Chip Conley
Chip Conley is founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre (JdV), California’s largest independent hotel company and what USA Today called “the most delightfully schizophrenic collection of hotels in America.” Today JdV consists of over 40 unique and award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas, 3,000 employees, and annual revenues of $250 million. A best-selling author, Chip shares his unique prescription for success in his most recent book, PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow (Jossey-Bass, 2007). Chip and his company’s time-tested techniques and transformational leadership practices have been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2008, Chip was selected as one of the four finalists for the 2008 “Corporate Hotelier of the World” award by the prestigious Hotels magazine. In 2007, Chip was honored by the San Francisco Business Times as the Most Innovative CEO in the Bay Area, and the following year, JdV was awarded the 2nd Best Place to Work in the region. Chip founded San Francisco’s Annual Celebrity Pool Toss, which has raised over $3 million for inner city youth programs. Chip received his BA and MBA from Stanford University, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center in 2009.
