Melinda Minton Bio
Melinda Minton, a spa, wellness, salon consultant and health and beauty expert, is a past spa owner, certified massage therapist, esthetician and cosmetologist. Minton has a formal background in business with additional shooling from Harvard. Minton has consulted on spa management issues, product formulations, spa profitability and strategy among sundry other projects. Minton has worked on hundreds of projects involving everything from spa start-ups to launching marketing programs for Fortune 500 companies. Minton is the founder of The Spa Association (SPAA), a world-class organization dedicated to enriching the professional beauty industry through self-regulation, education and sound business practices. In 2006, Minton was appointed to the United States Business Advisory Council (BAC) representing small business interest and was named Colorado Business Women of the Year by the Presidential Commission of the Bush administration.
Minton founded and launched Reed Elsevier’s Spa and Resort and co-located Medical Spa conferences now in Miami, New York City and Los Angeles. Minton has also organized the International Fitness Show, Club Industry spa track events for Primedia for many years. Melinda has written countless consumer and trade publications and columns. She is the author of 5 books. Featured for consecutive years in Entrepreneur magazine, Minton serves as an expert resource for such publications as Better Homes and Gardens, Shape, First for Women, In Style, and Alternative Medicine magazines and is on the Board of Directors for Healing Retreats and Spas, Jane and Hotel Executive magazines. Clients have included: Roche, Teledyne Waterpik, Borghese, Avon, Disney, Solta Medical, the Mandarin Oriental, Estee Lauder, Vitamin Logic and Nordstrom.