The Travel Leader

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The Travel Leader Podcast, released every two weeks, is dedicated to interviewing leaders in hospitality and tourism. Listeners will be able connect with their every day experiences, both successes and failures, and understand the leadership competencies that are shaping the future of our industry.

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Tenacious Betterment with Emily Penfold Dailey

Emily is a 15-yearveteran of the hospitality industry with extensive experience in operations and marketing with particular skill in branding, marketing, and communications. She has worked with major brands and independent hotels. Much of her focus has been on full-service, lifestyle properties. In the boutique and lifestyle space, Emily has developed branding, written service training programs, and launched marketing programs. She has helped to successfully brand, open, and ramp more than a doz...

May 30, 2023•50 min

Leadership Lessons with Rachel Vandenberg

Welcome to the travel leader podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Vandenberg. On our show, I interview and connect with leaders in our industry, what has shaped them, successes, failures, and everything in between. On today's show, I'm celebrating our first 10 episodes and reflecting on the leadership lessons from our first interviews. Before we start, I want to let you know about the travel leader community. Every month, I'll be gathering a group of travel leaders to continue the conversation about l...

May 17, 2023•15 min

Intentional Compassion with Sheree O'Reilly

Sheree is an accomplished and well-respected business owner who has devoted her entire career to hospitality and food management. She received a degree in Business from Merrimack College and her Culinary Arts degree from Newbury College. Sheree worked for the Marriott Corporation from 1978 to 1998, ultimately serving as Vice President of Quality Control in their New York headquarters. In 1981, she became the first woman to serve as a General Manager of a Marriott property worldwide. Sheree repre...

May 02, 2023•35 min

Encouraging Presence with Dylan Beaumont

Dylan Beaumont has been a 23 year tenured worker in Hospitality. He has worked in the midscale, select service and luxury hotel tiers in California and Oregon. He prides himself in being a dedicated manager, and giving his best to better his employer and his colleagues. He is currently the General Manager of Fairfield by Marriott Eugene. Dylan enjoys his roles as an advocate for Hospitality and mentor to developing workers. He was designated a Top 50 Social Media Influencer in Hospitality for 20...

Apr 17, 2023•50 min

Persistent Caring with Dr. Bryan Williams

Dr. Bryan K. Williams is a keynote speaker, consultant, and author, who is a noted authority on service excellence and leadership effectiveness. His passion is to serve others so they may better serve the world. Over the past several years, Bryan has provided training and consulting expertise to hundreds of organizations in over 20 industries ranging from Healthcare to Luxury Hotels. His work with clients has taken him throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Mex...

Apr 05, 2023•52 min

Heart-Centered Mentorship with Elaine Macy

For 15 years, up until 2019, Elaine was Executive VP of Preferred Hotels and Resorts. She built the sales team in 5 years from $32 million to $100 million in group sales. She worked in development and hotel retention as well as major events. During her time at Preferred she managed the events team and the sales team. In 2020 Elaine and Penny Wing joined forces and opened Reiimagine to provide sales support services to independent luxury boutique hotels, and utilize Penny's exclusive “Brojure” pr...

Mar 21, 2023•46 min

Scaling Purpose with Elle Rustique

Elle Rustique is the founder of Tip Brightly, a cashless tipping platform. Learn more about Elle at https://www.linkedin.com/in/erustique/ and her company https://tipbrightly.com/. The Travel Leader Podcast is brought to you by The Travel Leader, a travel content, leadership and coaching initiative for leaders in hospitality, travel and tourism. Learn more at www.thetravelleadercoach.com. Follow The Travel Leader at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-travel-leader and our host and founder Rach...

Mar 06, 2023•49 min

Creating Connection with Michael Maxwell

Michael Maxwell joined Blue Orbit as a Partner in 2014 and has worked with Ray Camillo on various projects and in other businesses since 1994. Michael has over 36 years of hospitality operations and senior management level experience at some of America’s most celebrated and successful restaurant companies. Michael graduated from Southern Polytechnic State University in 1981 with a degree in Industrial Engineering. His passion for restaurants flourished while working with Peasant Restaurants wher...

Feb 20, 2023•44 min

Embracing Service with Evan Kaplan

Evan is an award-winning Hospitality Headhunter with Gecko Hospitality and specializes in full-service, permanent placement recruiting for hotels, resorts, private clubs, event management companies, and private estates in the New England, New York, and New Jersey Metro markets. Evan’s award-winning Northeast Recruiting Team creates a strategic partnership with clients and a personalized relationship with candidates throughout the search process; resulting in the “right” fit for both parties. We ...

Feb 06, 2023•45 min

Adversity Fuels Leadership with Ana Connolly

Ana Connolly is a Senior Director of Revenue and Costing for Vantage Deluxe World Travel. She has over 18 years of hospitality experience, including Panama and multiple U.S. markets. Obtaining her B.A. in Tourism from Universidad de Panama, and a Master’s of Science in Management from Emmanuel College. Currently obtaining a certificate on Google Data Analytics. She started her career at Gamboa Rainforest Resort in Panama City as a tour guide and hospitality desk attendant for U.S. incentive grou...

Jan 22, 2023•49 min

Creating Impact with Leah Murphy

Leah recently founded the Jane Hotel Group, a dedicated hospitality investment company based out of the Midwest focusing on limited-service and extended-stay hotel acquisitions. Prior to forming Jane Hotel Group, Leah held executive and senior leadership roles with Cushman & Wakefield's Hospitality and Gaming Valuation and Advisory Group and HVS. Over a 14-year consulting career she valued various hospitality assets and land in excess of $12 billion. In addition to her valuation and advisory...

Jan 09, 2023•44 min

Meet our Host with Debby Jewesson

In this first full length episode of the Travel Leader Podcast, I asked fellow coach and consultant Debby Jewesson to interview me to introduce the podcast and talk about why I started it. Debby was the perfect choice as she has a history in the hospitality space as the founder of Branching Out Events a floral design and event production company. Today, Debby is a Personal Coach & Business Consultant who specializes in working with ambitious female entrepreneurs. She helps them slow down, st...

Jan 08, 2023•41 min

Introducing the Travel Leader Podcast

In this short trailer episode we introduce the Travel Leader Podcast. I’ve caught the podcast bug! After being a guest on several wonderful travel industry podcasts, I’m starting my own podcast dedicated to leadership in the travel industry. Starting this podcast comes from a genuine place of building relationships and learning from the industry’s top leaders while also providing space for these leaders to reflect on their leadership and connect with our listeners and other guests. The Travel L...

Dec 16, 2022•1 min

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