Beauty brands hire me to translate their science into something a customer believes.
I've done it from inside the company, on the retail floor, and on camera.
Former Head of Global Education at Biossance and Tata Harper — the retail training programs behind brand launches at:
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Most people in this job have done one part of it
Influencers don't run retail trainings. Education consultants don't always perform on camera. Product marketers have usually never touched a client's skin.
I've done all three, in that order, over sixteen years.
I learned on real skin.
Licensed since 2010, with firsthand experience of what products must deliver beyond the claims.
I led the education strategy.
More than a decade leading global education for Biossance and Tata Harper.
I learned what earns attention.
Training associates across the country's leading prestige beauty retailers.
I learned how to hold a room.
Theatre-trained, with years of experience turning expertise into memorable live education.
I learned to deliver the message.
Creating credible content that puts the expert directly in front of the audience.
I connected story to product.
Working across product development and marketing—not just brand.
I know how to turn technical truth into a story people understand—and a reason they believe.
Content created for
Selected work
Every piece here started the same way: a brand knew something true about its product that customers weren't getting. Good science, no bridge. That's the job.
Naturium Multi-Peptide Moisturizer
Ingredient education framed for the second purchase rather than the first. What it does, how long it takes, and what to expect if you keep going.
Copper Peptide Serum
Breaking down why GHK-Cu went viral, and separating the clinical evidence from the trend.
Bon Charge Red Light Mask
What red light does beyond topical skincare, and what it actually takes to even out tone.
Nurse Jamie
An esthetician's honest take on which at-home tools are worth keeping in the routine.
Microneedling Patches
Making an intimidating-looking product feel approachable, without losing the humor.
Gutgutgoose Probiotic
Translating a crowded supplement category into what actually matters for the customer.
Three ways to work together
Education strategy and field enablement
For brands who need their science translated into tools that equip sales teams and educate customers.
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Curriculum and training programs, retail and spa channel strategy, field team enablement, launch education, and the internal materials that make a sales force fluent. This is the work I did in-house for fourteen years, now available without the headcount.
Retainer.
Content and spokesperson partnerships
For brand marketing teams who need a credible face rather than a stack of deliverables.
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Education-led short form, ingredient explainers, launch content, tutorials, and ongoing spokesperson work. Scripting through delivery. The difference is that I can defend what I say about your formula, because I've spent a career explaining formulas to people who sell them for a living.
Monthly partnership or project.
Public Speaking and Live Shopping
Keynotes, retailer events, masterclasses, brand events, live shopping.
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Theatre degree, sixteen years of standing in front of rooms full of skeptical retail associates. Live is where I'm most useful and it converts better than anything pre-recorded.
Project.
Not sure which one you need? Book a call and we'll work it out.
“Live is where I'm most useful and it converts better than anything pre-recorded.”
Client feedback
"Thrilled to connect you with McKenzie Bolt, truly one of the best educators and brand partners in the industry. McKenzie has led global education at both Tata Harper and Biossance, bringing deep experience across education development, retail training, spa channel strategy, events, and content creation, and that just scratches the surface. Beyond her experience, she's thoughtful, strategic, creative, and simply fantastic to work with."
Danny Venezia, Director of Sales, Le Prunier
"Danny speaks very highly of you and how effortlessly you connect with and engage retailers and in-store associates through your trainings."
Jacqueline Taylor Fiechter, Co-Founder, Le Prunier
Consulting clients — Soft Services · Hypothesis Bio · Le Prunier
I've been on every side of this problem
I started with a theatre degree, which is a strange way into skincare until you've watched someone try to explain peptides to a room of forty retail associates at 8am.
I got my esthetician license in 2010 and spent years with my hands on real skin, in spas and treatment rooms, learning what people actually ask when they're worried about their face. Then I moved inside brands. Head of Global Education at Tata Harper for six and a half years, at Biossance for seven and a half. I built the curriculum, trained the field teams, and wrote the language that retail associates used at Sephora, Ulta, Credo, Nordstrom, Saks, Bluemercury, Neiman Marcus, and Space NK.
That job was translation. Chemists and NPD teams on one side, a customer standing in a store with a specific problem on the other. My job was to get one to the other without losing what was true.
Now I do it on camera myself, instead of briefing someone else to do it.
I'm also a working parent, which is less a credential than a filter. I'm not going to recommend a routine nobody has time for, and I notice when a product actually makes a day easier. It shapes what I choose to feature more than it shapes how I talk.
How it works
Fit call
Twenty minutes on what you're launching, who's selling it, and where the customer is getting lost.
Scope
I come back with a recommendation and a number. Retainer, project, or a single event.
Build
Curriculum, content, or deck. Drafts, one structured round of feedback, delivery.
Field
Training delivered, content shipped, event run. Then we look at what landed and what to change.
Tell me what you're launching
I work with skincare and beauty brands that have a real science story and no one whose whole job is making it land.
Book a time below, or email me directly.
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