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She asserts that she has always challenge. There are also some Groupon/discount code model was
tried to treat employees as age old issues in the spa industry in full swing and her organization
individuals and make sure she has that the organization has been was in the middle of recession.
good relationships with her team, really adamant about changing. “Everyone thought I was mad
so she knows when someone needs In particular the attitude towards starting a business that was
extra support. She tries to facilitate anyone with or recovering from essentially a luxury product, but
flexibility wherever possible, and cancer has been an industry wide I knew the industry, I knew what
in recent years she has been able to issue that it is working on with I envisaged for it and why it was
enshrine that in an organizational other industry leaders – that’s different, and I backed that up by
policy a bit more. Abi thinks for really all about education and surrounding myself with people
everyone, including women, the understanding. Abi comprehends who I knew were good at their jobs
challenge of having a healthy that the same applies really to any and who I could really trust. I think
work/life balance is really tricky, other serious health condition. it’s probably called a strategic
but she thinks her organization is The team at Spabreaks.com has risk,” Abi adds.
doing something right because, done a lot of work to open up the
90% of its senior management spa industry to anyone who has Abi aims to continue to develop
executives are women, who have previously felt marginalized, but the way that spas are perceived,
grown through the company have also realised that things don’t to widen people’s understanding
and the company has seen change overnight. that spas can heal, and to dispel
them through births, deaths and the idea that it’s just about beauty.
everything in between. Setting a Benchmark Abi wants to enhance the healing
nature of spas in the UK so that
The ongoing challenge for Abi has Asserting upon the ideal question they compete on the same level
been to change the perception that of what an entrepreneur’s as European spas, educate the UK
spas are just about beauty and are perspective should be, Abi States, spa goers about the true European
just for women, and to highlight “I think it’s a combination of spa experience, and continue to
their importance for wellness as knowing your market, surrounding grow Spabreaks.com’s overseas
well. Spabreaks.com has done a yourself with good people and portfolio.
lot to change that over the years trusting your gut.” When Abi
but still continues to be an ongoing first started Spabreaks.com the
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