Sally Marchand Collins
Owner & Artistic Director
Voted Best Hair Stylist by Indianapolis Monthly
Sally Marchand Collins has been a passionate award-winning hairstylist since 1986 and is owner and artistic director of Sundance SalonSpa in Zionsville, Indiana since 1997. She has been inspiring her team and the salon’s guests to love themselves and develop their beauty from inside and challenge them to get outside, live life to the fullest and conquer their fears. One of her greatest accomplishments is training a team of employees to work in harmony, while focusing on her employees’ strengths while eliminating weaknesses and reinforcing their accomplishments has been a key to our successful business.
There is a saying in behavioral psychology, “Catch’em being good!” It makes a difference in the working environment and comes back to you two-fold.
Additionally, Sally has been a mountain bike instructor since 2003 and is owner/Chief Enthusiasm Officer of Sundance MTB Skills Clinic and Adventure, LLC, offering elite mountain bike skills instruction, bike retreats, team building bike camps, racing tactics and on-trail clinics and mountain bike trail guide.
Further, she is owner of Electric Fox, offering professional mountain bike fitting service, customized training programs, race events, mobile assistance to mountain bikers along with bike rentals, and public speaking engagements.
Recently, she started Sundance MTB Powered by Electric Fox mountain bike race team and club to build youth and adults’ confidence, leadership skills, and fitness through mountain biking.
Sally enjoys fundraising, having raised $40,000 for trails in multiple state parks throughout the Midwest and $150,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) and has been coaching the LLS Team In Training cycling team since 2002. She lost her husband in 2001 to leukemia and finds working with others during their tough times and providing comfort when life becomes minus one to be at the heart of what she does.
She participates in community service activities such as Earth Day clean-ups, Hoosier Mountain Bike Association trail maintenance crew work for Brown County State Park mountain bike trail systems, and serving as a volunteer firefighter (#538) for the Jackson Township Fire Department in Brown County.
Sally has been featured in multiple media outlets including the Indiana Business Journal, Indianapolis Star, USA Today, WTHI TV, WISH TV Indy Style, CBS 4, among many others.
Sally retired from the pro-endurance mountain bike race circuit, finishing 3rd in the Solo Elite 24 Hour World Championships in California.
She lives in Nashville and is the proud owner of two dogs (Sadie and Charley) and two cats (Boulder and Moab).
- 2015Qnity for AVEDA: An education & tools company that helps creative professionals in the beauty industry achieve greater prosperity.
- 2012Extraordinary Guest Services
- 2009No-Compromise Leadership Boot Camp
The Strategies Incubator - 2006Aveda Business College
Advanced Aveda Color Classes
Aveda Hair Color/Hair Cutting Class - 2005Aveda Business College
Inspiring Champions
Advanced Aveda Color Class
Aveda Hair Color/Hair Cutting Class - 2004Aveda Hair Color/Hair Cutting Class
Advanced Aveda Color Class - 2003Aveda Hair Color/Hair Cutting Class
- 2002Aveda Hair Color/Hair Cutting Class
- 2001Brown Institute Mentor – Ohio
Minneapolis Aveda Congress
Aveda Hair Color/Hair Cutting Class - 2000Van Michael Salon – Ohio
David Wagner Juut Salon and Spa – Ohio
Aveda Hair Color/Hair Cutting Class
Aveda Hair Color/Hair Cutting Class
- 1987-1999Roy Peters Conference – Michigan 1987, 1988
Trevor Sorbie Conference – Michigan 1987-1990
Doug Cox Conference – Michigan 1987-1988
Horst Rechelbacher Conference – 1988-1998
David Wagner Juut Salon & Spa – Ohio 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
VOTED BEST HAIR STYLIST IN INDIANAPOLIS 1992
Scott Cole Color Cutting Training Systems – Michigan/Chicago/Indianapolis 1994
Antoinette Beeders – Ohio 1995
Martin Parson – Chicago 1995, 1996, 1997
Aveda Institute Minneapolis, Minnesota 1995, 1997
Advanced Makeup/Photo Shoot Class with Fatima Olive 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
Van Michael Salon – Ohio 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
Brown Institute Mentor – Ohio 1995
Aveda Hair Color/Hair Cutting Class – 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
Pivot Point – Chicago 1996
Aveda Institute – New York 1998
New York City Aveda Congress – 1998
Mahogany/David Adams – New York 1998