The newest wave of educators has officially been announced for ICES Fort Lauderdale, and if one thing is clear, it’s that today’s esthetics industry is evolving faster than ever before.
This year’s lineup goes far beyond treatment demonstrations. Across the weekend, attendees will have the opportunity to learn from celebrity estheticians, successful solo practitioners, luxury spa experts, acne specialists, educators, and entrepreneurs who have built seven-figure businesses. Every speaker is bringing practical strategies that attendees can immediately implement in their treatment rooms and businesses.
Whether your focus is advanced skin correction, creating unforgettable client experiences, building a recognizable brand, or scaling your business, these newly announced classes offer education for every stage of your career.
Elevating the Client Experience
Luxury isn’t defined by expensive products alone. It’s created through intentional details that make clients feel cared for from the moment they walk through your door.
Aya Abramov’s session, Crafting a High-End Ritual: The Subtle Touch Techniques That Define a Luxury Service, explores the subtle techniques that transform a basic facial into a premium experience. Through a live demonstration, attendees will learn how fascia release, intentional touch, energetic grounding, and thoughtful service flow can dramatically elevate treatment results while creating the kind of experience clients remember and recommend.
Niva Leones approaches the client journey from another angle in Booked & Busy: Mastering the Client Experience. Her class focuses on strengthening consultations, creating customized treatment plans, confidently educating clients, increasing rebooking rates, and building lasting relationships that keep appointment books full.
Together, these sessions reinforce an important lesson. Exceptional results begin long before the first product touches the skin.
Mastering Corrective Skincare
Corrective treatments continue to dominate professional skincare, making advanced acne education one of the most valuable investments an esthetician can make.
Morgan Cameron, founder of Enlightened Beauty and creator of The Enlightened Acne Method, brings her expertise to Mastering Acne Correction & Chemical Peel Layering. Attendees will learn how to properly assess acne conditions, strategically layer chemical peels, strengthen compromised skin barriers, and develop customized treatment plans that deliver long-term results. She also shares the common mistakes that often slow progress and explains how pairing professional treatments with effective home care can dramatically improve outcomes.
Joining her is legendary celebrity esthetician Renée Rouleau, whose class How Renée Rouleau Treats Acne: A Celebrity Esthetician’s Approach draws from nearly four decades of clinical experience treating more than 25,000 faces. Rather than focusing on products alone, Renée teaches attendees how topical care, lifestyle, habits, and internal factors all contribute to acne while demonstrating the prevention strategies and treatment techniques she uses with her celebrity clientele.
For estheticians looking to refine their corrective skills, these sessions offer invaluable education backed by decades of real-world experience.
Branding, Mindset, and Becoming the Go-To Esthetician
Technical skill may bring clients through the door, but confidence, branding, and authenticity are what create long-term success.
Mary Peyton Pitt’s Becoming the Magnetic Esthetician: Where Mindset, Branding & Entrepreneurship Meet to Attract Dream Clients explores the connection between mindset, business strategy, branding, and exceptional client experiences. Attendees will learn how to build confidence, better understand the numbers behind their business, create a memorable brand, and naturally attract their ideal clientele.
Genesis Quiñones continues the conversation in More Than Booked: The Mindset Behind Sustainable Success, where she openly discusses the realities of entrepreneurship, overcoming comparison, navigating burnout, and building a business rooted in authenticity rather than constant hustle.
Andrea García expands on authenticity through the lens of marketing in Your Story Is Your Superpower: How Authenticity & Social Media Can Build a Thriving Esthetics Business. She shares how intentional storytelling and meaningful social media content can help estheticians attract ideal clients while building genuine relationships with their online communities.
Together, these sessions remind attendees that building a successful business begins with understanding who you are and communicating that consistently.
Learning from Industry Icons
Some of this year’s educators have become household names within the beauty industry, giving attendees the opportunity to learn directly from professionals whose influence extends far beyond the treatment room.
Jadé Marie Chapman will demonstrate her signature Hollywood facial while sharing the techniques behind her internationally recognized Signature 180° Technique. Attendees will also gain insight into the business strategies, product development, and personal branding that helped establish her as one of the industry’s most recognizable educators.
Celebrity brow artist René de la Garza brings A-List Brow Lamination Mastery to ICES Fort Lauderdale, offering an inside look at the same brow lamination techniques he performs on celebrity clientele. Beyond technique, attendees will also learn the business strategies that helped transform Brow Down Studio into a nationally recognized luxury brand.
For professionals looking to refine their artistry while learning directly from some of the industry’s most influential names, these live demonstrations promise to be highlights of the weekend.
Scaling Beyond the Treatment Room
Building a successful practice requires more than technical expertise. It also requires thinking like an entrepreneur.
Nevette Ramos and Jason Ramos bring exactly that perspective in The Secrets to a 7-Figure Beauty Business. Their session explores branding, multiple revenue streams, team building, financial management, and the systems that helped them scale their businesses into seven-figure enterprises. Attendees will leave with practical strategies that can be adapted to practices of every size, whether they’re just getting started or preparing for their next phase of growth.
Creating Your Own Path
One of the newest additions to this year’s lineup encourages attendees to think beyond the traditional definition of what it means to be an esthetician.
In Create Your Own Lane: Building an Esthetics Career Beyond the Traditional Path, Samantha Garcia explores how embracing your unique strengths, passions, and experiences can open doors far beyond the treatment room. Drawing from her work as a spa owner, magazine editor, podcast host, and educator, she encourages estheticians to stop comparing themselves to others and instead build careers that reflect their own vision, creativity, and purpose.
Whether your dream is to educate, speak, create products, write, or open your own spa, this session is a reminder that there is no single blueprint for success. Often, the most fulfilling careers are the ones we create ourselves.
An Education Lineup Designed for the Modern Esthetician
What makes this year’s newly announced speakers especially exciting is the diversity of expertise they bring to the conference. Rather than focusing on one specialty, the lineup reflects the many directions today’s estheticians are taking their careers. Advanced corrective treatments, luxury service experiences, business growth, branding, social media, entrepreneurship, and mindset are all represented by educators who have built successful careers in their respective fields.
Whether you’re attending to master advanced techniques, strengthen your business, or simply gain fresh inspiration, the newly announced educators at ICES Fort Lauderdale promise a weekend filled with practical education, meaningful conversations, and ideas that will continue shaping your career long after the conference comes to a close.
