December Health & Wellness Meeting with Debbie Penzone
Join NAWBO Columbus and Debbie Penzone, president and CEO of Charles Penzone Incorporated for a monthly meeting focused on Health & Wellness!
Debbie has a distinguished resume as a salon industry innovator, community leader, author, philanthropist, and lifestyle expert. She is passionate about wellness and inspiring others to live their fullest lives – and integrating these same principles into the business.
Stay & Connect
Registrants will have the option to stay after the meeting to connect and network. Join NAWBO members and Business Champions for facilitated discussion and connection after the meeting from 12:30-1:00pm utilizing Zoom breakout rooms.
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Debbie is proud to lead a team of hundreds as president and CEO of Charles Penzone Incorporated, an Ohio-based group of world-class salons and spas with six locations that serve more than 300,000 guests a year. Debbie spent more than 30 years helping to strategically build and evolve the company as a stylist, artistic director, training director and senior vice president before taking the organization’s helm in 2008. Additionally, Debbie recently opened L I T Life + Yoga with the intent of spreading and empowering people with the message of wellness, health and beauty from the inside-out.
Debbie has been celebrated for her business acumen and community leadership:
- Under her leadership, PENZONE Salon+Spa Dublin won 2019“ Salon of the Year” by SalonToday magazine
- Additionally, PENZONE Salon + Spa Dublin won the 2019 North American Hairstyling Awards’ “Salon Design of the Year”
- Columbus Business First named Debbie as a 2019 C-Suite Honoree, a most admired executive in Central Ohio
- Salon Today magazine named her among its 20 Most Intriguing Salon Owners.
- Modern Salon honored her with its Spirit of Noel award.
- SmartBusiness magazine recognized Debbie as a Power100 leader and Smart50 top executive.
- Columbus’s Business First honored her as a Forty Under 40 awardee and one of CentralOhio’s 20 Most Remarkable Women.
- Distinguished as a YWCA Woman of Achievement.
- Awarded Smart Business’ prestigious Kent Clapp CEO Leadership Award.
- Recognized as Volunteer of the Year by the American Cancer Society, twice.
Raised in a tight-knit family in a small town, Debbie is passionate about giving back, from leading a nonprofit board to driving to the hospital and taking the time to style a cancer patient. Debbie donates a considerable amount of time serving on the boards of several industry, non-profit and charitable organizations, including:
- Vice President of the International Salon Spa Business Network
- Member of Intercoiffure and the Professional Beauty Association
- Childhood League Assisting Board XII
- American Heart Association Board Member
- Franklin Park Conservatory Sustaining Board Member
Formerly:
- Responsible Restart Ohio Personal Services Advisory Group Chairperson
- Childhood League Center President
- Women’s President Organization Board Member
- A Kid Again Board Member
- American Cancer Society Board Member
- Dress for Success Board Member
- Haven of Hope Board Member
- SAKS Fifth Avenue External Advisory Board Member
Debbie founded Earth Angels, a foundation that donates money to causes from fighting cancer to empowering girls. Recently, she opened a new fund at The Columbus Foundation called the “LIT LOVE LIFE + YOGA Fund” which supports wellness in all forms all throughout Columbus. She established the Charles Penzone Mother-Daughter Spa Day with A Kid Again, which has been pampering teen cancer patients and their mothers for nearly 20 years. She helped American Cancer Society develop its “Look Good, Feel Better” program, and is an active supporter of Pelotonia and Komen Race for the Cure.
Debbie also authored “Debbie’s ClubTM: Discovering MyTrueBeautyTM for Girls,” an interactive workbook to inspire girls to recognize their unique inner beauty.
She is a certified yoga instructor and meditation guide, a marathon runner, a cyclist, a vegan, an optimist, a traveler, an art lover and a fashion enthusiast. She is a devoted wife to husband Charles, chairman and founder of Charles Penzone Incorporated. When not leading the business, you’ll likely find her cooking up a new recipe in the kitchen, laughing with her husband or on a yoga mat.
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Special Notes:
A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the week of the event from NawboColumbus@wildapricot.org.
Registrations must be paid in advance.
Cancellations made after 5:00 pm on the Monday prior to the Meeting will not be refunded.
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