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Hospitality HR and Executive Search Consulting Services

Cayuga Hospitality Consultants are skilled in hospitality executive search, HR management, employee and labor relations and use their decades of hospitality industry experience to help operators develop strong, mutually beneficial employment relationships with its workforce at all levels of an organization.

Meet Our Hospitality HR, Executive Search & Task Force Consultants

Stewart Kiely

Design/Project Management/Sustainability

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Connor Vanderholm

Total Revenue Management & Task Force

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Stephanie Smith

Digital Marketing, Business Intelligence

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Rick Blackburn

Strategic Commercial Optimization

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Ken Edwards

Receivership, Asset Management, Training

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Janet Eason

Marketing and Branding

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Gordon Carncross

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Frank Schuetzendorf

Food & Beverage Concept Development

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Brian Schoettes

Workforce Management Expert

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Shirley Whelan

F&B Concept Development & Management

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Susan Barry

Commercial Strategy

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Perry Smith

Restaurant & Club Operations, PR, Branding

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James Kuester

Interior and Experience Design

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Greg Riehle

Legal, Risk Management, Arbitration

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Martin Coghlan

Revenue & Distribution Management

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Prakash Khemlani

FF&E Design, Manufacturing, Procurement

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Bill Callnin

Chairman Emeritus

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Thomas Cleary

Insurance & Risk Mgmt for Hospitality

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Gary Isenberg

Hotel Stakeholder Advocacy & Development

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Preston Rideout

Nightclub and Dram Shop Expert

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Jeff Hope

Finance, Operations & Risk Management

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Dr. Chekitan Dev

Hospitality Branding and Marketing

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Donald Hoover

Casino Exec. Acquisition, HR, CBA Expert

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James Miles

Independent Resort Ops & Development

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Walter O'Connell

Hotel Valuation & Cost Segregation

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Simon Turner

Expert Witness, Asset Mgmt, Transactions

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Leah Crump

Luxury Wellness & Spa Consultant

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Rishi Mistry

Technology Solutions

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Katherine Moulton

Mediation and Dispute Resolution

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Zachary Schwartz

Investment, Development, Asset Strategy

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Peter LaFemina

Hospitality Finance and Owner Services

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Rebecca Lombardo

CMO, Marketing, Branding Strategist

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John Berndt

Operations & Asset Management

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Chuck Simikian, SPHR, SHRM-SCP

HR Consultant, Trainer, Interim Director

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Alan Someck

Expert Witness, Foodservice Operations

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Haydn Kramer

Hotel Sales and Global Sales

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Melissa Rosen

F&B Concept/Branding/Revenue Strategies

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Eric Rubino

Acquisitions/Investment/Deal Structuring

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Ted Torres

Development & Construction Management

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Bill Carroll, Ph. D.

Revenue, Pricing, Marketing

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James Samson

Food, Beverage, and Restaurants

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Tom Lambrecht

Debt Restructuring, Loan Packaging

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Alan Orlob

Hotel Security & Threat Mitigation

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Jennifer Dohrmann-Alpert

Market & Financial Feasibility Studies

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Charis Atwood

FF&E Project Planning and Management

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Chuck Kelley

Positioning & Asset Operations

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Don Farrell

Sales, Service & Leadership Training

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Stacy Moore

Foodservice Concepts & Strategies

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Dan Voellm

Asset Management & Valuations

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Sunjoy Sharma

Management, Marketing, Leadership

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Larry Spelts

Hotel Development & Repositioning

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Javier Leon

Engineering, MEP Review, CapEx Planning

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Seth Alexander

F&B Concept, Branding, Analytics

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Joseph Cozza

Catering Sales & Event Operations

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Scott Brown

Audio Visual Services & Infrastructure

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Sean Flakelar

Luxury Boutique Resort & Restaurant Ops.

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Debbie Miller

Digital Marketing and Social Media

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Kevin Doyle

Fraud Investigations & Prevention

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Charles Oswald

Hotel & Asset Mgmt, Hotel Underwriting

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Juliette Gust

Ethics, Compliance, Anti-Fraud

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Jon Peck

Acquisition Advisory & Asset Management

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Peter Van Allen

Non-Rooms and Rooms Pricing Strategies

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Holleigh Alexander-Ramsey

Spa, Wellness, Recreation, & Branding

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Mandy Murry

Independent Hotel Coaching

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Jay Landfair

Asset Management/PIP/Project Management

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Sean Skellie

Hotel Development & Marketing Analysis

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Service Directory:

HR Consulting Services:

Employee Relations

Training

Organizational Development

All focused on delivering a positive work environment and resulting in both operational and financial improvements.

What do these services entail?

Conducting company-wide HR audits
Developing comprehensive company culture strategies
Building HR departments from the ground-up including all policies
Training modules and learning programs
Hiring processes and more

Our experts have comprehensive experience in the field to deliver measurable and sustainable results.

Consultants in the Cayuga Network have:

International experience
Strength of managing multi-cultural teams
Understanding of the challenges that come with diverse talent coming together to deliver the expectations of the owner and operator

Regardless of the size or type of hospitality organization our consultants will accurately assess your needs and provide you with a strategic plan to resolve any HR, employee or labor relations challenges.

Hospitality Executive Search Consulting

Finding just the right executive for the hotels, restaurants, clubs, gaming and related business can be one of the most important decisions an owner or operator will make.

Cayuga’s hospitality executive search specialists have been providing successful placement services for decades. Our consultants have decades of experience in operations and understand first-hand the disruption, cost and challenges of transitions at the executive level.

Clients can be assured of an efficient search for the best candidates. Executive Search Consulting two prominent styles for finding executive talent:

Retained
Contingency

Click here to know the pros and cons of each style.

Hospitality Training and Development

Hotels, Resorts, Clubs, Restaurants, and Foodservice operations are continually required to update policies, procedures, training and compliance.

Paying close attention to the changing needs of your staff, operation, legal obligations and risk management, and especially your guests’ expectations is essential in achieving success.

Ensuring your organizational culture matches your desired guest experience, your team is prepared with all of the tools necessary for optimal performance, and sustainable practices are in place is what Cayuga Consultants are expert in delivering.

If opening a new operation:

The decades of experience Cayuga Hospitality Consultants bring to each unique assignment provides an unmatched bespoke approach to recruitment, performance coaching, and training to bring your vision to reality.

If enhancing an existing operation:

Our passionate and solution-oriented professionals engage in employee assessments, develop performance improvement plans, establish sustainable training modules, and assist in implementing and evaluating results.

HR Task Force

Whether developing a new hotel, restaurant, club or other hospitality business, transitioning branding or ownership, independents or franchised, Cayuga Hospitality Consultants use their global resources to find the leadership each unique property and position requires. From a task force team or individual to manage a temporary solution or assignments for full-time personnel, our talent acquisition experts provide the highest level of confidentiality and discreet customized talent search and acquisitions to meet your hospitality executive search needs.

Hospitality Talent Outsourcing

According to a study produced by Robert Half, 41% of surveyed hiring managers and HR professionals who have all made a bad-hire estimate the costs at thousands of dollars. Knowing that there is a monetary risk involved, your strategy for hiring at the executive level (director and up) should include three important considerations: time, talent, and treasure.

It takes the right talent to hit the right buttons when attempting to recruit busy executives. The important questions to ask yourself here are whether or not your internal interviewers know what questions to ask, and how they ask them in order to zone in on, say, the implications of a family move to a new state or country. So next time you’re thinking of how best to find the right talent for one of your most important positions, think twice about your approach and let one of our consultants help you.