Christopher Huber Email & Phone Number

Healdsburg, Ca, Us

Calistoga, California, Us

* With exceptional hospitality skills, hosts high-value loyalty members, trade guests, and other VIP’s.* Cultivates outstanding client relationships to earn outstanding sales conversions and repeat visits.* Works with a continuous improvement mindset to improve sales and operational practices.

As a spiritual director, Christopher accompanies others on their spiritual journey by practicing "contemplative listening," as they seek to experience God/Spirit in their everyday lives. Christopher focuses on living a life of contemplation without being in a monastery. He is on the path of letting go of the ego (not an easy task—especially for men—yet spiritual maturity calls us to do just that) to be transformed into his True Self (as coined by Trappist monk, Thomas Merton). He sits with clients across faith traditions. In February 2018, he was received as an Oblate with the community of monks at New Camaldoli Hermitage.

* Launched winery direct sales to on-premise accounts* Developed and maintained new on-premise accounts in northern California.* Conducted wine education for on-premise account team members

Healdsburg, Ca, Us

• Grew and maintained on-premise accounts in Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Alameda & Contra Costa counties.• With exceptional hospitality, hosted high-value loyalty members, trade guests, and other VIP’s.• Cultivated outstanding client relationships to earn outstanding sales conversions and repeat visits.• Worked with a continuous improvement mindset to improve sales and operational practices.• Developed and conducted new hired staff training and ongoing team development.

Developed KPI assessments and action plans for wineries to improve sales, operations and guest experiences. Clients included: Chateau Montelena, Chandon, Martin Ray, Round Pond, Clos du Val, Merryvale, Starmont Lambert Bridge, Merryvale, Balletto, Michel Schlumberger, Seghesio and Vintage Wine Estates.• Wrote and implemented sales and hospitality training for Chandon team during launch of new wine club member venue after closing restaurant.• Led development and implementation of a new Direct-to-Consumer program for Martin Ray Winery.• Earned client’s business to deliver my proprietary sales and hospitality workshops.

Santa Rosa, Ca, Us

Guided DTC teams for nine brands with 150 employees with revenue of 25 million dollars.• Financial — Authored 2012 operating and capital budgets for nine brands. Improved e-commerce sales by 20% and tasting room and wine club sales by 13%.• Systems — Conducted needs analysis, vendor selection and began design phase for new POS and e-commerce platforms while developing innovative multi-brand online store.• Operational and Team Wellness — developed operational best practices and worked tirelessly to improve morale.

Led DTC team of 45 employees producing sales of 12 million dollars.• Managed winery-direct sales to restaurants and hotels.• Re-engineered online sales, launched tasting room and wine club campaigns that achieved 25% annual revenue increases for three consecutive years.• Developed new specialty tastings and sales practices that elevated guest satisfaction while improving purchase and wine club conversion rates by 12%.• Invented two new wine clubs and redesigned sales strategy to drive $100,000 in revenue during the Great Recession.• Wrote and implemented DTC training platform for new hires.

• Designed and delivered teambuilding, sales and hospitality training for Marriott hotels all over the southwest United States, and several wineries across Napa and Sonoma.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Led development of Residence Inn by Marriott Service So Memorable training initiative by managing team and resources to implement a turn-key, property-based program for the brand of 300 hotels.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Led a region of 40 Residence Inn hotels in their continuous improvement journey, mentoring teams to achieve award-winning guest satisfaction. Coordinated pre-opening hotel punch lists, evaluated compliance with property improvement plans for "red-zone" hotels and played a vital role with the Quality Assurance department's own continuous improvement. Authored and implemented brand initiatives in the area of training and development, vendor relations, and capital improvement plans.

Bethesda, Md, Us

General Manager with Residence Inn by Marriott, San Diego; Director of Restaurants, San Francisco Marriott, Moscone Center

Education record

2 Year Certificate Program, Spiritual Direction And Contemplative Retreat Leadership