Canvas Me, the beauty industry's first all-in-one portfolio builder, personal and professional development forum, and job recruitment platform, announces the addition of top beauty industry executive, Stephanie Melvin. With more than twenty years of leadership, sales, and consultative experience with elite beauty brands, Stephanie blends her passion, education, and experience to guide the success of salons, schools and corporate industry partners. 

This new addition will further align with Canvas ME’s mission to elevate, professionalize and empower the professional beauty industry as a whole. “Our industry is changing more rapidly than ever before. The entrepreneurial spirit of today’s beauty professional is defining how we educate, how we communicate, and ultimately, how we do business. That spirit, coupled with increasing access to information, networking, and education, is defining the landscape of the professional beauty industry and tools like Canvas Me not only keep us on the forefront of the change, but will connect us all to best serve the collective,” says Stephanie Melvin, VP of Business Development, Canvas ME.

Stephanie joins Canvas Me from Paul Mitchell Schools, where she led the organization in creating and implementing strategies and tools to elevate recruitment campaigns, enrollment systems, and salon relationships, for over a decade. Stephanie specializes in recruitment, cross-generational communication, and educating others on the technology and tools necessary to not only embrace, but define the future of the beauty industry.

“Stephanie is  committed to providing results-driven support and education to take the students, schools, beauty businesses, and industry professionals we serve, to their next level of success. Her knowledge and burning desire to champion the future of our industry is inspiring and couldn’t be more in alignment with the Canvas ME mission. Stepanie is everything Canvas Me stands for and we are honored to make history together as we empower, inspired, successful, and emotionally intelligent humans who are seen, heard, find their place of belonging  and most importantly live out the beauty career of their dreams.” - Jen Martinelli, Co-founder, Canvas ME.

 About Canvas ME: Co-Founders of Canvas Me, Jen and Matt Martinelli, are a husband and wife team set out to disrupt the world of beauty recruitment as we know it, and to empower beauty pros and beauty businesses everywhere to be seen and find their tribe. After more than two decades of working at a high profile beauty software company and working with thousands of beauty business owners, the dynamic duo grew frustrated at the lack of resources that beauty professionals had to showcase their creative work, achievements and goals. Similarly, they were unhappy about the lack of resources for beauty business owners in finding their next cultural fit to join their work family. That was the moment the two made the leap to create Canvas Me, the beauty industry's first all-in-one portfolio builder, personal  and professional development forum, and job recruitment platform, created from pure passion, purpose, and transformation. Today Canvas Me is home to thousands of beauty students, beauty professionals and beauty businesses across the country sharing their stories through their digital portfolios so that they can find and connect with their people and live out the beauty career of their dreams.

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