Meet the HWF Executive Team
Halee Whiting, President
Halee Whiting is a creative, outside-of-the-box, seasoned hospitality professional that offers a different perspective on sales, marketing and content creation. She decided to create Hospitality with a Flair because helping hotels is her passion. After an extensive work history with various brands and independent hotels on property and in a remote capacity she knew with that hotels could be serviced and helped better.
The mission of Hospitality with a Flair is to create custom sales approaches for hotels. A one size fits all hotel sales support service does not work for every property. Halee's approach is to work together with hotel owners to create a service plan with them that will strengthen the hotel's personal brand, create elevated experiences for the hotel's guests and increase revenue!
Prior to founding Hospitality with a Flair, Halee has worked in the hospitality industry for 14+ years. She started in housekeeping and at the front desk. From there she soared into Sales & Catering by force in many different managerial roles. Her most recent role prior included being a Regional Director of Sales over a portfolio of up to 13+ hotels from independents to various brands like Hilton, Choice, IHG, Wyndham, GrandStay and Red Lion. Halee also has experience with Casino Hotels, Radisson and Best Western. She has also served as the youngest Hotel Executive Committee Chair for her local CVB and even chaired her own committee that specialized in Travel/Tour/FIT destination sales. When she doesn't have her hands in hotel work, she is writing for her own travel blog, coaching AAU Basketball, and keeping her family busy!
Alysha Kurani, Vice President of Sales & Acquisitions
Alysha found her passion within hospitality industry early on at the young age of 15, where she started as a Front Desk Agent at a locally owned Days Inn & Suites. Shortly after graduating from Baylor University in 2014, she transitioned into sales. Since then, she quickly excelled in her role in leading teams that oversaw various brands across multiple markets. Her experience include roles with Wyndham, IHG, Marriott, Hilton, Radisson, and Best Western. During her tenure, she has created impactful relationships within the respective brands leadership teams, travel agencies, property management companies and more. Hotel sales is her passion and has driven her to help create an effective remote sales team at HWF Hotels.
Alysha is a native Texan but loves to travel extensively.
Monica Lucier, Director of Executive Operations
Monica is an incredible hotel sales expert and is a huge part of the success of the HWF team. In her role, she supports the culture of HWF with the team and works on endeavors that will increase efficiency for our hotels. She is a seasoned hospitality professional with 19 years of various brand experience and has a Bachelor of Science in Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management from New Mexico State University.
Outside of work, I enjoy singing, crafting, exploring new restaurants with my husband, and spending quality time with my family and my beautiful dog Lucia.
Sarah Hills, Creative Director
Sarah assists our hotel and team with all of their creative endeavors. Sarah and her team collaborate on hotel social media projects and create consistent content for our entire portfolio. Sarah has worked in a variety of positions in the hotel industry and has spent the last three years specializing in marketing and social media. She has assisted our clients with out-of-the-box creations for pre-opening events and even billboards.
When she is not creating magic for our hotels, she is spending time with her son and husband. Sarah creates Montessori downloads and loves going to Disney with her family.
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