Helping Travel Feel Human Again
My Work
Through the TTC Experience Impact System, Strategic Advisory, and Speaking, I help hospitality, tourism, conservation, and wellness organizations evolve beyond transactional experiences toward more transformative, emotionally resonant, and regenerative models of travel and hospitality.
My work combines transformative experience design, systems thinking, stewardship, and future-focused strategy to help leaders strengthen differentiation, emotional loyalty, community impact, and long-term value creation. I’m especially drawn to working with nature-based, wild, and remote experiences where travel can deepen human connection to nature, foster stewardship, and create meaningful benefit for both people and place within the emerging Transformation Economy.
Current Professional Roles
CoFounder & CEO of The Transformational Travel Council
Chairperson of the Board of The Transformational Travel Institute
CoFounder & Strategic Advisor of Explorer X, a proud member of Traveller Made
Founder & Advisor of EverGreen Escapes (Exit in 2018)
CoFounder ROAM Beyond Eco Camps & Advisor for Beyond Retreats
Advisor for The Adventure Hub Collection of Active Travel Brands, including Sacred Rides, San Juan Kayak Expeditions, and Portland Cycle Company
Member of International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC)
“The future belongs to those who help people reconnect with themselves, with each other, with nature, and with purpose.”
- Jake Haupert
“The most important thing we can do is to reconnect people to the living world.”
Offerings
As a Founder of the Transformational Travel Council, I am proud of the reputation I’ve earned as an next-gen experience strategist, designer, sustainable tourism expert, and regenerative consultant and facilitator.
Why? Because experiences are sacred, they make us feel alive, whole, and ready to travel, live, be different, and be our true selves. They shake and stir us into expanded awareness of our interconnection, loving, and caring for others and nature.
There’s virtue and value in that; tourism leaders, hospitality, and destinations that ‘get this’ have a bright future ready to step into transformative hospitality, experience design, guiding, and place-making, inspire others, and never look back.
TEACHER | CONSULTANT | STRATEGIC ADVISORY | SPEAKER
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Through strategic advisory partnerships, I help hospitality, tourism, wellness, and conservation leaders navigate the Transformation Economy by designing transformative experiences, building regenerative strategies, fostering emotional loyalty, promoting stewardship, applying systems thinking, and creating long-term value rooted in deeper human connection, meaningful differentiation, and future-focused hospitality and destination development.
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Consulting on transformative experience strategy, design, sustainable tourism, and regenerative community development. I empower organizations to create purpose-driven, high-impact offerings that differentiate their brand, drive long-term value, and foster stakeholder engagement. This approach aligns business goals with social, cultural, and ecological outcomes, creating resilient models for conscious growth, innovation, and meaningful market relevance.
Contact me for Strategic Planning, Consulting, and Advisory Services
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I speak internationally on the Transformation Economy, regenerative tourism, meaningful hospitality, and transformative experience design, helping destinations, hospitality brands, and tourism leaders create deeper differentiation, emotional loyalty, stewardship, and long-term value through more intentional and human-centered approaches to travel and guest experience.
Plenary | Keynote | Emcee | Moderator | Panel | Workshop Facilitation
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Through the TTC, our Signature Experience Development Program, and the University of South Carolina certification program, I teach transformative experience design, regenerative tourism, stewardship, and human-centered hospitality. Our global alumni network includes more than 400 leaders and professionals across the tourism, hospitality, wellness, conservation, and destination development sectors.
Join me for my next Signature Program Design Program, Certification with The University of South Carolina, or let’s chat about private training and consulting.
Limited Partnerships, Deep Impact
Experience & Approach
With more than two decades shaping the global transformative travel movement, I bring an entrepreneurial, systems-oriented, and highly personalized approach rooted in transformative experience design, regenerative tourism, sustainability, stewardship, and the emerging Transformation Economy. As a multi-time founder, strategic advisor, and field builder, I work closely with visionary leaders across hospitality, tourism, wellness, and conservation seeking to create more meaningful, emotionally resonant, commercially differentiated, and future-ready models of travel, destination development, and human experience.
I’m an Oregon-boy, advisor, and field builder with a deep belief in travel’s potential to create stronger businesses, healthier communities, deeper human connection, and a more regenerative relationship with the natural world.
I’m especially energized by working with visionary leaders and teams creating nature-based hospitality and transformative experiences in beautiful, wild, and remote places where travel can foster deeper connection, stewardship, wellbeing, and long-term regenerative value for people, communities, and the natural world.
The Camino de Santiago, 2023
Current Projects
I love what I do and feel grateful every day for the work—and the people—I get to journey with. But to keep that fire burning, I need to step away sometimes—to recharge at home, in nature, with friends, family, and the open road.
I dive deep with my clients, which means I’m selective about how many projects I take on. It’s not just about quantity—it’s about impact.
Right now, I’m fully engaged with some exciting projects... but I do have space for one or two more. Are you ready to take that next step?
To offer insight into my work, a few of my current projects are below …
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Designing ecosomatic experience strategies and migratory eco-camps that awaken the body’s deep connection to nature—capturing the wild’s perfect moments and inspiring nature lovers to become dedicated conservationists through immersive, transformative encounters.
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I’m immersed in a long-term journey of experience development that flows in harmony with regenerative community growth—co-creating vibrant conditions where every form of life flourishes, weaving purpose and passion with the heartbeat of the community and its dedicated stewards.
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Launching a Certified Transformative Tourism Program
Academic credibility meets applied practice. Three self-paced programs with the University of South Carolina build the frameworks, regenerative thinking, and market positioning that equip you to lead in the transformation economy.
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Most experience designers spend their energy on what happens in the field. This program is about how to design experiences worth returning to, again and again, because they were built to move people.
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.”
— Nikola Tesla
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