Ep 17: How Isan Elba is Reshaping The Beauty Indsutry: Turning PR Gifting Into Community Impact

from The Beauty Sessions · host Sophie Blowfield

Isan Elba is building something radically different in beauty. As founder of Beauty Access and Beauty Forward, she's created a scalable, tech-enabled system that turns the industry's excess of beauty PR packages into dignity for underserved communities. In this conversation, Isan shares how receiving 1-3 PR packages daily led her to build custom inventory technology, redistribute over 3,000 products to women in need and partner with major brands like MAC, Giorgio Armani Beauty, and Tarte Cosmetics to do so. From recently speaking at Harvard Business School to challenging beauty's most entrenched gifting practices, this is the unfiltered story of building purpose-driven impact and using AI and tech for good.I hope you enjoy!Follow The Beauty Sessions on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow Sophie Blowfield on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow Isan Elba on⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow Beauty Access on Instagram

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