Raul Leal is a seasoned professional in the boutique hospitality industry who understands and embodies the boutique lifestyle to a T.  Forward thinking and self driven, Raul is an influential executive with a successful track record of creating powerful brands that infuse character, sophistication and excitement in every element from unique design to lively operations.  With robust entrepreneurial tactics under his belt, he is highly proficient in nurturing deep relationships, going above and beyond customer, employee and investor expectations and transforming innovative ideas from a vision into reality.   

What You Will Hear:

• How Raul built his career in the hospitality community
• Ethos, the mission statement, the concept of the SH Hotels collection
• Holistic well being and wellness in hospitality 
• Where boutique hotels originated
• What is hospitality?
• Mentors and Raul’s passion for people
• Investing in experiences and the ROI
• Teams and tips on leadership
• Current hospitality culture in Miami
• What is a boutique hotel?

Quotes:

“The brand ethos is do all the good that you can.”

“There's real lifestyle hotels, and then there's pretenders.”

“The best hoteliers are the ones that create their own dinner parties and they enjoy entertaining people.”

“The most important thing today is for organizations to have a purpose and leaders to be purposeful.”

Mentioned:

SH Hotels

W Lexington NY

Delano Miami

Sponsored by Solonis

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