Course and Careers Guide - Headmasters Hairdressing Academy

Headmasters Advanced Academy Training is the most respected
hairdressing, beauty therapy and fashion design academy in
Melbourne. Centrally located in Collins Street, the heart of Melbourne’s
fashion precinct, Headmasters has a proud tradition of producing
talented hairdressers, beauty therapists, spa managers and fashion
designers who are all industry ready.
In 1997 Donna and Wayne Gannon accepted the challenge
to raise the standard of skills, training and service in the
Hairdressing and Beauty industry, successfully establishing a
benchmark training and learning institution – Headmasters
Academy.
Donna and Wayne are acknowledged as established leaders in
Hairdressing and Beauty, with over four decades of experience
and practice supporting their training and education
programs. They have owned and operated successful salons,
distributed products and represented the Hairdressing and
Beauty industry both nationally and internationally. Wayne is
a recipient of the prestigious Medal of Honour awarded by
La Confederation Internationale de La Coiffure, the highest
international Award in the Hairdressing industry.
With such professional standing, Headmasters was embraced
from the first student intake by apprentices and employers
alike. Headmasters is one of the largest private providers of
Hairdressing training in Australia. Many of Melbourne’s leading
salons rely on the skills and expertise of Headmasters to
develop the talent and potential of the future leading stylists
and beauty / day spa therapists.
Headmasters provides a fun and friendly environment with
professional facilitators and state-of-the-art facilities for
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students to explore their new industry and complete their
training. Students are welcomed from all parts of the world
and mix with local students to learn the latest creative and
innovative techniques and graduate with leading edge skills.
International students now make up part of Headmasters
student body providing diversity in culture and community
and a global view of hairdressing and beauty. From afar afield
as England, France, Canada, China, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Japan,
Korea and India, students from 44 countries have come to
Headmasters as the premier training institute in Australia.
Headmasters has a strong international reputation with alumni
successfully employed and now running their own business in
many different countries.
A wise man once said, “it’s the journey not the destination
that’s important”. Headmasters philosophy recognises both
the value of endeavour and the end goal with students
graduating highly skilled as well as keen to keep testing their
own boundaries. Headmasters students have fun as they
make their own future. Leading salons, such as Rokk Ebony,
Shibui, Falcone Hairdressing, Hennesy Lane, Masci Hair &
Spa and Rakis, all send their apprentices to Headmasters
with certain knowledge of leading edge training and
specialist facilitators.