Our Team

Thor has been a Board Member since 2017. He was previously President of the GSN Planet Board of Directors, was Secretary Treasurer of the International Spa Association during his six years on the ISPA Board and served for two years on the Flagler County Tourism Development Council.

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Suzy Bordeaux Johlfs,  has 35 years of  experience in her hospitality career.   Her current role is with the  Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa California,  as she proudly holds the Spa Director title at this iconic resort. Earlier she successfully opened a Platinum LEED Certified Resort in Colorado, where she was part of a team that won two prestigious Conde Nast  Reader ‘s Choice Awards back to back. 2010  #1  Resort  in the United States and  in 2011  #2 Spa in the United States as well as opened the spa as the first luxury green spa in the state of Colorado. She loves to spend time with her family, as well as enjoy a great bottle of wine, as she is former wine bar owner and collector.

Lynn founded CSC in 2011, a certified Women’s Owned Enterprise, which provides financial feasibility, design, concept, and preopening consulting services to upscale and luxury hotel, resort, and casino spas and wellness facilities. She is a Certified Management Consultant, a member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, and Educator with Gerson Lehrman Councils. Lynn started her hospitality career in destination and hotel sales with the Anaheim CVB and Hyatt Resorts Hawaii, ultimately leading to spa operations when she opened Spa Grande at Grand Wailea Resort. She is an avid lover of the outdoors and spends her free time outrigger paddling competitively and hiking at home and on her travels.

My personal mission statement in life is to add value to the people, the planet and the businesses I serve.  My career has spanned from high school lacrosse coach to massage therapist to corporate spa director – and many things in between.  Everyday I strive to lead gracefully, teach wisely, learn & listen patiently,  grow beautifully – and create spaces for others to do the same.

Brett currently lives in the Chicago area with his two teenage kids that he loves to travel with. He is dedicated to sustainability initiatives including carbon offsets and the preservation of our oceans and coral reefs. Prior to moving to Chicago, Brett lived in the San Francisco Bay area where he worked in technology with multiple startups. 

Sallie Fraenkel is President of Mind Body Spirit Network, a company focused on wellness travel consulting and experiential events. Sallie is passionate about sustainable wellness tourism believing that wellness of the individual is inextricably linked with wellness of the planet. Making meaningful connections for people is a key part of Sallie’s purpose.

Nicole is an entrepreneur, startup advisor, avid yogi and amateur creative. In her current position as COO of Honua Hawaiian Skincare, she leads operations and marketing, which means she may be fine-tuning a new formula one day, ensuring the latest products make it to stores and e-commerce sites the next day, or planning one of the Honua’s annual sustainability events another day. Before making the career jump to consumer and beauty, Nicole was an investment banker and passionate renewable energy and sustainability devotee, holding senior positions at Citigroup, Inc. and SolarCity.  She lives in the thriving city of San Francisco, keeping very busy as a mom to two tiny humans and is usually found planning their next adventure.

Kate joined Ojai Valley Inn’s spa management team in 2010. Her passion for excellence in luxury spa experiences paired with her innovative spirit have helped strengthen the renowned reputation Spa Ojai holds in the industry. In recent years, Kate has expanded wellness programming at Spa Ojai to include creative, spiritual, and nutritional elements and has introduced signature experiences that are exclusive to Ojai. Additionally, her role includes identifying, developing, driving passion for green initiatives; focusing on opportunities to make the Ojai Valley Inn a more sustainably-minded organization. Under Kate‘s leadership, Spa Ojai has been awarded the Preferred Hotels Pineapple Award recognizing Leadership in Sustainability for the 2017 Single-Use Plastic Free initiative and won an ISPA Innovation Award in 2018 for a Holistic Approach to Workplace Wellness Initiative. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara and eight years of previous spa and wellness leadership experience with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.

Adar Venyige, VP of Sales and Marketing for Dazzle Dry Nail Lacquer, was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and currently resides in Phoenix AZ with his 2 children, Hannah 9 and Isaac 6.

Charné began her career as an intellectual property lawyer during which time she developed a keen interest and commitment towards organic cosmetics, sustainable agriculture and green buildings. In 2003 she combined her corporate background with these skills to conceive and develop the first dedicated organic spa in South Africa. To wide acclaim, she received the prestigious Les Nouvelles Award for Unique Spa and also an award for excellence from the regional Institute for Architects in recognition of the sustainable design features of the spa building. In 2010, Charné qualified as an accredited professional of the Green Building Council of South Africa and received the Les Nouvelles Visionary Award.

Speaking on sustainability at major conferences and training institutions, Charné has published a number of articles and essays, including authoring the Green Spa Guide, sharing her knowledge of green building principles, fair trade, organic cosmetics and sustainability with the wellbeing industry. Through Charné’s leadership and guidance, Greenspa.Africa connects sustainable spa’s in Africa, assisting them in implementing sustainable business practices. Charné’s work continues expanding in the development of integrated sustainability tools such as the Sustainable Spa Practitioner Course and Greenspa Calculator, an audit tool available as a mobile app.

Michael is CEO of One Well World, a group of companies, including a non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable foundation. Among them is NaturalBeautyGroup.com, an eCommerce spa product boutique, OM4 Organic Male, and haia. He holds an MSOD in organization and design and development from Loyola University’s School of Business in Chicago, specializing in work systems engineering. With more than 22 years of experience in healthcare administration, Michael maintains an interest in integrative health and wellness and has led several building projects and service implementations bridging traditional and nontraditional therapies in the hospital setting. After his career in healthcare, Michael purchased and operated a 16-room destination inn and spa in La Conner, WA, where he became interested in spa product development to fill a glaring gap in the market—men’s skincare. Now 12 years later, Mike saw another glaring unfulfilled niche – inclusive beauty and founded the gender-agnostic brand, haia (Happy as I Am) in 2021. His broad expertise in marketing, brand development, best-practice operational systems design and management has served him well in his entrepreneurial life. In his spare time, mike loves being out in the natural world and considers it essential to maintaining a healthy, unbiased perspective.