Aesthetic Business Masters SYDNEY 2026
Description
Back by Popular Demand
After overwhelming feedback and THREE sold-out seasons, we’re thrilled to announce the Aesthetic Business Masters is now back. With a full day designed for clinic owners, spcialists, medical practitioners, nurses and practice managers ready to scale, systemise, and thrive.
This summit is unlike any other—fast-paced, no-fluff, and packed with actionable insights that deliver real results in your business.
ONE DAY WORKING ON YOUR BUSINESS – MASTERING YOUR BUSINESS
THE VENUE
Jones Bay Wharf is a historic, repurposed finger wharf in Pyrmont, Sydney, featuring modern commercial office spaces, upscale dining, and a marina. Completed between 1911 and 1919, this heritage-listed site has transitioned from a major shipping port into a vibrant waterfront precinct offering spectacular views of the Harbour Bridge and city skyline.
ONE DAY – MASTERING YOUR BUSINESS, MARKETING, AI & BRANDING IMMERSIVE POWERHOUSE
9:00am – 5:30pm
Get straight down to business with Australia's most trusted industry leaders.
You’ll learn:
How to scale your clinic without burnout - Ai Focus!
Proven strategies for growing profit & revenue
When (and how) to prepare your business for sale
Hiring, leadership, and creating a high performing team
Creating long-term success while working smarter, not harder - Automation and Ai
Inbound marketing strategies (blogs, SEO, organic content)
Outbound marketing that converts (email, EDMs, paid ads)
Social media trends, storytelling & content repurposing
Personal branding for practitioners and clinic owners
Using AI tools to save time and scale visibility
The latest on TGA compliance & regulatory updates
Whether you’re building your first treatment room or managing a multi-location empire—Day One will set the strategic foundation for everything that follows
EVENING NETWORKING SOIREE
5:30PM – 6:30pm | Networking Opportunity post event at THE LOFT
TICKETS INCLUDE:
Full day of high-impact education
20+ leading speakers and panelists
Networking morning teas, lunches and afternoon teas
Summit swag bags & materials - A huge hit every year! (Industry Trade Excluded)
Networking Soiree
VIP TICKETS INCLUDE (Valued over $1,730):
Everything in General Admission PLUS:
PRE EVENT VIP DINNER at Revy (Sunday 3rd May 2025)
Valued over $150
Gift Valued over $150
SOHO ROOM VIP GOURMET PLATED BREAKFAST & LUNCH (Monday 4th May 7:45am)
Valued over $200 - no waiting in uffet lines
UNIQUE VIP GIFT (In addition to Summit Swag Bags)
Valued over $150
SWAG BAG
Valued over $300
SET OF SCRUBS FROM SCRUB LAB
PRIORITY REGISTRATION & CONCIERGE
PRIORITY VIP ALLOCATED SEATING (Front of Room tables are VIP only)
Complimentary 12 month membership, giving you access to the ABM portal with all recordings from 2025 and 2026 - plus resources and more!
Valued over $90
ALL INCLUSION OF GA TICKET
Valued over $590
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS INCLUDE (Valued over $500):
Full day event at Jones Bay Wharf
Swag bag
Valued over $300
Morning Tea, Lunch and Afternoon Tea
Valued over $150
Barrista coffee
Valued over $20
Networking Soiree
Valued over $90
Access to all speakers and exhibitors
Who Should Attend?
Clinic Owners & Practice Managers
Specialists looking to learn
Practitioners curious to upskill
Established business leaders in the aesthetic space
Start-ups and Entrepreneaurs
Limited tickets available. This event will sell out.
Secure your seat today and take your business to the next level.
Our 24 Expert Speakers (Including 2 International Keynotes and one Panel)
OUR PARTNERS
OUR MEDIA PARTNERS
Please Note: General Admission and VIP tickets are exclusively for clinic owners and practitioners. Trade and industry representatives must register using the dedicated Trade Ticket category. All
registrations request the clinic name; if a trade representative purchases a clinic ticket, our team will contact you, issue a refund, and provide the correct trade ticket. This process ensures accurate
lanyard identification, capacity reporting, and post-event delegate follow-up for our industry partners.
Speaker Lineup
Grazina Fechner
Director of Front and Centre Training Solutions, Grazina Fechner is a dynamic presenter, communication expert, and seasoned MC known for bringing energy, clarity, and audience engagement to every stage. With a background spanning media, leadership development, sales, and training, she is highly regarded for helping professionals communicate with confidence and impact.
David Segal
David Segal is a business strategist, entrepreneur, and co-host of Inside Aesthetics — the world’s leading podcast in aesthetic medicine. With over 20 years in the industry, he has built and scaled multiple ventures, including co-founding Cosmos Clinic, serving as General Manager of Laser Clinics Australia during its rapid expansion, and founding The Cosmetic Institute, one of Australia’s largest cosmetic surgery groups. Today, David advises clinics and brands on growth, operations, and profitability, drawing on real-world experience across both success and failure. Through Inside Aesthetics, he engages a global audience of practitioners and business owners, and is a regular speaker at leading industry conferences. He is also the co-founder of the Inside Aesthetics Community, a platform designed to connect and educate the global aesthetics industry.
Megan Reid
Megan Reid is the National Strategic Partnerships Lead at Fresh Clinics and has over 20 years’ experience in the aesthetics industry. She has been part of building and scaling clinic networks from the ground up and now works closely with suppliers and clinics to drive growth across the market. At Fresh Clinics, Megs has access to insights across almost 2,000 clinics, giving her a unique view of what’s actually happening in the industry in real time. She’s passionate about helping clinics turn strategy into action, with a focus on practical, real-world ways to grow revenue and build strong, sustainable businesses.
Maxwell Stock
Maxwell Stock Founder and CEO of Epicutis, Maxwell Stock is a science-led skincare innovator with more than 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical and cosmetic ingredient development. He is known for bringing a biotech perspective to professional skincare, creating minimalist, high-performance formulations focused on skin health, inflammation control, and clinically meaningful results.
Lisa Johnson
President of Sales + Marketing at Epicutis, Lisa Johnson brings extensive clinical and commercial expertise to the global aesthetics space. With a background in medical aesthetics and skincare integration within cosmetic procedures, she is recognised for helping bridge the gap between clinical practice, skin health education, and next-generation professional skincare.
Rosy McEvedy
Rosy McEvedy is the Founder of IV League Drips, Academy by IV League and Revitalise by IV, a wellness entrepreneur and educator passionate about helping people feel energised, resilient, and empowered from the inside out. With a strong focus on NAD+, peptides, and preventative health, Rosy bridges science with soulful, practical wellness.
Pia Kynoch
Owner and Principal Therapist of Verve Skin Beauty Wellness, Pia Kynoch is a highly respected skin therapist and wellness advocate with more than two decades of experience in dermal skin therapies. Known for blending clinical expertise with a holistic approach to wellbeing, she is widely regarded for her work in skin correction, corneotherapy, and conscious ageing.
Estelle Carroll
Business and communications coach Estelle Carroll empowers clinic and salon leaders with the tools to communicate effectively, lead confidently, and grow with clarity.
Zena Chami
Zena Chami Draws on her real experience building a skincare brand in one of Australia's most competitive markets, she shares the honest truth about what it takes to survive as a founder, not just in business, but across all the roles life demands at the same time. Through three hard-won lessons — the power of reflection, reframing setbacks as data, and redefining what success looks like in the early years, she offers practical perspective grounded in lived experience. It's not a polished success story. It's the talk she wishes someone had given her.
Jamal Ammar
Jamal Ammar RN is a cosmetic nurse and founder recognised for his holistic, confidence-led approach to skin health, cosmetic medicine, and modern aesthetic care.
Ramey Shehata
amey Shehata is Head of Partnerships at Podium and one of the first people to bring the platform to Australia, spending the last 6.5 years helping local businesses, including healthcare providers, unlock the power of modern customer communication. In the early days, Podium made its mark helping practices collect online reviews, capture leads, and streamline patient messaging. Fast forward to 2026, and Podium has evolved into a full AI-powered communication suite, automating patient interactions, reducing no-shows, and converting conversations into revenue. Ramey has been at the forefront of that journey, and today he's here to share how healthcare providers are using Podium to deliver a better patient experience at every touchpoint. Ramey's presentation will be: ‘Your Front Desk, Reimagined: Inside the Shift to AI-Powered Patient Experience’
Cate Scolnik
Founder of Sane Social Media, Cate Scolnik is a healthcare-focused digital marketing strategist who helps clinics grow through smart, compliant, and sustainable marketing. Known for simplifying digital strategy for practice owners, she specialises in content, campaigns, and lead generation that work within healthcare and AHPRA-aware environments. Most clinic owners think their ads are the problem, but ads are rarely the real issue. This session reveals the hidden gaps in your marketing and sales funnel that quietly drain leads, waste ad spend, and cap your growth. From poor follow up to broken booking journeys, we’ll unpack where conversions are really slipping and how to fix them fast. If your marketing “should be working” but isn’t delivering consistent ROI, this is where you’ll find out why and what to do next.
Emma Hobson
Emma Hobson is one of the region’s most respected skin education leaders. With more than 30 years of industry experience spanning business ownership, spa leadership, and global education, she is known for translating skin science, future trends, and business strategy into actionable insight for professionals.
Isabella Loneragan
Isabella Loneragan is the multi-award-winning founder of The Skinformé Academy – a world-class facial and facial massage training institution designed to elevate hands-on skin therapy and moreover, guide touch therapists to turn their skills into thriving businesses. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Isabella also runs the Isabella Loneragan Skin clinic in Bowral and Sydney NSW, and is a celebrated product formulator, corporate speaker and media commentator.
Karla McDiarmid
Karla is a leading force behind Macquarie MediSpa, recognised for delivering sophisticated, results-focused aesthetic care with a strong emphasis on client experience, innovation, and excellence.
Rima Tenian
Rima is the Principal Therapist at Illuminate Skin and Body, celebrated for her award-winning leadership, holistic treatment philosophy, and dedication to innovative, personalised aesthetic care.
Gay Wardle
Gay Wardle is a well-known independent aesthetic and beauty trainer. She holds a Bachelor of Health Science in Dermal Therapies and has lectured at prestigious Sydney and Brisbane universities. With four decades of experience in the skin and beauty industry, and over a decade in education, her contributions to the Australian beauty industry have been widely recognised. Gay was inducted into both the ABIA Hall of Fame and the Reed Exhibition Hall of Fame in 2014, and named The Educator of the Year in 2015, recognising her outstanding work. Her passion for teaching and developing advanced skin treatment programmes using modern beauty technologies are what distinguishes her. She takes pride in training therapists to provide exceptional services that go above and beyond the needs of their clients. It's no surprise that some of Australia's leading beauty equipment and product manufacturers frequently consult with her on the development and delivery of their salon training and education programmes. Gay prioritises education and is always looking for new ways to stay up to date on the latest treatment techniques. Her interest in advanced technologies drives her to travel the world to attend skin symposiums and medical conferences.
Giulia Teaupa
Giulia Teaupa is a business advisor, speaker, and industry judge recognised for her grounded, discerning approach to leadership and long-term business design. Having built, scaled, and exited her own beauty and skin clinic, Giulia now works alongside established business owners to strengthen decision-making, elevate personal standards, and design commercially sound businesses that support sustainability — not burnout. Her work sits at the intersection of mindset, behavioural insight (including DISC profiling), and exit awareness. Rather than focusing on tools or tactics, Giulia challenges founders to create white space, ask better questions, and improve the quality of their thinking — because clarity shapes every commercial outcome. She is also the creator of a structured leadership journal designed specifically for established operators seeking sharper decision-making and stronger leadership discipline. As a speaker and judge, Giulia values clarity, structure, ethical growth, and long-term viability over short-term noise.
Jade Spehr
Founder of JadeStart, Jade Spehr is an award-winning international business coach who helps beauty and aesthetic business owners grow more profitable, sustainable businesses. With a background in law, accounting, and consulting at PwC, she is known for bringing sharp commercial strategy and practical growth frameworks to clinic owners worldwide.
Saf Chowdhury
Saf is an experienced digital marketing strategist who has crafted hundreds of enterprise organic/paid search and social campaigns for multinational brands that have driven millions of dollars in incremental revenue growth. This experience is across brands including Vodafone, Calvin Klein, Footlocker, Dermalogica, Universal Music and Macquarie University to name a few. He is an experienced speaker and has keynoted at APAC events including Mumbrella, iMedia, Ragtrader, Online Retailer and Retail Global conferences. He also routinely trains agencies and tech platform teams, including PayPal, Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, WP Engine/Wordpress & Zip about how to maximize ROI from online marketing. Saf's passion is to help support sales teams to become technically savvy solution sales operators who, not only know the lingo, but can pick apart a site on the spot to deliver real insights into how to scale a business through digital channels. Areas of expertise: ✔ SEO/SEM/PPC & Content Strategy ✔ Social Media Marketing Strategy ✔ Building High Performance Technical Sales Teams ✔ Public Speaking & Panelist at Conferences
Alicia Hagen
I am experienced managing & marketing both large multi-national firms as well as small businesses over a variety of industries such as Aesthetics, Automotive, FMCG, Retail, Tourism and Manufacturing. This has given me the capacity to identify key targets and priorities, critically analyse alternative strategies, design innovative solutions and follow through for completion with exceptional results. More specifically, I have used social media as the most powerful modern tool for easily boosting revenue and building online presence through highly targeted sales funnels.
Neil Osborne
Keynote Speaker, Master Trainer, Founder, Business Consultant, Media Contributor Don’t let the word persuasion, fool you. Neil’s transformative presentations and training events are as much about listening, as they are talking. Drawing on 30+ years of successful selling in the Aesthetic, Beauty and Hair industries, he helps every audience understand that today, no one can afford to be a persuasion amateur. His presentations have fascinated and engaged evidence-based audiences, as well as challenged attendees at hundreds of corporate and industry training events, yet they all agree that Neil’s energy, passion and message stays with you long after he finishes speaking. He gives you a detailed roadmap for how to climb out of the chasm of feeling like you’re ‘selling’, by using the gentle art of asking instead of telling, in your conversations. Using his simple approach and framework, you can sell products, inspire people, help solve problems and inevitably earn you more money.
Paul Fister
Paul Fister B.Bus (Marketing), Dip. Form. Chem., Member ASCC Educator | Formulator | Skin Health Advocate With over 30 years of experience in the cosmetic industry, Paul Fister combines deep scientific knowledge of skin structure and function with a practical understanding of what works in clinical and retail settings. A graduate of Monash University with a Bachelor of Business majoring in Marketing, Paul has spent his career studying cosmetic ingredients, formulation science, and the evolving relationship between skin health and professional skincare. He holds a Diploma in Formulation Chemistry and is a long-standing member of the Australian Society of Cosmetic Chemists (ASCC). Paul is also a published author of numerous articles on skin physiology, ingredient science, and the business of beauty therapy. His work bridges the gap between cosmetic chemistry and practical results—empowering professionals with evidence-based insights and strategies that support ethical, effective skin care.
Alfie Lombardi
Alfie Lombardi is a business growth strategist, sales and marketing expert, and industry leader with more than three decades of experience helping aesthetic and medical businesses scale with confidence. Known for his strength in business development, sales performance, and market positioning, Alfie brings practical commercial insight that helps clinics and brands drive revenue, strengthen relationships, and grow sustainably.
Nicole Montgomery
Nicole Montgomery is an event host, aesthetic business strategist, and digital marketing expert, as well as the co-founder of Aesthetic Coach and co-founder of Aesthetic Business Masters. With more than 20 years of experience across aesthetics, health, events, and brand strategy, she is known for helping clinic owners and industry leaders elevate visibility, sharpen positioning, and build commercially strong, future-focused businesses.
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