Business conditioning: Schwarzkopf's Global Ambassador Antony Whitaker provides business owners with ten focus zones to grow...

Wellington-born Antony Whitaker is well qualified to advise small business owners. In a 25-year career which included a stint as artistic director for Vidal Sassoon in London, he has also owned a number of successful and not-so-successful hair salons. He admits that the latter taught him much more about business management.

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Internationally acclaimed as a cutter, educator, motivator and hairdressing businessman, Whitaker was in New Zealand recently as Schwarzkopf's Global Ambassador, performing a number of hairdressing shows and busines