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Lionel Ohayon

Hospitality Design: What I've Learned

Defining Hospitality Podcast

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Lionel Ohayon says "The most important thing you'll ever do is design your own path." Since founding ICRAVE in 2002, Ohayon has taken a transformative approach to design, integrating technology in spaces from hospitals to airports. After 20 years of award-winning work, ICRAVE has joined forces with Futures Intelligence Group and Skilled Creative to create Journey, a futurescaping company to imagine and execute the next generation of hospitality.

Lionel Ohayon says "The most important thing you'll ever do is design your own path." Since founding ICRAVE in 2002, Ohayon has taken a transformative approach to design, integrating technology in spaces from hospitals to airports. After 20 years of award-winning work, ICRAVE has joined forces with Futures Intelligence Group and Skilled Creative to create Journey, a futurescaping company to imagine and execute the next generation of hospitality.

Lionel Ohayon, ICRAVE

Lionel Ohayon, Founder and CEO of ICRAVE Design, lives by the philosophy of “when one door closes, another door opens.” He has created groundbreaking designs at places like terminal 5 at JFK, as well designing parts of the Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital. Lionel joins host Dan Ryan to share how his life experiences have influenced the way he views and creates #hospitality.   Takeaways:    Lionel designed terminal 5 for JetBlue at JFK, and when designing it he focused on trying to make people feel comfortable and relaxed with flying.  Hospitality is an ever-growing part of everyday life for people. The interaction between humans can be hospitality and how we perceive it is important. Understanding the essence of hospitality is more important than having the nicest hotel or restaurant. Your paradigm in life shouldn’t be “why me?”, but rather “try me,” facing any issues that come into your life head on and accepting new challenges.  You must be the hero of your own journey. Life can throw unexpected twists your way but it’s important to handle them the right way and see the silver lining. There are great opportunities to profoundly impact our world. With the advancement of technology and virtual reality, these can be used for good to bridge the divide between people.    Quote of the Show:   13:10 “I tell clients so often, like I can guild your place in gold, but if you don't understand the essence of hospitality, what the triggers are to make people feel comfortable to, or to allow people, those opportunities to step through the looking glass and learn something new about themselves, right? To experience color in a way that they haven't because you are leading, you have an expectation about what the emotional response will be. Or what the inputs are of place, that is more about placemaking than about understanding the way things look and feel. I think that hospitality today is critical. It's an ever-growing important piece of the human interaction that we're all concerned about.”   Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lionelohayon?lang=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lionelohayon/ Website: https://www.icrave.com    Shout Outs: 0:09 Memorial Sloan Kettering 0:59 Stacy Shoemaker 2:48 JetBlue 8:42 Tesla 9:51 Disney Cruise Ships 19:23 Tao 21:18 Crowbar 26:17 St. Jude’s 27:33 St. Luke’s 30:40 Compass Group 31:15 “Why Me?” book by  44:14 Michael J. Fox 44:18 Doc Hollywood 49:33 The Hotel of Tomorrow 49:44 Oculus 50:10 Ready Player One 50:14 Wall-E 52:15 Ken Burns Civil War documentary   Ways to Tune In:  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A2XOJvb6mGqEPYJ5bilPX Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defining-hospitality-podcast/id1573596386 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmaW5pbmdob3NwaXRhbGl0eS5saXZlL2ZlZWQueG1s Amazon Music: ​​https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8c904932-90fa-41c3-813e-1cb8f3c42419 Podbean: https://www.defininghospitality.live/ Youtube : https://youtu.be/Vzic6OgdVpk

Lionel Ohayon, Founder and CEO of ICRAVE Design, lives by the philosophy of “when one door closes, another door opens.” He has created groundbreaking designs at places like terminal 5 at JFK, as well designing parts of the Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital. Lionel joins host Dan Ryan to share how his life experiences have influenced the way he views and creates #hospitality. Takeaways:  <ul><li>Lionel designed terminal 5 for JetBlue at JFK, and when designing it he focused on trying to make people feel comfortable and relaxed with flying. </li> <li>Hospitality is an ever-growing part of everyday life for people. The interaction between humans can be hospitality and how we perceive it is important.</li> <li>Understanding the essence of hospitality is more important than having the nicest hotel or restaurant.</li> <li>Your paradigm in life shouldn’t be “why me?”, but rather “try me,” facing any issues that come into your life head on and accepting new challenges. </li> <li>You must be the hero of your own journey. Life can throw unexpected twists your way but it’s important to handle them the right way and see the silver lining.</li> <li>There are great opportunities to profoundly impact our world. With the advancement of technology and virtual reality, these can be used for good to bridge the divide between people.</li> </ul> Quote of the Show: 13:10 “I tell clients so often, like I can guild your place in gold, but if you don't understand the essence of hospitality, what the triggers are to make people feel comfortable to, or to allow people, those opportunities to step through the looking glass and learn something new about themselves, right? To experience color in a way that they haven't because you are leading, you have an expectation about what the emotional response will be. Or what the inputs are of place, that is more about placemaking than about understanding the way things look and feel. I think that hospitality today is critical. It's an ever-growing important piece of the human interaction that we're all concerned about.” Links: <ul><li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/lionelohayon?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/lionelohayon?lang=en</a></li> <li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lionelohayon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lionelohayon/</a></li> <li>Website: <a href="https://www.icrave.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.icrave.com</a></li> </ul> Shout Outs: 0:09 Memorial Sloan Kettering 0:59 Stacy Shoemaker 2:48 JetBlue 8:42 Tesla 9:51 Disney Cruise Ships 19:23 Tao 21:18 Crowbar 26:17 St. Jude’s 27:33 St. Luke’s 30:40 Compass Group 31:15 “Why Me?” book by  44:14 Michael J. Fox 44:18 Doc Hollywood 49:33 The Hotel of Tomorrow 49:44 Oculus 50:10 Ready Player One 50:14 Wall-E 52:15 Ken Burns Civil War documentary Ways to Tune In:  <ul><li>Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0A2XOJvb6mGqEPYJ5bilPX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/0A2XOJvb6mGqEPYJ5bilPX</a></li> <li>Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defining-hospitality-podcast/id1573596386" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defining-hospitality-podcast/id1573596386</a></li> <li>Google Podcasts: <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmaW5pbmdob3NwaXRhbGl0eS5saXZlL2ZlZWQueG1s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmaW5pbmdob3NwaXRhbGl0eS5saXZlL2ZlZWQueG1s</a></li> <li>Amazon Music: <a href="https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8c904932-90fa-41c3-813e-1cb8f3c42419" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">​​https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/8c904932-90fa-41c3-813e-1cb8f3c42419</a></li> <li>Podbean: <a href="https://www.defininghospitality.live/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.defininghospitality.live/</a></li> <li>Youtube : <a href="https://youtu.be/Vzic6OgdVpk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Vzic6OgdVpk</a></li></ul>