A comprehensive, wellness-hospitality, foresight advisory, and consultancy with a global network of resources.
Mia A. Mackman, Owner and Principal
Ms. Mackman is an award-winning wellness-hospitality visionary. She is the owner and principal of MackmanES Consulting, a comprehensive spa, wellness, and hospitality prevision advisory and consultancy. She specializes in complex financial, program, and facility development, detailed matrix modeling, strategic planning, CRE underwriting support, viability and feasibility, market forecasting, and asset repositioning. Ms. Mackman is recognized as a vanguard in the wellness sector for her rare and unique, multidimensional approach, pioneering cross-disciplinary wellness programming, and over 20 years of esteemed industry forecasting and market accuracy.
Since 2001, Ms. Mackman has been a trusted consultant for owners, global investment firms, hotel and resort companies, mixed-use property developers, and hospitality organizations. Her role as an industry expert at international think tanks, such as the Summit of Minds in Chamonix, and her efforts to improve global industry standards underscore her broad client base and her ability to navigate and excel in these rapidly evolving markets. Based in Sedona, Arizona, U.S., Ms. Mackman founded the Arizona Spa & Wellness Association in 2012. She formed the Association to create an educational network platform for spa professionals to learn how to integrate wellness and health services with traditional spa services. This was the first professional “Spa & Wellness” Association to enter the world market in 2012. In 2016, Ms. Mackman accepted the invitation to partner with the global hospitality firm HVS to create and lead the HVS Global Spa and Wellness Consulting Division and serve as Managing Director. In this partnership, she developed new-to-market, granular, integrative spa and wellness financial models for HVS, spearheading the division, working with HVS clients, leading lending institutions, investment groups, and owners to provide financial feasibility, consulting services, program development, and CRE underwriting support for HVS’ global client network.
In 2022, she stepped away from her role with HVS to continue her advisory and consulting work. She continues to support a diverse range of global clients and wellness hospitality projects. Her core values include a wide range of social wellness and healing ecosystems aimed at improving quality of life and advancing personal and holistic health while creating new financial and program models for innovative and successful business outcomes.
A Historical Timeline Of My
Market Predictions 2004 - 2024
The timeline of my market predictions aligns with extensive client work and the wide variety of published articles I have written throughout my career.
CORE VALUES
Health, Healing, and Humanity
Innovation and Purpose
Intuit Reflex, Trust, and Meaning
Social-Wellness Systems, and Collaboration
Strategic and Sociodemographic Foresight
Well-being and Community
Horticulture and Ecology
VISION
Immersive and Creative Programming
Native, Unique, and Scalable Models
Resilient and Flexible-Use Concepts
Original and Educational Asset Overlays
Broad Leisure and Use Ecosystems
Holistic Engagement, Growth and Retention
Metrics, Nuance and Financial Performance
Spa, Wellness, and Hospitality
Honors and Awards
