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Hospitality Daily PodcastSt Giles Hotel Group's "Hotels with Heart": Housing & Healing through Hospitality - Abigail TanIn this episode, Abigail Tan, CEO of St Giles Hotel Group, joins our correspondent and hertelier founder Emily Goldfisher to share the story behind Hotels with Heart, a program using hospitality to provide housing, training, and new opportunities for people experiencing homelessness. Started during the pandemic, the initiative has grown into a full-fledged Hospitality Academy that equips participants with skills, confidence, and pathways to employment. Abigail’s vision shows how hotels can go beyond business to become platforms for community and compassion.Also see:Offering Hope Through Hospitality: How We Worked with St. Giles Hotels to Cr...
2025-10-2814 min
Hospitality Daily PodcastSt Giles Hotel Group CEO Abigail Tan on Leading Through Culture and CourageIn this episode, St Giles Hotel Group CEO Abigail Tan shares how her approach to leadership has evolved from self-discovery to creating a culture people can feel. Speaking with our career correspondent and hertelier founder Emily Goldfisher, Abigail reflects on the values that guide her decisions, the lessons she’s learned as both a CEO and mother, and why authentic leadership and organizational behavior matter more than ever in hospitality.She discusses how she’s built a loyal team—many with decades of tenure—by leading with empathy, clarity, and purpose, and how redefining risk as “adventure learning”...
2025-10-2713 min
Hospitality Mavericks Podcast Show#300 Greg Früchtenicht COO at Saira Hospitality - Transforming Lives Through HospitalityIn this episode, the guest is Greg from Saira Hospitality, an organization dedicated to transforming the hospitality industry by helping local communities find meaningful employment. Greg discusses the origins of Saira Hospitality, which was founded by Harsha L'Acqua with a revolutionary idea to hire local talent for luxury resorts, avoiding the conventional practice of flying in staff or poaching from nearby operators. The conversation delves into Saira Hospitality's pop-up hospitality school model that partners with hotels to train local community members, focusing on life skills and operational training. Greg shares his journey of joining the organization and his role...
2025-06-0554 min
Hospitality Daily PodcastTurning Rejections into Referrals: Solving Hospitality's Talent Crisis - Greg Früchtenicht, Saira HospitalityIn this episode, Greg Früchtenicht, Chief Operating Officer at Saira Hospitality, shares how his team is transforming the hospitality hiring process by turning rejections into referrals through Saira Connect, a new initiative designed to help hotels find hidden talent while supporting candidates in their career journeys.Listeners Will Learn:The key challenges hospitality recruiters face with one-click job portals and overwhelming volumes of applications.How rejection emails can be transformed into referral opportunities to match candidates with better-suited roles.Insights into the Saira Connect model, which combines human-centered screening and workshops to prepare candidates for h...
2024-11-2926 min
HospitableMaking an Impact with Greg Früchtenicht from Saira HospitalityWe sit down with Greg Früchtenicht, Chief Operating Officer at Saira Hospitality, to explore how technology and human connection can work hand-in-hand to create meaningful change in the hospitality industry. Saira Hospitality, a pioneering nonprofit, builds pop-up hospitality schools worldwide to train and empower local communities, equipping individuals from underserved areas with the skills to thrive in luxury hospitality environments.Greg shares his journey with Saira and dives into the organization's mission to uplift local talent, reducing reliance on overseas hires and fostering a stronger sense of community impact. We discuss how automation and technology help a...
2024-11-1438 min
Hospitality Daily PodcastHow to Evaluate Culture (And The Big Problem with Automation) - Greg Früchtenicht, Saira HospitalityGreg Früchtenicht is the Chief Operating Officer at Saira Hospitality, and in this episode, he shares what he's learned about evaluating culture in hospitality organizations - and the big problem automation poses in the hiring process. A few more resources: If you're new to Hospitality Daily, start here. You can send me a message here with questions, comments, or guest suggestions If you want to get my summary and actionable insights from each episode delivered to your inbox each day, subscribe here for free. Follow Hospitality Daily and join the conversation on YouTube, LinkedIn, and I...
2024-05-2714 min
Hospitality Daily PodcastOffering Hope Through Hospitality: How We Worked with St. Giles Hotels to Create Opportunities for our Community - Greg Früchtenicht, Saira HospitalityGreg Früchtenicht is the Chief Operating Officer at Saira Hospitality, and in this episode, he shares the origin and implementation of a transformative program with St. Giles Hotels in London that not only provides shelter to people experiencing homelessness but also empowers them with crucial hospitality career skills that create opportunities for them.You may also enjoy: From Mother Teresa to Creating Opportunities Through Hospitality - Harsha L'Acqua, Saira HospitalityTransforming Hospitality Education to Break Down Barriers and Create Opportunities - Harsha L'Acqua, Saira HospitalityWorking With The LeBron James Family Foundation and Saira Hospitality to Empower Co...
2024-05-0315 min
Hospitality Meets... with Phil StreetHospitality Meets Greg Früchtenicht - The Hospitality Education FacilitatorThis week’s episode is brought to you in partnership with Zero Procure who are here to make procurement simple, offering great value and quality for products and services, all for zero cost. Just click on this link or visit their site at www.zeroprocure.com/podcast to help support both this podcast and your business.I love a bit of networking, and that's what led me to today's guest. I got some time with Greg Früchtenicht, Director of Partnerships at Saira Hospitality (https://www.sairahospitality.com/).As always, we get through loads including:-...
2022-11-091h 04
Hospitality Leadership Podcast - Restaurant and Hotel Leadership.Bridging The Gap Between Hospitality and The Local Communities with Greg Früchtenicht of Saira HospitalityToday I chat with Greg Früchtenicht, Director of Partnerships at Saira Hospitality, which is a business that partners with hospitality brands to help them foster connections with their local communities to help the business benefit the local area as well as create employment for those people that live in the local communities. In this episode, we chat about;What Saira Hospitality does and its work with hospitality partners and their local communities;How their business and community framework could transfer to other sectors of hospitality, and;some steps that you can take to begin creating stronger ties with your l...
2022-07-2038 min