M.O.B. Business Academy

Helping you build your business skill set and your business mindset



Are you running a business or is your business running you?

Before I was running a business, my business was running me. Sadly, I didn't even know I had a business, I thought I was just a hairstylist.  The first few years of my hairstylist career, I spent going from salon to salon trying to figure this hair career thing out.

At each salon, I learned some important things:

The first two salons I worked at I booth rented. The first salon I booth rented for around sixty days. I left because I thought the location was wrong. It was in the back of a beauty supply store and I wasn’t really ready to be marketing my business. After deciding to leave the second booth rent salon after about sixty days, I learned that booth renting wasn't for me at that time in my career and I wasn’t ready for life as a booth renter.

The third salon I worked for was a corporate salon that was commission based and I worked there about sixty days. It came with lots of restrictions and it taught me that I didn’t want to be restricted in my artistry by only being allowed to provide services that the brand allowed.

The forth salon was a commission based fifty dollar weave salon that taught me I wasn’t about that cheap service life and I wanted something different for my business but didn’t know what. I remained at that salon around twelve months.

By the time I reached my fifth salon, I was more intentional about my salon selection. I had more direction of where I saw myself going in my hairstyling career. I knew I wanted to have a diverse clientele and offer a variety of hair extension services. This salon taught me a variety of hair extension service and gave me a glimpse into what it looks like to properly run a beauty business. But the business was just dead slow there and after two years I said it's a wrap.

When I reached the sixth salon, it taught me that I had finally figured most things out for my business. I finally had a grasp on how I wanted to run it. It taught me that everyone in the industry is not customer oriented and working with other hairstylist wasn’t necessarily a benefit. At this point, my mindset was focused on building a business culture while others inside that salon was just into doing hair. I knew at some I would need to branch out on my own, if I didn't find a salon that had an atmosphere that I desired to run my business inside of.

This landed me to my salon suite, which I've now had for over seven years. Being a suite owner has taught me that I learned a lot from my previous career experiences and that I was heading down the right path in business. All the trainings, books, and coaching I've received along the way is paying off. The investments I made in my career early on and the ones that I continue to make is what keeps my business growing and thriving.

Developing your business mind and skill set is important to helping you advance in your hairstylist career.   

By now you know, there is more to a hairstylist career to just doing hair if you want to continue to grow and succeed!

Developing your business mind and skill set is just as important to helping you advance in your career as it is to acquiring technical skills. Making investments into strengthening your mind will help you to trust decisions that you make for yourself and your business. It will help you to better "stand on business"!

Investing in building your business skill set can position you to enhance customer experiences, automate processes within your business, reduce business expenses, increase revenue, produce more revenue streams and more.

Making investments in building my business skill set and mindset is what took me from barely making 5 figures a year, my first year as a hairstylist to having 5 figure months.

I started making smart moves for my business, that I was afraid to make before. It is what helped me to sit down with my pricing structure to raise my price to yield the profits my business needed to make. I was able to remove the fear of losing my clientele to higher prices, because my business mind was shifted into knowing that losing customers or clients is a part of the business process.

My business skill sets in learning about target audiences, how to run Facebook Ads, and how to build an attractive website, provided me with the tools needed to attract a demographic that would pay my premium rates and enjoy the customer experience my business have.  The business skill sets that I've acquired is what help me lower my business expenses because I don't have to hire someone to perform every job in my business. It allows me to get my business projects rolling faster not having to rely on someone for every little thing.


Our Business Academy

M.O.B. Business Academy equip professionals with essential business skills that will help them sustain and grow their business.
We foster a training environment that will assist business professionals and aspiring business owners in their careers through essential business and soft skills trainings that are created using real life scenarios and role play. We believe this approach is more effective in career and life development.

We believe in stimulating the business skill set and mindset through audio, digital, and hands-on experiences.


Our Digital Learning is designed to help build and strengthen the technical skill set of braidless and business. We also incorporate business tools to help build better businesses through blogs, digital tutorials, live training and discussions within our online community.  

Our Hands-On and interactive trainings are designed to enhance the training experience and may consist of role playing and live demonstrations.  

What's Included

Audio Training

Our Audio Learning is designed to help stimulate and strengthen the business mindset. 

Digital Training

Our Digital Learning is designed to help build and strengthen the technical skill set of braidless and business. We also incorporate business tools to help build better businesses through blogs, digital tutorials, live training and discussions within our online community.   

Hands-on

Our Hands-On and interactive trainings are designed to enhance the training experience and may consist of role playing and live demonstrations.  

Course Curriculum

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Self-paced trainings.    
Live monthly coaching.*    
Exclusive Resources & Guides   
 

Who's The Academy For

Licensed hairstylist or beauty students that desire to sustain and grow their beauty business.

Beauty professional who lacks the skills necessary to grow their business.

The business professional that want to develop their business mindset.

The beauty pro or student that want to grow their business income.

The professional that desire to run their business and not let the business run them.

The person that want to learn to run their business the right way.

The beauty pro or student that wish to have on-going support on their business journey.

What Students Are Saying

Lashonda

This is my second class with Shan and the information is always on point . She doesn't just teach you she follows up also . Love her !

Mo

Very informative and helpful information to get me on the right track in building my business credit.

Shetise

Mob Academy has been a blessing for me and my business, Shan is very patient, professional and business savvy. My sessions with Shan, has given me the tools needed to get my business organized, create a budget, learn how to build business credit, given resources for photography, videography, website design and logo design. I got inside tips and tricks on how to create content relevant to my brand, I learned about apps that will help me be more creative and save time and money. I learned so much with MOB Academy I can go on and on. The mentorship course is worth the investment I was able to use what I learned immediately. Making an immediate change for my business was exactly what I needed. Thank you MOB Academy!

Course Pricing

Business Academy

$47 USD

per month

  • Helping you build your business skill set and mind set.

    • Monthly Coaching Call
    • Get Inspired: Stay Motivated
    • Business Structured Courses
    • Marketing Courses
    • Financial Courses
    • Social Media Courses
    • E-guides & E-books
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Shan Hughes

Shanitra "Shan" founded M.O.B. Academy on the premises of helping transform the braidless skill sets and business mindsets of beauty professionals. She wanted to help her beauty peers build a business not just through their skillset but through learning essential business skills that would help sustain and grow their business.

Shanitra’s former restaurant management and HR Specialist skills helped create and shape her business work ethics in her beauty business. In those roles is where she learned invaluable customer service, communication, management, and time management skills. She resolved employee conflicts, facilitated group orientations, and customer service trainings. These core skills are what foster the business environment for her own beauty business. It’s what has helped her sustain and continue to grow her beauty business.

She has over 8 years of running and growing a beauty business, with over nine years’ experience in performing the no-braid sew-in weaving technique. She’s dedicated to teaching and helping others grow. Through our academy, Shanitra “Shan” has formed relationships with local colleges and trained students across the globe.