HOTELSLIFE: SENSEI'S KEVIN KELLY

摘要

HotelsLife is a new weekly interview with thought leaders and disrupters by HOTELS Editor in Chief Jeff Weinstein. Here's just a sampling of what you'll find every Thursday on hotelsmag.com: Kevin Kelly is CEO of The Sensei Way, which applies data-driven knowledge and technology to food, health and lifestyle. Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison - who owns nearly all of the Hawaiian island of Lanai, including the Sensei Lanai, A Four Seasons Resort - developed Sensei with a scientist-physician partner and wants to open a health retreat there. Kelly's role is to turn Sensei into a global wellness company. "If you think about wellness, it is a collection of bio-markers, the physical aspects of well-being," he said. "How do we use technology to more fluidly connect those data points, and then give proper, easy, digestible feedback to our customer?" Ultimately, the goal is to shift from information collection to behavioral change. "You educate, empower, you create experiences, you create tools for people, they absorb them and they decide which of those experiences, knowledge, tools they want to use... Consumers are going to want to go to places that are more serious, capable and have more evidence and science behind their practices. I think that bodes well for us."