About - Empowering You Consulting

About Empowering You®

Meet Your Personal Dream Team of Millionaire and High-Revenue Salon Owners and Nationally Recognized Coaches + Trainers

Amy Carter

Principal and Founder of Empowering You Consulting

Amy Carter’s goals as a coach are simple: to inspire you to become a better leader, to mold you into a smarter business owner, and to help you achieve personal and professional satisfaction. As the owner of one of Indiana’s top salons (placing on Salon Today’s Top 200 list for 15 years in a row), she knows what it takes to reinvent a business and train a leadership team that’s invested in long-term success. Amy has turned this knowledge into a passion for coaching, and as Owner & Founder of Empowering You Consulting, she helps salons and spas across the nation every day.

It’s time to let Amy help you expand your client base, increase profits, operate more efficiently, and train a team of leaders so you can gain personal satisfaction from your professional endeavors.

Meg King

Business Consultant and Life Coach

Meg King is a powerhouse business coach and consultant with over 40 years in the beauty industry and 22 years as a successful spa owner. She’s walked the path of triumphs and turbulence, and every lesson in between. Meg uses that lived wisdom to help entrepreneurs break free from overwhelm, reclaim their confidence, and build businesses that actually support the life they want.

A lifelong mentor, educator, and student of her craft, Meg is known for helping leaders face change head-on instead of shrinking from it. Her secret? She blends strategy with clear systems, strong communication, and mindset leadership to shift clients out of fear and into momentum.

Her coaching empowers business owners to strengthen their teams, elevate their guests experience, and generate new revenue through smart, creative, and fully supported solutions.

Kim Gibson

Certified Consultant

The daughter of a salon-owner, Kim Gibson has the beauty industry in her blood, so it was no wonder she opened her own salon. It was also no wonder it felt like a ball and chain until she received coaching and revolutionized how she does business. After seeing the results Empowering You delivers – she experienced 75% growth in just one year – she joined Empowering You as a consultant. Now she works to show other salons the strategies and tips that resulted in her impressive growth. She and her husband are active with a number of churches in her area and launched Embrace, a Christ-centered nonprofit that mentors young people.

Ashley Mitchell

Certified Coach & Consultant | Salon Owner

Ashley Mitchell is a nationally recognized salon owner, business coach, and beauty industry consultant based in Houston, Texas, with over 20 years of experience building profitable, sustainable salon businesses. Her career was forged behind the chair, where excellence, discipline, and results set the foundation for her leadership today. In 2019, she transitioned from suite owner to salon owner just months before the pandemic—and while many closed their doors, Ashley grew her salon revenue by 106%, proving that structure outperforms circumstance.

In 2021, she expanded her impact nationally as a business coach with Empowering You Consulting, bringing real-world execution to an industry tired of theory. Ashley is known for developing strong operators—owners who understand their numbers, lead with confidence, and build businesses that support both profit and life. Her work focuses on leadership, systems, profitability, and long-term sustainability, not hustle culture or shortcuts. Ashley Mitchell isn’t here to motivate the industry—she’s here to raise the standard.

David Wenzel

Certified Consultant | Salon Owner

David Wenzel is a successful entrepreneur and consultant who has made a name for himself in his community. After spending 10 years in banking, David’s mother suggested that he turn to cosmetology. He took her advice and eventually opened his dream salon. Through his hard work and dedication, he learned the importance of hiring a consultant to help him grow his company. David’s salon quickly became a success and was recently named 2023 Best of Southwest Missouri’s Best Hair Salon. However, he knew that this was just the beginning. David has since ventured into consulting, where he is passionate about helping other salon and spa owners grow and develop their businesses to be the thriving companies they envisioned. David’s experience in the beauty industry has taught him the importance of having a strong team and investing in the right tools and resources. He brings this knowledge to his consulting work, helping others to become the leaders they can be and take their companies to the next level. Overall, David Wenzel is a driven and successful entrepreneur who is dedicated to helping others succeed in the beauty industry.

Courtney Sutton

Executive Assistant

As an Executive Assistant with a forward-thinking mindset, Courtney stays 100 steps ahead, pairing fresh perspective with deep empathy and meticulous attention to detail. A trusted right hand to leadership and the quiet glue holding the team together, she creates structure out of chaos, supports seamlessly on the back end, and catches whatever’s thrown her way with calm precision. Known for simplifying the complex and teaching others with clarity and patience, Courtney keeps everyone aligned, organized, and empowered to do their best work.

Baylee Blackburn

Marketing Manager

Baylee is the marketing manager and a key leader at Empowering You Consulting. She helps bring the company’s vision to life through strategy, storytelling, and execution turning ideas into campaigns, trainings, and experiences that actually move the needle.

Her role spans marketing strategy, email and funnel development, webinar and training creation, social media growth, and live event support. Baylee is known for her ability to connect the big picture to the details, solve problems quickly, and keep projects moving forward with clarity and intention.

With a degree in Marketing and Sales from Indiana University Southeast and years of hands-on experience in the beauty industry, Baylee blends creativity with structure and data-driven thinking. She’s passionate about building meaningful connections, supporting business owners as they grow, and helping Empowering You deliver education that leads to real results.