Influential Businesswoman Awards 2024, Acquisition International | 55 Best Wellness Hospitality Visionary 2024 U.S.: Mia A. Mackman s. Mackman continues to be a unique, influential global asset to the wellness hospitality market. Based in Sedona, Arizona, Ms. Mackman is an award-winning wellness-hospitality visionary who has specialized in the foresight and growth of the spa and wellness industry since 2001. Throughout her career, she has predicted some of the foremost changes in the spa and wellness market. She continues to be a cornerstone in unraveling evolving wellness program development alongside defining financial performance models. Known best for her esteemed market and forecast accuracy, multidimensional approach, and broad scope of cross-disciplinary knowledge, she is widely considered a pioneer in the hospitality wellness sector. This is made even more impressive when you consider a crucial fact: hospitality is an incredibly competitive space, defined by a constant need for ‘better.’ It’s a pursuit of service and perfection, with all leaders embracing the mindset to make their indelible mark on the landscape. For Ms. Mackman, the keys to success lie in the authenticity of intention, actions of compassion, and leaning into challenges with innovative and untapped solutions. She has pushed the boundaries throughout her career to make way for important industry progress. Today, Ms. Mackman is the owner and principal of MackmanES Consulting, a comprehensive spa, wellness, and hospitality foresight consultancy. She specializes in delivering complex facility concepts and future-ready strategies and developing robust financial program structures. She also works with capital market and valuation teams to support wellness market CRE underwriting, feasibility reports, and asset repositioning to define and explain the distinct differences related to wellness and sustainable property developments. Ms. Mackman works with global investment firms, owners, hotel and resort companies, mixed-use property developers, and hospitality organizations, supporting the nuances of their projects and planning. Through her services, she mitigates risks and helps clients achieve their leading-edge business goals by being ahead of the curve of the market and providing the foresight for them to prepare and plan with confidence. This supports her broad client base, enhancing their ability to navigate and excel in these global markets. In 2016, Ms. Mackman was invited to partner with HVS, a distinguished global hospitality firm, to create and develop the HVS Spa and Wellness Consulting Division. In this partnership, she served as the division’s Managing Director to spearhead global market support while developing new-to-market spa and wellness hospitality financial models through 2022. During this partnership, Ms. Mackman worked with HVS’ global network of clients, including leading lending institutions, investment groups, and banks, providing them with underwriting support, financial feasibility, and spa and wellness consulting services. Additionally, Ms. Mackman continues to contribute as a renowned industry expert. She is widely published in international business reports and global industry media and is a member of the Summit of Minds. She is the Founder of the Arizona Spa & Wellness Association, which she formed in 2012 to serve as a platform for connectivity, education about wellness modalities, and industry growth. At the time, it was the first association of its kind in the world, created to drive the integration of wellness attributes into traditional spa services. Furthermore, Ms. Mackman is proud to be a global judge for the World Spa & Wellness Awards, a global awards platform based in London. She is also a long-standing Hotel Business Review and Hotel Executive Editorial Board member. Over the last couple of decades, hospitality has solidified its position as an environment open to a women-led approach, with women often enjoying significant leadership positions. Over the course of her hardearned expertise, Ms. Mackman has seen this change happen, with women rising to the top of the industry and, further, acting as drivers for continued change. In her work, Ms. Mackman primarily aims to support a wide range of social wellness and healing ecosystems to improve the quality of community and life. Through this, she strives to advance personal and holistic health while creating new financial and programme models to produce innovative and successful business outcomes. In the future, Ms. Mackman expects to see major market shifts in the U.S. asset repositioning and alternative operation models, especially in real estate and finance. We congratulate her on this tremendous achievement and look forward to seeing what she goes on to accomplish in the years to come. Contact: Mia A. Mackman Company: MackmanES Consulting Web Address: MackmanES.com MackmanES Consulting is an award-winning comprehensive spa-wellness-hospitality foresight consultancy specializing in a range of services that help clients successfully create and improve their wellness and spa businesses. Mia A. Mackman has more than 25 years of industry-specific consulting experience. Here, we take a look at the work she does and her extensive career in the field. M
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