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Beyond Standards
Transformation

Participants will cultivate emotional intelligence to understand how service standards truly elevate guest experiences. They’ll learn to anticipate needs instinctively and respond with authentic empathy by exploring the “why” and “how” behind the “what.” Your team members will develop the intuitive ability to see beyond checklists, always grounding their service delivery in the guest’s perspective.

Standards Impact Awareness

Gain an expanded understanding of how service standards directly influence and elevate the guest experience.

Guest-centric Perspective

Explore the “why” and “how” behind the “what” — always grounding service delivery in the guest’s perspective.

Guest Experience Intuition

Sharpened ability to anticipate guest needs instinctively and respond with empathy, confidence, and authenticity.

Participants will develop career-defining leadership capabilities that position them for advancement within your organisation. They’ll learn to drive meaningful service improvements while mastering practical approaches to energise teams around a shared vision of excellence. These distinctive skills will equip your staff to lead positive change and inspire service culture throughout your property.

Career-Progression Readiness

Gain distinctive, career-defining skills that set you apart and position you for future leadership opportunities.

Service-Leadership Capability

Build the capability to drive meaningful service improvements and lead change within your hotel.

Team Empowerment & Leadership

Learn practical approaches to energise and align teams around a shared vision of service excellence.

Participants will return to your property equipped with actionable strategies and tools they can implement immediately. They’ll develop a service innovation mindset that actively seeks opportunities to create memorable, differentiating guest moments. Your team members will expand their perspective beyond individual departments, learning to design seamless, cross-functional guest experiences that enhance your hotel’s overall service delivery.

Implementation Toolkit

Leave equipped with actionable strategies and tools ready to apply in your hotel from day one.

Service Innovation Mindset

Develop a mindset that seeks out and seizes opportunities to create memorable, differentiating guest moments.

Holistic Service Perspective

Expand your view beyond individual departments to design seamless, cross-functional guest experiences.

Acceleration
Immersion

Our interactive approach replaces lectures with dynamic, hands-on sessions that fully engage participants. Through realistic scenarios and real-time feedback, your team members become active contributors, ensuring deeper understanding and higher retention of concepts.

Each experience simulates the authentic pressures of luxury service, creating emotional connections to the material. By maximising practical application, participants develop intuitive service responses that become second nature when they return to your property.

Active Engagement

Active participation ensures concepts are internalised, not just understood.

Practical Skills, Not Theory

Immersive scenarios mirror real luxury service challenges for immediate application.

Immerse Connection

Multi-sensory engagement makes service responses intuitive, not procedural.

Participants experience the complete guest journey by rotating through multiple hotel departments. This cross-functional exposure breaks down traditional silos, revealing how touchpoints interconnect to form the overall guest experience. By stepping into different roles, your team gains perspective on service challenges across departments.

This holistic understanding transforms narrow viewpoints into a comprehensive guest-centric approach. Your rising stars will develop empathy for colleagues in other areas and create seamless experiences that transcend departmental boundaries.

Cross-Departmental Perspective

Rotation through multiple roles breaks down silos and reveals interconnected guest experiences.

Empathy Across Functions

Understanding challenges beyond one’s own department builds collaborative service leadership.

Seamless Experience Design

Participants learn to create cohesive journeys that transcend traditional operational boundaries.

Participants engage in realistic scenario-based training within our purpose-built luxury hotel environment. These carefully crafted role-plays replicate high-stakes service moments, allowing your team to practice complex guest interactions in a safe but authentic setting.

Through immediate feedback and guided reflection, these immersive exercises build practical skills and confident decision-making. Your rising stars will develop muscle memory for exceptional service responses, preparing them to handle challenging situations with poise and personalised attention when they return to your hotel.

Real Scenarios, Real Results

Authentic role-plays in luxury environments build confidence for high-stakes guest interactions.

Practice Makes Permanent

Repeated immersion in challenging situations develops intuitive service responses that last.

Safe Space for Risk-Taking

Participants can experiment in a controlled setting before applying at your hotel.

Participants benefit from a diverse learning community that brings together rising stars from global luxury properties. This international, cross-functional collaboration creates a rich dialogue where different cultural perspectives and operational approaches are shared openly.

Through structured exchanges and collaborative challenges, your team members gain insights from peers facing similar challenges in different contexts. This expanded perspective helps participants see beyond their property’s established practices to discover innovative service approaches they can adapt for your unique guest experience.

Global Perspectives

Exposure to diverse cultural approaches to luxury service broadens participants’ service toolkit beyond local practices.

Collective Problem-Solving

Cross-functional collaboration reveals innovative solutions that individual departments might never discover alone.

Network of Excellence

Participants build lasting relationships with global peers, creating valuable connections for continued learning.

Participants synthesise their learning through a comprehensive final presentation that demonstrates understanding and articulation of key concepts. This culminating project requires analysing a service challenge, developing innovative solutions, and communicating with clarity and confidence.

Our assessment evaluates through practical demonstrations of service leadership, not theoretical examinations. This ensures participants have truly internalised principles and can apply them effectively, returning to your property with proven capabilities to implement meaningful improvements.

Applied Leadership Showcase

Final presentations require participants to translate concepts into strategic solutions for real luxury challenges.

Communication Confidence

Presentation skills developed prepare participants to influence and inspire teams at your property.

Practical Mastery Assessment

Evaluation based on demonstrated capabilities ensures immediate application value for your hotel.

Who Should Attend

Hospitality professionals

Seeking to accelerate their careers.

Quality managers

Who want to broaden their perspective.
Certification & Recognition

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Details Logistics

Cost:

£2,950 per participant for 2025 (£3,950 full rate)

Small class sizes:

Maximum 16 participants

Schedule:

Monthly intakes

Inclusions:

Hotel transfers, daily lunch, breakfast, networking dinner

Accommodations:

Partner hotel near Academy

For just £2,950 per participant (special 2025 rate), your team members will experience our immersive five-day Academy and return ready to elevate guest experiences across your property.

Spaces are limited to 16 participants per intake—secure your hotel’s competitive advantage today.

Your rising leaders will gain…

  • Intuitive guest-centric mindsets that anticipate needs and create memorable moments
  • Practical leadership capabilities to inspire teams and drive excellence across departments
  • Actionable strategies ready for immediate implementation at your property
  • Access to a global network of luxury hospitality professionals committed to service excellence
  • Experience in our purpose-built luxury environment with all materials, meals, and transfers included
  • Personalised attention and focused development with just 16 participants per intake
Inquire

    Location Information
    Lisbon

    123 Nectar St. Suite 4917
    hello@academy.com