstration
Felecia Carmouche
“VERSATILE PIXIE”
10:00AM – 11:00 AM
Education Session / Technique Demonstration
Freddi J & Kendall
“Cut Color Wave Certified”
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Education Session / Technique Demonstration
Bobby Harris
“The Details Matter”
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Education Session / Technique Demonstration
Kay & Corey Paul
“Color Transformation”
1:10 AM – 2:20 PM
Lunch Break / Vendor Marketplace Open
“Champion Brunch & Recognition”
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Education Session / Technique Demonstration
Lashonda Hill
“The Luxury Pixie: Custom Weave Techniques for Realistic Short Hair”
3:30 PM –4:30PM
-Professional Doing Business Panel Discussion
-Students Panel Discussion & Q&A
Real conversations about building a career after graduation.
4:35 PM – 5:35 PM
Education Session / Technique Demonstration
Rae-Shell Willis
“Loc Color & Pin-less Updo”
5:40 PM – 6:00 PM
Networking & Vendor Marketplace
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Pixie Party & Student Showcase
Networking
Monday: Day 2 – Education & Industry Growth
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (GOVERNOR ROOM)
CHRIS BOND
“ PERSONAL BRANDING AIN’T AI”
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (CAPITOL ROOM)
ENOLA PILLIARD
“DECODING HAIRLOSS SOLUTIONS”
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM - (KING ROOM)
FREDDI J & KENDALL
CUTTING & STYLING HANDS-ON CLASS-Band only
10:35 AM -12:00 PM (GOVERNOR ROOM)
FELECIA CARMOUCHE -
“CATCH THE WAVE VINTAGE CLASS”
10:35AM - 11:30AM(CAPITOL ROOM)
RAE-SHELL WILLIS
“LOC REPAIR & MAINTENANCE”
11:30PM-1:00PM(GOVERNORS ROOM)
KAY & COREY
“LINQ X CKOR PRO SHORT SERIES”
11:30PM-1:00PM(CAPITOL ROOM)
LATHISHA SCOTT
FOUNDATION FACTOR OF WEAVING
12:00PM-1:30PM(KING ROOM)
SAM MCCREA
STOP LEAVE MONEY ON THE TABLE”
1:35PM-3:00PM (CAPITOL ROOM)
LASHONDA HILL
“The Luxury Pixie: Custom Weave Techniques for Realistic Short Hair
1:35PM-3:00PM (GOVERNOR ROOM)
BOBBY HARRIS
“THE DETAILS MATTER”
1:35PM-2:00PM(KING ROOM)
NAIJA COATES
“FACTS BEFORE THE BEAT”
3:05PM-4:35PM(KING ROOM)
NICHOLE DANIALS
“THE NAIL BLUEPRINT”
3:05PM-5:00PM(CAPITOL ROOM)
IRENE COATES
“BeWeave It or Not | Creating the most believable Quick weave pixie”
Summit Concludes: 6:00PM