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Louisville Beauty Academy CEO Di Tran Honored as One of Business First’s 2024 Most Admired CEOs – 10-03-2024

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We are proud to announce that Di Tran, CEO of Louisville Beauty Academy, has been recognized as one of Louisville Business First’s 2024 Most Admired CEOs. This prestigious honor highlights Di Tran’s visionary leadership and unwavering dedication to uplifting the Louisville community through education, workforce development, and entrepreneurship.

Elevating Lives and Creating Opportunities

Under Di Tran’s leadership, Louisville Beauty Academy has graduated more than 1,000 students, with a majority being new immigrants who are soon to become proud American citizens. These graduates are not just entering the job market—they are thriving, with a nearly 90% job placement rate. Many have gone on to become successful salon owners and small business entrepreneurs, contributing to the local economy and elevating the beauty industry in Kentucky.

Affordable, Flexible, and Inclusive Education

What sets Louisville Beauty Academy apart is its commitment to accessibility. By offering 50% to 75% scholarships or tuition discounts, Di Tran ensures that individuals from all walks of life—especially immigrants—can pursue a legitimate career in beauty. This mission aligns with the Academy’s goal of boosting the local job market and expanding the pool of licensed talent in the beauty industry.

Expanding the Mission: New Partnerships and Locations

Louisville Beauty Academy’s mission doesn’t stop with education. Di Tran and his team are preparing to open their second location in partnership with Harbor House of Louisville. This new facility will be part of Harbor House’s evolving intergenerational and multicultural workforce development center, serving individuals with disabilities, offering childcare, elder care, and job training. Together, they are creating smiles and opportunities for all, proving that beauty is more than skin deep—it’s about transforming lives.

Di Tran: A Mission-Driven Leader

Di Tran’s recognition as one of Louisville’s most admired CEOs is a testament to his leadership, vision, and heart for service. His efforts go beyond running a beauty school. Di Tran is committed to empowering communities, supporting new immigrants, and fostering job growth. He is the epitome of a leader who works for the betterment of others, driven by the desire to “Create Smiles” in every life he touches.

As Louisville Beauty Academy continues to grow, with its second location poised to make an even greater impact, we are immensely proud of Di Tran and the entire team. This recognition only further solidifies our commitment to delivering excellence in beauty education and community service.

Louisville Globalization - Di Tran - Louisville Beauty Academy - Founder

Louisville Beauty Academy – Louisville City – Louisville Forward – Globalization – Di Tran – Founder – Spread Community Service Mentality – 05-21-2021

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Louisville Beauty Academy – Founder – Di Tran – Spreading the Community Service Mentality

Di Tran is the founder of Louisville Institute of Technology and the Louisville Beauty Academy. He is currently a participant in the Louisville Welcome Academy, the Office for Globalization’s free leadership training program for leaders who work with the international population.

His work was recently highlighted in Louisville Business First.

Tran says that he is on a mission to bridge the gap that exists “between the foundational knowledge students can learn through college and the practical application of skills that businesses are looking for in new hires.”

The Louisville Institute of Technology is a post-secondary education institution that offers a three-month apprenticeship program for students who want to their basic knowledge and turn it into in-demand skills. 

Tran would like to work with employers to offer the program as an alternative training programs, get accredited through the U.S. Department of Education so that students have financial aid options, and become approved by the Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education in order for veterans to use their benefits. 

Click here to learn more on this program 

Click here to learn more about the Louisville Institute of Technology

Di Tran - Jewish Family & Career Services - Mosaic Award Winner - May 2021

Jewish Family & Career Services – MOSAIC Award Recipient – Di Tran – 05-20-2021

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Jewish Family & Career Services is proud to honor our MOSAIC Award recipients. These five individuals who call Louisville home have made significant contributions in their professions and our community. To date, JFCS has recognized almost 70 refugees, immigrants, and first-generation Americans who make our community richer and stronger for their work. We are excited to have Neeli Bendapudi, Di Tran, Berta Weyenberg, Kaveh Zamanian, and Bapion Ziba join the ranks of these remarkable individuals.

Di Tran - Jewish Family & Career Services - Mosaic Award Winner - May 2021
Di Tran – Jewish Family & Career Services – Mosaic Award Winner – May 2021

This is Di Tran’s story.

Di Tran was 12 years old when he fled Vietnam with his parents and three sisters to begin a new life. Knowing no one in the United States, they reached out to Catholic Charities who sponsored them to come to Louisville. His parents worked factory jobs, sleeping about five hours a night for five years until they saved enough to build USA Nails on Broadway.

After school, Di worked in the store every day. He went on to University of Louisville and earned a master’s degree in computer engineering and sciences while helping his mother to expand the number of nail salons they had in Louisville.

Di worked at UPS, Humana and other companies in Louisville all the while expanding the family business. Ultimately, with his mother, he started the Louisville Beauty Academy and since its opening in 2016, have trained more than 260 people in cosmetology, nail technology, aesthetic.

Today, Di Tran runs Di Tran Enterprises, LLC which owns and operates licensed private post-secondary schools, as well as a variety of small businesses in the greater Louisville metropolitan area.

Additionally, Di serves as the President and Chief Academic Officer for the Louisville Institute of Technology, a post-secondary education institution he founded with the mission to prepare students and apprentices through intense, immersive practical training so that they may qualify for and attain employment in high-demand information technology technical fields and professions.

Di’s life story demonstrates the power of working hard to achieve goals, which is something JFCS Career Services clients do every day. Like Di, our clients rely on their own talents and strengths, receiving support from our career counselors along the way, to make and achieve their goals.

References

MOSAIC Award Recipient – Di Tran

LBF – Family Business Awards: Di Tran – Founder of Louisville Beauty Academy – 05-18-2021

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Louisville Business First (LBF) – Di Tran – Family Awards

Tell us about your role with your company and how you’ve contributed to making the business better.

As the founder, I am the business leader, motivator, finance officer, and chief labor worker. I simply wear multiple hats as any small business owner would. The key is, I enjoy doing all those things and love helping every single individual that I interact with, one way or another. There’s no job that is too small or too big. Lead by example, learn like a life-long student, be a mentee to many and be a mentor to a lot.

What have you learned from older family members in your family business?

Always be in survival mode. Always be hungry. Always serve and use your small business to serve even more. Focus on the need of the community and you will find your business in it.

What are you most excited about for the future of your company?

My dream is to have 1,000 graduates from our schools and, more importantly, 1,000 of those graduates being employed. I am close to the 500 marks. Of course, I don’t wish to stop at 1,000 but exponentially increase that number. That’s where the satisfaction comes in — giving back/paying forward to the No. 1 country on Earth and the best people on the planet, the United States of America, and, more specifically, the city of Louisville and its people.

Where would you like your career to be in 10 years?

I don’t focus on my career nor plan that far for myself or my career. My eye and mind are on a very specific target of what I want to accomplish, and that is those 1,000 graduates and many of those I mentor be successful. I want to die happy and smiling that I did pay it back to this No. 1 country on Earth that has accepted me and made it my second home for my family and my children.

What is something you think your generation does in terms of business better than any other generation?

Better is not the term I would use because if we read the history, processes, and rules for business success never change. As an example, small business success comes from hard work, persistence, failing a lot (fail 99 and win 1), and still do it. The rule never changes.

I would say different times require different minds and require consistent adaptation. In this world, technology is at the forefront of everything and so it is for small businesses. Learning usage and adoption of technology is a must. The older generation probably catches up slower than us, and we are slower than the next generation. It’s also a simple law of life — we get old and we tend to do what we know best. And I say it’s not a bad idea to stick to what you know best 80% of the time, which allows the 20% to change, even when we are old, to adapt.

Who is a business leader (outside of your own business) in Louisville you admire and why?

I don’t have an idol for small business, but I have and idol for life and way we live in life — and that person is my mom.

I have always wished to have David Jones Sr. and now David Jones Jr. to be my mentor so I can learn the magnificent transformation and contributions that they made for the city of Louisville through Humana and other companies.

References

https://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2021/05/18/family-business-awards-di-tran.html

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Louisville Beauty Academy – Part of Di Tran Enterprise LLC – Di Tran CEO – Louisville Business First Award 2021

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Rising Star/Next Gen: Recognizes emerging leaders/next generation leaders who are making an impact in their business and their local community.https://3ed9f78323d699d3489d8e8af4546e46.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

  • Chelsea Ellis, CEO, Jim Reynolds Asphalt Contractor Inc.
  • Terry Hyland, president, Hyland Insurance/AHA Insurance Network
  • Christina Searcy, director of client experience, Mira
  • Di Tran, President/CEO, Di Tran LLC – the Di Tran Enterprise that includes Louisville Beauty Academy LLC, Louisville Institute of Technology, Trans Family Properties LLC and USA, US and Bardstown Road Nails Salons LLCs
  • Lee Weyland, director, Weyland Ventures

References:

https://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2021/03/19/family-business-awards-finalists.html

Press Release: Editor, The Louisville Courier Journal – Louisville Beauty Academy – 03-10-2021

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To:                  Editor, The Louisville Courier Journal

Date:               March 10, 2021

The leaders of Kentucky’s public community colleges raised an important and timely issue (“Will you be ready to go to work…” CJ, 3.8.2021) regarding the resources and support necessary to put Kentuckians back to work as the restrictions from the pandemic abate. The gap between available occupational, technical, and professional career opportunities and the workforce-ready talent to meet them has grown, not shrunk, in the last year. Lifting restrictions and opening in-person enterprises will unleash a tidal wave of pent-up demand that generates economic activity and wealth. The question is, who will benefit from that economic turbo-charge and for how long?

The emphasis on institutional diversity, equity and inclusion appropriately sets expectations that demand much more than status quo. Specifically, the DEI post-pandemic economy should benefit minority and low-income populations, and in a manner that is sustainable and long-term. The post-pandemic workforce and small business community in Louisville must reflect and support economic success and personal achievement by minorities, low-income individuals, immigrants, and those displaced by poor health, military service, and other social circumstances. Principles of diversity and inclusion are paramount.

Include Kentucky-based career colleges in the mix of institutions that are helping individuals re-train, re-skill and re-tool for employment and entrepreneurship post-pandemic. The Louisville Beauty Academy (www.louisvillebeautyacademy.net) and the Louisville Institute of Technology (www.louisvilleit.org) excel at providing on-time, immersive and true work-ready programs that prepare graduates for employment on day one.  Completers at LBA immediately go to work for nail and beauty salons because the training specifically ensures their success in earning Kentucky licensure. Likewise, successful apprentices at LIT can attain the Full-Stack Programmer “I Have Done It” certificate in three months. Employers in financial, healthcare, logistics and manufacturing are eager to put those IT professionals to work immediately, solving enterprise system deficiencies and delivering end-to-end interoperability that includes text-driven end user applications.

LIT and LBA programs are extremely specific to the workforce. They are typically shorter and more intense than programs offered at other institutions because they recognize the importance of timely completion and employment. They are highly hands-on, emphasizing practical real-time instruction. The programs are highly affordable and accessible in-person, on-line or in combination.

Community college leaders acknowledged that job-seekers post-pandemic are “most likely to enroll in a nondegree program or seek skills training.” That phenomenon is driven by the economic and entrepreneurial opportunities right around the corner. LBA and LIT are ideal complements to public post-secondary education. The diversity and inclusion principles apply to the academies’ ownership, staff, and student populations. It should also apply to the institutional diversity that is supported in our community to achieve the DEI economic boom that is so necessary.

Di Tran, CEO – Louisville Beauty Academy/Louisville Institute of Technology

References

Louisville Beauty Academy – Covid19 Precaution – Safety For All

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Safety for our students, staffs and customers are our top priority:
1- Mask for everyone
2- Hand sanitizer for everyone
3- Temperature check for everyone
4- Covid19 Liability Waiver Release Signed by everyone

Louisville Beauty Academy – Organic Aloe Vera Hand Santizer 70% Alcohol
Louisville Beauty Academy – Medical Grade Comfortable Non-Fog Face Sheild
Louisville Beauty Academy – 4 Layer Cloth Comfortable Mask
Louisville Beauty Academy – Non-Contact Temperature Check Gun

Louisville Beauty Academy – Nail Technology Program – ONLY REQUIRE 450 HOURS (Less than 3 month of school)

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State Board of Cosmetology in Kentucky has reduced hour of Nail Technology required hours from 600 to 450 – that is equivalent to less than 3 months of school for full-time student (30-40 hours/week school attendance). This also means that at Louisville Beauty Academy, with our school more than 50% tuition off scholarship. Please check school tuition, fee and scholarship page here. YES, THIS IS AMAZING.

Is there any more reason to delay, or wait to empower your with extra skill, and education to enable you to stable your life? LET’S START TODAY, ENROLL AT OUR SCHOOL AND ALLOW YOURSELF TO BECOME A NAIL TECHNICIAN – one of the fastest growing industry in beauty domain.

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