Regional Beauty Long Lunch ✦ Bunbury WA
Education. Connection. Conversation.Stronger together.
A Celebration of Beauty Professionals
What is it?
A full-day immersive event in a beautiful regional location for beauty therapists and clinic owners.
What you’ll experience
An enriching day filled with education, inspiration, networking, and the sharing of innovative business ideas.
A day built for regional beauty, by someone who has been there.
The Regional Beauty Long Lunch is an immersive, full day professional development event for beauty therapists and clinic owners. It brings education, inspiration, networking and fresh business ideas together in one beautiful room.
Meet Karen Geiszler.
Founder, Regional Beauty Long Lunch
“Like you, I’m from a regional town. We miss out on so much as we can’t always travel to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.”
Karen created the Regional Beauty Long Lunch to close a gap she saw. Regional clinic owners and therapists simply do not have affordable access to the professional development and industry connections available in the major cities.
As a regional business owner herself, Karen knew that many solo operators cannot close their clinics for a multi-day conference. So she designed a single day, immersive event that brings industry education and networking directly to regional communities.
Secure your place.
Long Lunch Experience
A full day of clinically grounded education, honest conversation and connection with others who understand regional life. Bring your whole team and learn side by side.
- Full day access to every keynote session and panel
- Networking with peers from across the region
- Exhibitor access to meet brands and see what is new
- A swag bag to take home
- Lucky door prize eligibility
- Cocktail hour to celebrate with your people
VIP Experience
You carry the whole business on your shoulders. This is the ticket for the day you spend on yourself, with time and space to learn, connect and be looked after.
- A relaxed VIP breakfast with our speakers
- Early room access, so you can settle in and choose your seat
- Early exhibitor access, before the doors open to everyone
- Full day access to every keynote session and panel
- Priority networking with speakers, sponsors and peers
- A swag bag to take home
- An extra VIP gift
- Lucky door prize eligibility
- Cocktail hour to celebrate with your people
Meet Jarred Stedman.
General Manager, Mocha Group
Mocha Group is Australia’s largest hair, beauty and barbering media company.
Jarred brings over two decades of experience across media, marketing and management consulting, including years spent working directly with clinic owners to build commercial strategy and drive real growth across a portfolio.
With a background in social psychology, Jarred has a genuine gift for facilitating honest, productive conversation.
He understands this industry from every angle, including the pressures brand owners face and what it really takes to build trust and relevance in this market.
Jarred will be holding space for the discussions that matter most in Bunbury.
We cannot wait for you to meet him.
Meet Kylie Turkkan.
Director, Cosmeceutical Solutions
With over 30 years in the Skin & Beauty Industry, Kylie Turkkan has seen the industry change rapidly. With humble beginnings at skincare counters, then working in skin clinics to perfect her skills in addressing diverse skincare needs as a Beauty Therapist.
Her progression to a Business Development and Training role then allowed her to not only share her proficiency in skincare, but to also strategically drive growth and success with the clinics she worked with.
With a career marked by passion, dedication, and profound understanding of skin, Kylie continues to use this foundation to provide the support, training and dedication for your staff and results for your clients.
The line up, for Bunbury.
Linda Woodhead
Linda Woodhead has been in media for over 40 years and for over two decades, she has been a driving force behind Australia and New Zealand’s professional hair, beauty, and barbering industries.
As the Founder and CEO of Mocha Group, she has built a powerhouse media and events company that connects, celebrates, and elevates the industry through award-winning publications, national award programs, and large-scale events.
A passionate advocate for community, connection, and the importance of media, Linda has championed the stories and successes of thousands of salon owners, stylists, therapists, educators, and entrepreneurs, cementing Mocha Group as the beating heart of the Australasian professional industry.
Emelly Simons
Emelly Simons is an industry consultant with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in helping clinics identify where they’re losing revenue and rebuild the systems that drive sustainable growth.
With a background spanning treatment rooms, education, and managing multimillion-dollar portfolios for leading skin brands, she brings a unique perspective across both clinic operations and supplier strategy.
Known for her straight-talking approach and ability to simplify the complex, Emelly works at the intersection of skin, strategy, and commercial performance, helping clinics and brands move into structured models that actually perform in real clinic environments.
Melissa Hodgkinson
Melissa Ann is the National Sales Manager for Circadia Australia and one of the most influential voices in sales excellence, leadership, and client experience within the beauty and aesthetics industry. With over two decades of hands-on industry expertise, Melissa brings a unique blend of strategic sales mastery, emotional intelligence, and behaviour-based communication training to every stage and every room she steps into.
A certified Master NLP Practitioner with advanced qualifications in DISC Profiling, High-Performing Team Leadership, and Emotional Intelligence, Melissa has trained and mentored hundreds of beauty business owners, clinic leaders, and sales teams across Australia and New Zealand.
In her national role at Circadia, Melissa leads the Australian sales and education strategy, supporting clinics in elevating retail performance, strengthening client retention, and embedding high-impact sales behaviours into daily operations.
Jade Spehr
JadeStart are a multi-award winning, international business coaching and consulting firm with an attached marketing agency. They work exclusively in the beauty and aesthetics industries and help beauty and aesthetic businesses grow to be multiple 6 and 7 figures without burning out.
Founded in 2015 by Jade Spehr, JadeStart is owned and operated by a husband and wife team, Jade & Aaron Spehr and has worked with over a thousand beauty businesses across 15 countries around the world, helping them generate tens of millions of dollars of additional revenue through their 1:1 and online group coaching programs.
Jade is a qualified lawyer, an undergraduate accountant and has worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte, providing business coaching to seven and eight-figure businesses and turning distressed businesses around.
Kiara Carbone
Kiara brings together an advanced business honours degree with real-world experience working closely with salon and clinic owners across the beauty industry.
With a strong understanding of brand growth, consumer behaviour and product development, her work within the professional beauty brand space has given her valuable insight into the evolving needs of modern clinics and the importance of creating commercially successful, client-focused experiences.
Lucia Malejko
Lucia Malejko is a beauty educator and cosmetic tattoo artist with over 15 years of industry experience.
As the founder of Lucia Malejko Academy, she has trained more than 800 beauty professionals across Australia and internationally, helping them build successful and confident careers in the beauty industry.
Known for her passion for education, innovation, and excellence, Lucia continues to inspire beauty professionals through advanced training, industry leadership, and a commitment to achieving outstanding client results.
Help shape the standard, not just follow it.
Gay Wardle sits down with the SaCSA team for a chat about their Certificate III, IV and Diploma review, straight from the people shaping it.
Gay Wardle
Katrina Higham
Lauren Boon
Most therapists never get asked. WA, we’re asking you.
85 years in the making.
Linda Woodhead in conversation with Gay Wardle and Karen Geiszler.
Linda Woodhead
Gay Wardle
Karen Geiszler
From high frequency and galvanic to laser and light.
Grab a seat, you don’t want to miss this conversation.
Secure your place.
Long Lunch Experience
A full day of clinically grounded education, honest conversation and connection with others who understand regional life. Bring your whole team and learn side by side.
- Full day access to every keynote session and panel
- Networking with peers from across the region
- Exhibitor access to meet brands and see what is new
- A swag bag to take home
- Lucky door prize eligibility
- Cocktail hour to celebrate with your people
VIP Experience
You carry the whole business on your shoulders. This is the ticket for the day you spend on yourself, with time and space to learn, connect and be looked after.
- A relaxed VIP breakfast with our speakers
- Early room access, so you can settle in and choose your seat
- Early exhibitor access, before the doors open to everyone
- Full day access to every keynote session and panel
- Priority networking with speakers, sponsors and peers
- A swag bag to take home
- An extra VIP gift
- Lucky door prize eligibility
- Cocktail hour to celebrate with your people
Where we have been so far.
Since 2023, we have brought education, connection and conversation to seven regional communities, and Bunbury is next.
Tamworth
Flaxton, Sunshine Coast
Bundaberg
Launceston
Ballarat
McLaren Vale, South Australia
Blue Mountains
From the women who were there.
“Thank you so much because you have truly changed where my business is headed, so I appreciate you and I appreciate what you’ve done.”
Karen, I just wanted to send you a quick voice note to say thank you so much for all the time and effort and patience that you have contributed to organising the Launceston Regional Long Lunch. Attending the day has totally changed the way I feel about my business, and aside from being a great networking day, I’ve got a new business coach. I’ve moved spaces, so I’m in a beautiful sunlit space now, whereas for the last five years I’ve been in internal rooms with no windows.
You’re amazing. You created such a great event. Thank you so much.
“28 years in the industry in three different countries and finally I’m excited again.”
It was great to catch up with old friends and an honour to meet these inspirational leaders in our community. It has filled me with so much love and hope that our industry can get back on its feet and stand tall.
The idea behind the Regional Long Lunches created by Karen Geiszler is so lovely, and I would wholeheartedly say, if you can get to the next one, do not hesitate!
“Makes me proud and glad I’ve been part of this profession for nearly 40 years.”
We are back, Regional Beauty Long Lunch Tamworth, we loved you. Education, connection, conversation. My take on industry get togethers? Amazing. Why? You get to be with industry leaders, up close and personal, and they are real women just like us.
I truly loved listening to Bec Miller, who spoke about self leadership and taking responsibility for your own journey. I couldn’t be prouder of the So u Beauty girls and our connection together. The day was proof that working, and lifting (maybe straightening) a few crowns, is what I love about being in a team.
Get excited, because the beauty industry is changing. You will see a huge difference in training, in the professional rewards of all the extra knowledge beauty therapists gain, and in the acknowledgement of a very special profession.
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Frequently asked questions.
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We would love to see you in Bunbury.
Come and be part of a room full of people who understand regional life. Stronger together.
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Would you like to be part of the Regional Beauty Long Lunch as a sponsor?
Stand beside the regional and rural beauty professionals you want to reach. Send us an email and we will share the sponsorship options with you.