Lisa Hennessy

Modern travelers aren’t booking these properties to relax in the conventional sense. They’re booking them to sleep better, recover from burnout, extend their healthspan, and reconnect with something that feels grounded and real.

Curation is everything. It’s deciding what deserves your attention.

There’s actually a fifth one. It’s called umami. It’s the flavor that lingers. The one chefs chase because it stays with you after everything else fades.

A few years ago, cultural strategist Emily Segal borrowed that idea for her “Umami Theory of Value,” describing a certain kind of savory cultural work — the kind that feels familiar and surprising... See more

Restaurants, at their best, extend past signaling. Interiors, lighting, acoustics, service choreography, experiential design, and culinary arts combine into a dense, multi-disciplinary encounter that aims to nourish. With its slower pace and insistence on craft, hospitality becomes a mechanism for embodied worldbuilding in a landscape built to... See more

I want to tell you I think about these words from Pema Chödrön often: “It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we... See more

They’re extroverted. Brands with vision-driven cultures don’t huddle in the shadows to keep their secrets. They talk to everyone: competitors, peers, the press, elected officials, customers, everyone.

The alternative is “culture-based visioning.” That’s what we preach to our clients. Instead of trying to reshape your organization to compete in an unimaginable future, reshape your organization’s culture to counter the disruptive forces at work with some disruptive mojo of your own. Instead of aspiring to build the latest gadget, open new offices... See more

“Instead of trying to reshape your organization to compete in an unimaginable future, reshape your organization’s culture to counter the disruptive forces at work.”

Sunny Bonnell, Co-Founder & CEO, Motto®

while the scope, relevance, and audacity of a leader’s vision are critical to its success, something else matters even more: What that vision is applied to.

It’s Not About Where You’ll Be in Five Years