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WORLD
BE ATERS

CLODAGH
CLODAGH DESIGN

BARBARA LAZAROFF
IMAGININGS INTERIOR DESIGN, INC.

ELLEN MITCHELL- KOZACK
HKS INC.

HITESH PATEL
CAPITAL CITY HOSPITALITY GROUP

INGO SCHWEDER
GOCO HOSPITALITY

PETER STANISLAUS
213 HOSPITALITY

Prepare to get motivated to change your projects, process
and the plight of people who need help in your neighborhood
and on the other side of the globe. Seven hospitality industry
superheroes show what a huge difference one person can make.
BY MARY SCOVIAK AND ORIANA LERNER

THIS YEAR'S HEROES AND MAVERICKS feature comes with a conscience advisory
warning. If you've used any of the standard excuses to avoid standing up for what you
believe at work or stepping up to give back in your (all-too-short) off-hours, you're
probably going to feel some real-time guilt.
That's exactly why Boutique Design chose these diverse role models. They all have
time-intensive day jobs. They've all risked a lot to buck conventional wisdom and bring
human-centric improvements to their workplaces and work processes. And, they've all
seen that, when they came face-to-face with people who really need help, it's on them to
find a way to lend a hand-and then enlist support from family, friends, colleagues and
anyone within reach of social media.
There's no template for superhero/maverick status. AAHOA's Hitesh Patel, Hilton's
Larry Traxler and HKS Inc.'s Ellen Mitchell-Kozack have the context of industry giants
to help get their messages heard (interesting that Patel is known for his steady-handed
leadership while both of the latter consider themselves introverts). Clodagh, who
heads her eponymous design firm, and Barbara Lazaroff, of Imaginings Interior Design,
Inc./Wolfgang Puck Brand, IP, followed their singular visions to success-including
when they were just voices in the wilderness (Clodagh took flak for championing alternative modalities; Lazaroff was pilloried for her love of strong color and embrace of
forward-looking technology). GOCO Hospitality's Ingo Schweder had to face down a
life-threatening bout with cancer to find his true path to wellness hospitality and a
commitment to make giving back part of his life and workstyle. 213 Hospitality's Peter
Stanislaus fell in love with Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), but that love wasn't blind.
He clearly saw the need to improve the lot of the area's homeless and spearheaded a
program to address that.
These overachievers found ways to use their weekends, holidays and work connections to make their 9-to-whatever lives and those of the far less fortunate better. And
so can you. Find out how they do it-and get more details on their roadmaps to
changing the world here and in an exclusive web extra on BoutiqueDesign.com.
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LARRY TRAXLER
GLOBAL DESIGN, HILTON

DA N I E L AU B R Y ( C L O DAG H ) ; C O U R T E S Y O F I M AG I N I N G S I N T E R I O R D E S I G N I N C . ( L A Z A R O F F ) ; C O U R T E S Y O F H K S I N C . ( M I T C H E L L - KOZ AC K ) ; C O U R T E S Y O F A A H OA ( PAT E L ) ;
C O U R T E S Y O F G O C O H O S P I TA L I T Y ( S C H W E D E R ) ; C O U R T E S Y O F 2 13 H O S P I TA L I T Y ( S TA N I S L A U S ) ; R O B E R T I S AC S O N ( T R A X L E R )

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