Dog Grooming Congress
Sunday 23 June 2024
Headland House
Bill Betts
Pet Passion to Profit
Bill Betts is a Pet Grooming Business Expert. He is a keynote speaker, trainer and mentor for pet grooming professionals.
Bill is the founder of Pet Passion to Profit and the Pet Grooming Programme. He is the founder of the Dog Grooming Business Help & Support Facebook group; and has his own podcast and speaks at a number of events around the country.
Bill has set up Dog Grooming Business Help & Support where he helps with problems faced in their businesses. He has an award winning podcast and speaks on relevant topics within the industry and business.
His Pet Grooming Programme helps to build groomers confidence, mindset and their business structures. Bill has all the knowledge and insight to help pet groomers and their businesses who feel like they could be doing better, transform into the business of their dreams.
Tina Constance
Tellington TTouch Training
Tina is a Tellington TTouch Instructor for Companion Animals and horses based in the UK. She started her TTouch journey over 25 years ago and teaches and lectures in the UK and abroad, both online and in person.
Along with teaching and working with clients, Tina works in a rescue centre where she incorporates TTouch daily to help reduce stress in the animals and improve their chances of finding forever homes.
Vasileios Barlos
Vasileios Barlos Grooming
Vasileios is City and Guilds qualified and has been grooming professionally in the UK for 9 years. He has a vast celebrity client list who he works for from his salon at home in London. He is an award-winning groomer and was a contestant on the BBCs ‘Pooch Perfect’.
In 2022, Vasileios was also nominated as best up and coming stylist UK at the International Grooming Conference.
He regularly competes at Crufts with his toy poodles and attends an array of shows and competitions.
Carla Keen
Carla Keen has been grooming since 2014, she has completed her full City and Guild Level 3 and her full ICMG.
She has competed in both grooming competitions and the show ring for over six years with the Bichon Frise and enjoys working with them the most.
Carla also runs ‘Well-Being for Dog Groomers, the Podcast’, and has been doing this since April 2023.
Kara Boyd
Fairy Dog Mother
Kara has been grooming for 12 years and has been running the Fairy Dog Mother for 10 years.
Kara is a multi-award-winning groomer, now competing at champion level in mixed breed class. She reached the quarter finals on the BBC show Pooch Perfect and won the SME ‘Youngest Business Woman’ award in 2021.
Kara has 5 dogs - 2 Poodles, a Dachshund, a Springer X Cavi and a Cockerpoo and she also has a little boy called Arthur. She is passionate about dog grooming and loves sharing as much as she can with other groomers.
Lisa Parker
Lisa has been grooming for 17 years and has specialised over the past 10 years on the Miniature Schnauzer, which she also shows with.
Lisa is City and Guilds level 3 qualified and is also now working towards achieving her ICMG.
She competed at several grooming competitions in 2016/17 then took a break, before getting the bug for it again in 2023, and she has been competing with her Mini Schnauzers ever since.
Paul Daly
Dogs have always been a passion for Paul and even as a child, he knew he had an innate connection with them.
Paul started his career in training and gundog training, which eventually transitioned over to the field of canine behaviour – the area he has now specialised in for almost three decades.
Paula Bryan
Clipit
With nearly four decades of experience in the dog and horse grooming industry, Paula has always been passionate about driving positive change in the field.
Her expertise spans from skin and coat care to business development and tool and equipment management.
Tom Heaton-Clarke
Tom has been grooming for 7 years and started as an apprentice in 2016, he attained his city and guilds level 2 and 3 diploma in dog grooming with distinctions as well as the medal of excellence for his work while an apprentice.
He started self-employment in 2019 where he rented tables at a couple of salons before opening a salon of his own in 2020.
Tom regularly likes to compete in grooming competitions around the UK and has won awards for many classes including handstrip terrier, standard poodle and clipped schnauzer. He’s since been focusing on purebreed scissor classes with his kerry blue terrier Delilah where he has worked his way up to champion class over the past year.
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