The Modern Grooming Professional™

A New Standard for Today’s Grooming Industry.

The MGP™ was built for today’s grooming environment, where behavior, skin and coat health, safety, and daily handling matter just as much as the haircut.
This path is for anyone in a salon or pet-care setting:
bathers, groomers, managers, owners, assistants, daycare and kennel teams.
This is the modern professional standard the grooming industry has never defined, until now.
The essential knowledge every pet care provider should have, no matter how many years they’ve been in the field. 
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The MGP™ trains pet-care professionals in the skills that prevent injuries, protect animals, and raise the standards inside every salon.
A modern certification built for the way we work today and where the industry is going tomorrow.
MGP Certification Pathway

Behavior & Humane Handling

Learn how to read pets early, respond safely, and make the right call in real grooming situations.
This track focuses on humane handling, stress awareness, and everyday decisions that keep pets and teams safe.

You’ll Learn:
✔ How to spot early stress and behavior signals
✔ When to continue, adjust, or stop a groom
✔ Safe, humane handling used in real salons
✔ How behavior affects safety and workflow

Skin & Coat Care Essentials

Learn how to assess skin and coat health before grooming.
This track focuses on observation, product choices, and knowing when to proceed or refer, helping protect pets and improve grooming outcomes.

It also includes a creative grooming module that demonstrates how knowledge of the skin and coat supports safe, responsible creative work.

You’ll Learn:                                                     ✔ Skin & coat assessment
✔ When to groom vs. refer
✔ Product selection & dilution
✔ Creative grooming considerations
✔ Salon-ready decision-making

Salon Safety & Professional Best Practices

The training every salon needs and most teams never receive.
This track focuses on daily systems that maintain salons as safe, efficient, and professional, regardless of team size, and helps every role in the salon work together with clarity and consistency.

You’ll Learn:
✔ Safety protocols and hazard awareness
✔ Professional communication 
✔ Efficient workflows 
✔ Consistent team standards

MGP Journey Map
Inside the MGP™ Certification

Behavior • Skin & Coat • Salon Safety
Self-paced • Practical • Team-ready

Traditional grooming certifications were created for a very different time in the industry.
They often focus on travel, testing, and breed patterns, not the daily skills salon teams need today.
They weren’t designed to support ongoing education, team alignment, or full salon growth.
The MGP was created to fill those gaps, giving today’s pet-care teams the structure, skills, and support their work actually requires.

• Workplace Safety • Science • Behavior •

The MGP Certification HOT & NEW

The MGP Certification

For $99.00
IAPEG Membership Requirement

An active IAPEG Professional or Climbing Tier membership ($80) is needed to activate your MGP™ certification.

If you’re not a member yet, we’ll send you a simple $80 invoice after checkout.

Your CEUs are included with your membership.
This purchase is non-refundable.

Just Want the Training? That’s Completely Fine.

Certification is not required to take part in the MGP™ Tracks.
You’re welcome to join the training without activating the credential.

Affordable • Scalable • Attainable 

Each MGP™ Track is an 8-module, 20+hours of rich, real-world content designed for salon users to use right away.
💬 Real Training & Practical Testing
Short, focused videos and simple knowledge checks built around what everyone in the salon needs to know for everyday salon work.
🧰 Checklists, Quick-Guides & Salon Tools
Skills you can put to work the same day, designed for everyday grooming, handling, and client realities.
👥 Professional Community & Ongoing Education
Access to continued education through IAPEG and The Scholar Lounge, all tailored to what modern salons face day to day.
♾️ Lifetime Access
Take the time you need. You can progress through each Track at your own pace and return to the training whenever you need a refresher.
Training that no other certification gives you.
Be the standard.
Be the stand-out.
Be the professional who makes clients,  and others ask:  “What is their secret?”
The Modern Grooming Professional™  was created by three leaders in grooming education, each bringing a different pillar of modern training.
Together, they built a program rooted in behavior, safety, skin and coat health, and salon safety practice.
Their shared mission is simple:  practical, accessible education that lifts up the professional and protects the pet.

The MGP™ gives you the knowledge, tools, and support the industry has been missing, so you can grow with skills that make your work easier, safer, and more effective every day.