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If you're a spa director or hospitality leader wondering why your team's recommendation rates and revenues have plateaued, you're not alone. Let's talk. The answer isn't changing job descriptions to recommend or higher incentives. It's supporting your team to hyper-individualize service, engaging deeper with guests and clients to grow perceived value in light of the cautious consumer sentiment and psychology that's happening right now.

Across my client base, leaders are navigating the pressure to lead meaningful transformation in response to today’s shifting economic and political landscape. I partner with them to cultivate the emotional intelligence, strategic clarity, and resilience needed to guide their organizations through change with confidence and integrity. If you're facing similar challenges, I'm here to help.

Are your team able to connect the dots between need and solution for their guest/client? Are they able to recommend using their best advice to build value with intelligent, individualized solutions that contribute to the fabulousness of their client experience?

Pears for pears - we are uniquely and wonderfully different. Aside building executive and organizational value, most of my work this month has been tackling interpersonal conflict at work. Not as exhausting as it sounds but actually an easy opportunity when self awareness drives a deeper understanding of our humanness and perspective kicks in to reframe the situation and activate leadership growth. Inspired by this novel symptom , I gathered a bit more data and found a sur

I have one of the best jobs I know. I quietly support teams and leaders working in hospitality and service to use more of their strengths and skills to continue to be brilliant engaging with their guests. I really don't think that I give anyone actual permission to be brilliant or inherently teach them anything that they don't already know- But what I do do is develop, celebrate and refocus each service provider, server, front desk agent, leader, retail store assistant to

Another month of record on the job quitting and job openings at sky high levels, irregardless of whether we compare it to before, the middle or after the pandemic. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, their departures have left a huge hole in the labor market. The number of current job openings (10.9 million) exceeds the number of new hires (6.3 million). The situation is very real and very felt by many of our operational heroes, leaders, managers and team who ma

New year, new leaf! The beginning of 2022 was sumptuously marked with the recording of Bryan Buesking's STL Leaders Podcast. It was the first podcast interview since the publication of Ready for Anything: The Making of a Change Leader in late 2021. It was a true honor to speak on a topic that keeps circling round, since the pandemic and the challenging operating climate we haven't had the liberty of getting accustomed to - How to lead in turbulent times.

This week in dedication to mental health awareness, I spoke about the challenging and contradictory nature of resilience. It's important. From recent observations and client conversations I am boldly deducting that our commonly held understanding of resilience is actually preventing the creation of our own natural resilience in uncertain times. This blog shares my findings and looks at how we can reframe our experiences to not just survive but thrive . The Issue is Thi

Introduction In this second edition of Ready for Anything , our intention is to challenge and provoke both professionals and students to think differently about their experience as change leaders. We want to call into question their cherished assumptions about people and change and suggest new opportunities for making change. Since 2016, when the first edition was written, the role of change agent has become more complex. We reflect these changes both in our essays and in our

I am about to make my annual pilgrimage across the pond, leaving the good ol' US of A for a few months to find, truly long lost friends and family, I haven't seen since the onset of the pandemic. Being British and Italian and married to a German, we are spread around the globe. Great pre-pandemic, not been so great the past 15 mont

This article takes a deeper dive into connecting with customers. Historically, customer relationship management (CRM) was used to increase the profitability of businesses through the active management of long-term customer relationships.

I had COVID and I am ALL about the mask. Apart from having travelled through an airport in March, which I felt increased my risk of exposure- I had no idea I had it. I am so lucky and grateful as all I had was a sore throat for a few hours. No fever or fatigue. Nada.

Maximizing revenue per client visit has become paramount for many reasons! How can your teams’ true purpose be balanced with their earnings?

COVID will continue to have a huge impact on how we interact with our clients. Use the DISC behavioral profiles to rebuild trust and caring.

I HAVE SPENT MY CAREER HELPING TEAMS become personally accountable for their psychology when recommending products, homecare or add-ons to c