Women In Business Luncheon with Guest Speaker Debbie Penzone

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

Debbie Penzone has a distinguished resume as a business entrepreneur, a salon and spa industry innovator, community leader, author, philanthropist, and holistic lifestyle expert. She is passionate about wellness and inspiring others to live their fullest lives – and integrating these same principles into the business.

Debbie leads a team of hundreds as President + CEO of PENZONE. Under the PENZONE umbrella, you’ll find PENZONE Salons + Spas – an Ohio-based group of world-class salons and spas with five locations that serve more than 300,000 guests a year. Debbie spent more than 30 years helping to strategically build and evolve the company. Her role then evolved into artistic director, training director and senior vice president before taking the organization’s helm in 2008.

Launching two new brands was the spark that ignited a whole new way of living the brand and inspired a new energy for creativity and community. In 2017, Royal Rhino Club Barbershop & Lounge along with L I T Life + Yoga – a collaborative space created to foster connection. Debbie's greatest gift came from her husband and founder, Charles Penzone which was to reinvent the iconic Charles Penzone brand for the future. The company’s reinvention, rebranding, renovations and new salon builds earned both local + nationwide acclaim. PENZONE Salon + Spa Dublin was chosen as the 2019 North American Hairstyling Awards “Salon Design of the Year” and the 2019 Salon Today “Salon of the Year.” 

BASE ONE launched in April 2024 – A multidimensional space to ground down + level up your career + your life. Here, you’ll find trainings, events, yoga + movement, coworking, and a fully operational and licensed training salon and spa – PENZONE x BASE ONE.

Current Board Positions + Award Recognitions:
▪ Ohio State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering Board Member
▪ Intercoiffure Board Member
▪ International SalonSpa Business Network Member
▪ Salon Today magazine named her among its 20 Most Intriguing Salon Owners.
▪ Modern Salon honored her with its Spirit of Noel award.
▪ Smart Business magazine recognized Debbie as a Power 100 leader and Smart 50 top executive.
▪ Columbus’s Business First honored her as a Forty Under 40 awardee and one of Central Ohio’s 20 Most Remarkable Women.
▪ Distinguished as a YWCA Woman of Achievement.
▪ Recognized as Volunteer of the Year by the American Cancer Society, twice. 

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