Welcome to The Leadership Lab
- with Bonnie Bonadeo, Brigette Sobus and Nikki Le
An event designed for salon owners to:
👉 Exponentially expand leadership
👉 Develop a high performance team
👉 Initiate powerful leadership communication
👉 Position their businesses for maximum recruitment
👉 Heal past leadership PTSD
👉 Nurture more resilience
👉 Build a structured Performance Assessment System
👉 Employee coaching with masterful goal setting
👉 Create congruency between the unconscious into the conscious
👉 Develop sustainable retention
👉 Build a multi-level pay scale with pay promotions
👉 Create a path to resilience.
👉 Unlock the leader within
👉 Unleash your power
👉 Release your joy and profits
Our Chosen Location...
MEET BASE ONE
Ground down + level up your career + your life.
BASE ONE is the space that supports everything that you are + all of the things you will become.
Whether you’re here for a training, event, yoga class or team building retreat, our hope is that you’ll leave changed. You’ll leave feeling closer to being your favorite version of yourself.
Our 2 Day Curriculum
Day 1: Building Leadership Foundation
8 am - 6 pm
🕘 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration, Nosh and Network
🕘 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | Welcome & Event Kickoff
- Introduction to The Leadership Lab
- Meet Your Coaches: Nikki Le, Brigette Sobus, Bonnie Bonadeo
- Setting Intentions: What You’ll Gain from this Experience
🕤 9:20 AM - 11:00 AM | An HR Structured One-on-One Strategy: HR in Leadership Success (Nikki Le)
- What are the Unique Types of One-on-Ones
- Structuring Effective Performance Evaluations
- The Best Tools to use in PEs
- Strategic Compensation Review Meetings
- Spot-Connect Techniques for Engaged Employees
- Prep for Goal Setting Method for Day 2
🕘 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Nikki & Eva IntroduceHR
🕚 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM | Emotional Intelligence Leadership: The Heart & Edge Approach (Bonnie Bonadeo)
- Balancing Strength with Empathy in Leadership
- The Coach Mindset: Leading, Speaking & Branding Intelligence
- Collaborative Communication for Stronger Teams
- Leading Through Coaching vs. Managing
- Leadership Communication Through Emotional Intelligence)
- Heart & Edge Approach to Leadership
- The Coach Mindset: Moving from Management to Mentorship
- Active Leading for High-Performing Teams
🕧 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM | Lunch Break & Networking
🕜 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Resilient Leadership: Healing from Leadership PTSD (Brigette Sobus)
- Understanding and Overcoming Trauma that impacts Leadership
- Recognizing Trigger Responses & Building Emotional Agility
- From Unconscious Reactions to Conscious Leadership
- Building Resiliency & Overcoming Leadership Blocks
- How to Lead with Strength Through Challenges
- Emotional Agility in the Workplace
- Creating Congruency Between Internal & External Leadership
🕝 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Sound Bath Activation - Brigette Sobus leads with guided meditation
🕒 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | HR & Talent Development: Full-Circle Strategy (Nikki Le)
- Building an HR Platform from ATS to Retention
- New Hire Compensation Strategies
- Multi-Level Compensation Strategies and Career Pathing
- Designing Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) that Drive Results
- Creating a culture of 360 degree evaluations
- How to Promote your employees through Tiered Pricing and Pay Plan promotions
🕓 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Collaboration Workshop: Leadership in Action
- Leadership Roundtables to put an action plan into place: Brand and Recruitment Marketing Topic #1: How is your brand representing your marketing strategy Topic #2 - Action Plan
- Panel Discussion with Bonnie, Brigette and Nikki
🕔 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Daily Wrap-Up & Reflection- Led By Brigette Sobus and Bonnie Bonadeo
- Key Takeaways from Day 1
- Journaling & Mindset Exercise
Day 2: Leadership Execution & Mastery
8 am - 5:30 pm
🕘 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration, Nosh and Network
🕘 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Morning Leadership Mindset & Reflections
- Mindset Meditation for a Day of Transformation
🕤 9:15 AM - 11:00 AM | The Language of Leadership: Communication that Drives Results (Bonnie Bonadeo)
- Effective Conversations for Influence & Trust
- Brand Presence & Speaking with Confidence
- Coaching vs. Managing: Leading with Purpose
🕚 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | Compensation & Performance: (Nikki Le)
- Designing Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) that Drive Results
- Creating a culture of 360 degree evaluations
- Leadership Compensation & Surveys
- Employee-Centric Goal Setting for Long-Term Success
🕦 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM | Meevo, Tippy and Spark Present
🕧 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch Break & Networking
🕜 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Leading with Resilience: Bouncing Back & Thriving (Brigette Sobus)
- Strategies for Resilient Leadership
- External Perception vs. Internal Reality (The Elephant)
- Creating an Unbreakable Leadership Mindset
- Healing Leadership PTSD & Overcoming Trauma
- Identifying & Acknowledging Leadership Trauma Post-COVID
- From Unconscious to Conscious Leadership
- Understanding Trigger Responses & External Perception
🕝 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Break & Refresh with Gratitude Exercise
🕒 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Guest Presentations
🕝 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM | Speaker and Sponsor Q&A -
- Leadership Shifts, HR Trends and Thriving in and Employee Market
- The best tools to use in Leadership
- ACTION PLAN:The best first step to take
🕓 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Q&A and Leadership Action Plan
- Certificates of Completion
- Take-Home Leadership Toolkits: (How to access)
- Final Words from the Coaches
Key Features of The Leadership Lab:
✅ Resilience: Master the mental and emotional strategies for strong leadership
✅ Resources: Tools, frameworks, and systems for real-world implementation
✅ Results: Proven leadership strategies that create lasting success
✅ Exclusive Take-Home Folder with Leadership & HR Tools
✅ Interactive, High-Value Leadership Training for Immediate Impact
✅ Confidence, tools, and mindset to coach beauty careers & lead your teams effectively
This immersive, high-level curriculum will position The Leadership Lab as a must-attend event for leaders who want to elevate their impact, empower their teams, and execute leadership strategies that drive real success!
Meet your Lab Leaders
Nikki Le
Salon Business Consultant/ HR & Compensation Specialist
Bonnie Bonadeo
Leadership & Branding Expert
Brigette Sobus
NLP Coach & Mentor
