• How to achieve the highest level of staff performance
  
• Determining what works and what no-longer works and why
  
• How to identify and capture quality clients
  
• How to ensure your business remains a market leader
  

Time: 9.45am - 10.30am
WEIGHTLOSS - THE NEW BOOM AND HOW YOU CAN BENEFIT FROM IT
Speaker: Dr Dzung Price

Dr Dzung Price is a highly experienced and diversified Holistic Medical Practitioner with a passion for innovative wellness. She and her dedicated team continually research cutting edge concepts, products and skills designed especially for the beauty sector. For the first time at this APAN Canberra seminar, Dr Price will share her professional insights and open the lid on research focussed on creating sustainable weight loss and how and why smart weight loss can also increase rejuvenation, vitality and wellness.

Smart sustainable weight loss is primarily about body contouring through fat burning and it is a multi- layered challenge. However, intelligent aestheticians can be trained to understand and deliver outcomes within their own practices. This is exciting news and potentially a brand new income stream for motivated therapists and business owners within the sector. Dr Price’s seminar information is priceless and will focus on these key questions so you will learn exactly how this can be achieved. You will learn:

• The fundamental causes of weight gain
  
• Exactly what compromises the body's metabolic processes to cause weight gain
  
• How weight gain impacts the ageing process
  
• How weight gain impacts disease
  
• Latest credible scientific theories on sustainable weight loss
  
• New tools available for you as an aesthetician to become a weight-loss facilitator.
  

Time: 11.00am-11.45am
NEW MARKET DRIVERS THAT ARE CHANGING THE FUTURE OF AESTHETICS
Speaker: Tina Viney

Tina Viney is respected as leading and influential figure in the Australian aesthetics industry and has won several awards for her contributions in the advancement of education in aesthetics. She has extensive qualifications in both aesthetics and business and is the CEO of APAN and the editor of APJ Journal. Within her current position she dedicates much of her time to investigating global events, research developments, consumer trends, regulatory compliance issues and business strategies. Tina will present new global trends and research findings that will amaze you. You will learn:

• The new vogue that is redefining the word aesthetics
  
• The crutial role of a changed mindset that can change your future
  
• The benefit of networks and dynamic collaborations
  
• Marketing strategies that are bringing the best results
  
  

Time: 1.00-1.45pm.
INDUSTRY FORUM
Presenters: Tess Walls, Teresa Russo, Gay Wardle and Tracey Collins

Hear from colleagues who have identified how to overcome the challenges and embrace the opportunities that have supported their business growth. This will be a candid confrontation where the hottest topics and concerns that are effecting our industry will be discussed.

• The current web-based group discount frenzy
  
• The best strategies that produce a successful and supportive team
  
• Shifting trends and how to convert challenges to opportunities
  
• How to retain your clients and grow your database.
  
  

Time: 2.15 - 3.00pm
THE NEED AND URGENCY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Presenter: Professor Ray Hayek

Dr Hayek graduated in 1999 with a PhD in neuroscience from the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University and subsequently has lectured in a number of health areas in particular Neurology. Dr Hayek is involved in a number of research initiatives. He recently joined MHM Higher Education as Head of School of Applied Health Science and has a keen interest in assisting the Aesthetics Industry gain greater credibility and recognition.

In his inspirational style Dr Hayek will present compelling information that supports the purpose and value of high education for an emerging aesthetics industry. A new approach to programs and tertiary education will be explored, which may offer the aesthetics industry the opportunity to gain greater confidence and positioning within the health care sector as professionals.

Specifically this presentation will focus on:

• Higher Education requirements
  
• Diversifying the scope of training for Aesthetics professional
  
• Theoretical constructs for an emerging profession
  
• Pathways for National recognition and registration
  

Time: 3.30-4.15pm.
TRANSDERMAL MAGNESIUM ABSORPTION - THE BENEFITS FOR SKIN AND BODY
Presenter: Sandy Sanderson

The great benefit of transdermal magnesium is that you absorb magnesium via the skin much more efficiently than if you were to ingest tablets and powders, which are hard to digest and absorb properly through the bowel wall. The majority of people are lucky to get 20% of the magnesium they inject from tablets making it to their tissue cells, as most is excreted. Transdermal absorption of minerals has been done for thousands of years as people discovered over time that when they soaked in mineral-rich hot springs, they experienced a healing and rejuvenation effect. This process is called Balneotherapy and has been formally tested in numerous studies. Sandy Sanderson is a highly qualified and knowledgeable presenter who will have you captivated and asking for more.You will learn:

• How to enhance your treatment results with the use of magnesium
  
• Why the body benefits more from transdermal magnesium
  
• What skin conditions benefit from magnesium and methods of application
  
• Research information on the various ways that the body benefits from magnesium