Continuing resources for navigating market conditions.

Defining Hospitality Podcast with Dan Ryan

Go behind the scenes at The Hardy Group with President Brent Hardy, AIA, ISHC.

Listen as Dan Ryan shares the mic with Brent to learn how the company has grown, strategies for balancing vision and budget, highlighting the importance of effective communication, and looks towards the future of the hospitality industry.

Thank you to Dan Ryan and the entire Defining Hospitality team for providing the platform to showcase our strengths, passions, and experience!

Radical Hospitality Ideas – From Passion to Reality

MODERATOR
John Hardy, Founder, Radical Innovation and
Founder & Chairman, The Hardy Group

PANELISTS
Grant Romundt, CEO, Ocean Builders
Contact info@oceanbuilders.com, follow updates Ocean Builders

Caspar Schols, Designer bij ANNA, Cabin-anna.com
Contact info@cabin-anna.com, follow updates Cabin ANNA

Hans Meyer, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Zoku
Contact helloamsterdam@livezoku.com, follow updates ZOKU

How the Pandemic has Transformed Hotel Development and Design Decisions Today

Moderator and panelists share how they are adapting to satisfy current lifestyles, consumer trends, real estate laws, supply chain challenges and more. Insights from four different perspectives – Developer, Lawyer, General Contractor and Designer.

MODERATOR
Mary Beth Cutshall, Founder & Managing Partner, Amara Capital

PANELISTS
Jena Thornton, Managing Director, Magnetic ERV
Renee Bagshaw, Chief Operating Officer, Continental Contractors
Jodi Stein, Partner, Sheppard Mullin
Nina Grondin, Partner & Co-Founder, Curioso

Capitalize on Opportunities

Where is the “overall market” headed and when will it get there? Some leisure markets are very strong while some urban markets lag significantly behind. Valuations for leisure properties in some cases exceed 2019 valuations while other properties face foreclosure. On the operating side leisure properties experience record profits while operating with major labor shortages. Others just the opposite. With the Delta variant spreading how and when does business and group travel return? Will business travel be changed forever? We have never experienced a “recovery” like this in our history.

Join us while Mark Woodworth, Principal of R.M. Woodworth & Associates, and Ben Brunt, Principal & Chief Investment Officer at Noble Investment, discuss their different perspectives on these hot topics.

Hotel Design After COVID, the Brand’s Perspective

As hotel brands update or revise brand standards what changes will be permanent, what changes will be temporary, and what new revisions may still be on the horizon? Join us while Aliya Khan, Vice President Global Design Strategies at Marriott International, Vito F. Lotta, Vice President of Architecture & Design for Hilton Worldwide, and James Millar, Senior Director of Choice Hotel’s Upscale Design & Construction Department chat and discuss what the future may look like from the Brand’s perspective.

Building Your Team for the Post Pandemic Future

There is a rare opportunity now and going forward to strengthen your leadership and organization’s team and to more closely align it with your market, workforce, and talent pipeline. Anjali Agarwal, Chief Operating Officer at AutoCamp, Tyronne Stoudemire, Global VP of Diversity Equity and Inclusion at Hyatt Hotels, and Peggy Berg, Chair of The Castell Project will share their thoughts about identifying and attracting the right people to optimize your company’s future.

Creative Visionaries From Radical Innovation Share Their Vision for the Future

A special edition of our Continuing Resources series as we approach our 14th annual Radical Innovation Awards Ceremony. We will take a moment to reconnect with past contestants to learn more about their vision for the future of hospitality. We are fortunate to welcome back Carley Cannell (2007, 2010), Raphael Delstanche (2011), Gianluca Santosuosso (2012), Yasmin Solemin (2015), and Caspar Schols (2017).

The Atlanta Federal Reserve – Miami Branch, PwC and Kalibri share their perspectives on the State of the Global Economy, the US Economy and the US Leisure & Travel Industry.

Karen Gilmore, Vice President and Regional Executive of Miami Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Cindy Estis Green, Founder of Kalibri Labs and Warren Marr, Managing Director of PwC discuss their views and perspectives on the current state of the Global and US economy and how they relate to the US Leisure and Travel Industry. Our industry is the most distressed segment of the US economy and we are now facing a second wave of the Covid 19 virus going into the fall and winter into 2021. The concerns for the economy and our industry will be identified and the bright spots will be highlighted. Join us for these major experts to illustrate how they analyze current market conditions and predict future outcomes while their basic metrics are changing every day.

Creative Adaptation to the New Normal in the Global Travel Market

We are very fortunate to have three highly creative industry leaders representing some of the top hotel companies globally share their experiences dealing with The Covid 19 Pandemic. Prem Devadas, President of Salamander Hotels and Resorts, Andrew Miele, Head of Development, Americas for Six Senses Resorts and Christian Glauser Benz, Vice President of Development and Acquisitions for the Dream Hotel Group will discuss how they have contended with the market challenges in 2020 and how they have creatively adapted their business model to the evolving operating climate of the Pandemic going forward into 2021 and beyond.

COVID-19 and the Challenges of Developing and Opening a New Hotel – TownePlace Suites Nashville Downtown

The Upscale TownePlace Suites in Downtown Nashville’s development team will share their experiences during the Covid 19 crisis. The unique perspectives of the Owners, Project Managers, Design Consultants, and the General Contractor team will describe how they successfully delivered an outstanding hotel despite the challenges of the Covid 19 crisis.