In the following interviews, the 2020 Team-Based Pay Award winners each share how the Team-Based Business Model has helped them build healthy, profitable, and inspiring companies.

They also share how being a Team-Based company helped them survive and thrive during the COVID-19 shutdown.

Profitability Award
 - Shine Hair Color & Design Studio - Columbia, SC
Owner: Laura Pinkas


Staff Retention Award
 - Salon Secrets Spa - Kennett Square, PA
Owner: Tiffany Lahn

Customer Loyalty Award
 - Omagi Salon Spa - Louisville, KY
Owner: Marian Sang

Best Culture Shift Award
 - Brooks & Co. Innovative Hair Design - Dallas, PA
Owner: Mary Ann Brooks

Coaches’ Choice Award - The Studio - Hattiesburg, MS
Owner: Lisa Cochran


Best Turn-Around Award
 - Enlightened Beauty Salon - Fargo, ND
Owner: Kayla Bartholomay Nayes

Team-Based Pay Business of the Year - Thirty Hair - Columbia, MD
Owner: Sarah McGee Mariman

Productivity Award
 - Natural Remedies Spa - Vienna, WV
Owners: Bill & Linda Moore

Strategies created the Team-Based Pay Awards to celebrate and honor the superior performance and financial successes of salons, spas and medspas that are currently using Strategies Team-Based Pay compensation program.

Entrants were required to answer essay questions for each of the eight award categories, as well as provide profit & loss statements, balance sheets, cash-flow plans and broadbands for each department.