Jennifer Oppel, MCS, CFMG

Jennifer Oppel is a career groomer, former salon owner, and founder of Growing Groomers, a structured training program built to help grooming businesses train bathers, groomers, and apprentices with more consistency and accountability.
With 35 years in the grooming industry and 25 years as a salon owner, Jennifer understands the daily pressure salon owners carry the full schedules, staffing challenges, training struggles, client expectations, and the responsibility that doesn’t end when the last dog goes home.
She is also the sponsor of Missouri’s first state-registered pet grooming apprenticeship, bringing a more formal training pathway to an industry that has often relied on informal, in-salon learning.
Through her work, Jennifer helps salon owners turn experience into structure, so training becomes clearer, standards become easier to communicate, and employees have a better path to grow while making better use of the time, energy, and money owners are already investing in their teams.
Her approach is practical, direct, and grounded in the real world of grooming salons. She speaks both groomer and business helping owners look at what’s actually happening behind the scenes and build systems that support the people, the pets, and the business.