Leadership and Executive Lessons
Leadership Lessons Shaping the Future of Business
Where Experience Becomes Strategy
A collection of executive insights spanning leadership, culture, hospitality, and industry trends. The series explores how organizations and leaders navigate change, elevate performance, and shape the future of work, experience, and customer expectations.
Featured Speakers in Leadership and Executive Lessons
Michael Conte
Manager, Learning & Development, Forbes Travel Guide
As a spa specialist with a strategic focus on business performance, Michael brings a deep understanding of today’s wellness landscape—its guest expectations, market pressures, and operational realities.
Meghan French Dunbar
Best-Selling Author & Workplace Strategist
A workplace strategist and “business anthropologist” who uncovers practical, human-centered ways to make work better.
Romain Taverne
Hospitality Operations, Development & Strategy
Romain Taverne is an international hospitality leader with decades of experience across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States.
Vivek Venugopal
Evangelist / Speaker Coach / Facilitator
Vivek Venugopal is a facilitator, speaker, and trainer specializing in public speaking and communication skills.
Sarah Aviram
Best-Selling Author, TEDx Speaker & Leadership Coach
Through travel stories, Sarah helps leaders and teams build resilience by activating the personal agency they need to navigate change and drive high performance
Hervé Houdré
Founder at H2 Sustainability Consulting
Hervé Houdré is one of the most respected hoteliers in Europe and North America, having led iconic properties including Hôtel Plaza Athénée New York and Hôtel de Crillon. A pioneering champion of sustainability since 2004 who coined the term "Sustainable Hospitality," he now leads H2 Sustainability Consulting, helping organizations build purpose driven strategy.
Alexandra Pelka
CEO of AP Projects
Alexandra Pelka is an international expert in complex supply chain management, ESG reporting, SDG compliance, and organizational change management.
Jason Gelineau
C-Suite Level Leader in Luxury Cruise Hospitality
With more than 30 years of leadership across luxury cruising, hospitality, wellness, and guest experience, Jason Gelineau is internationally recognized for elevating service culture and inspiring high-performing teams.
Marc Stierand, Ph.D.
Business Creativity & Aesthetic Leadership Coach
A globally recognized scholar whose work in culinary and business creativity, aesthetics, and innovation has shaped how leaders think about experience and differentiation.
Sara Schulting Kranz
Change & Resilience Expert, Consultant on 5 Stages of Change, Leadership Retreat Guide
A leading expert in resilience, leadership, and transformational change, known for guiding executives and teams through powerful, nature-based leadership experiences.
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