Theresa Huang has been in the beauty industry for the last 35 years. Her initial years centered around the training of various levels of staff in the beauty industry. She was formally the Managing Director of L’Oreal Singapore. Since early 2007, Theresa has taken her wealth of experience and moved on to provide consultancy services in both distributions of cosmetics and beauty products as well as spa and hospitality services in the region.

Her passion for professionalism in the beauty and spa industry, together with her strong desire to contribute to achieving high standards in the beauty and wellness industry, led her to establish ‘Urban Beauty Academy’. This prestigious center of learning in Singapore aims to provide a complete and holistic approach to professional training for beauty and spa therapists, thus the adoption of its tagline “Defining Beauty Professionals”. Theresa has trained many management and beauty professionals and has successfully advised on various business development and growth strategies including the injection of new and creative ideas in line with market trends.

Theresa further believes strongly in providing all our course participants with the required soft skills emphasizing particularly on customer and client care as well as effective communication skills which are key factors required in attaining excellence in service quality. The training of such skills is also being extended to all in the retail and service sectors of our economy.

As a practitioner, training has been Theresa’s, first love. Urban Beauty Academy has provided her the opportunity (together with all the “top gurus”) to share and transmit realistic and effective theoretical and practical know-how to the next generation of wellness & beauty personnel in the industry.

In 2007, Theresa and Urban Beauty Academy started a journey with the Style Coaching Institute® to pioneer Style Coaching™ in Asia. This started with Theresa’s own training to become a Style Coach™ and she gained experience by practicing with her own clients. Later in 2011, the introduction of Style Coach™ courses in Asia saw Singapore confidently leading the way into the future with Theresa at the helm. Today, Style Coaching™ is seen as a prestigious, premium, and sought-after brand in the Singapore context and the trained Style Coaches™ are working with some of the top brands, companies, and government departments in Asia.