From Vision to Form

Susan Gwaltney, Principal of Essential Spa Consulting, is a seasoned international spa consultant with over twenty years of project management, space planning, operational solutions, human resource development, and marketing expertise. From imagined vision to its final form, she has structured the foundation for multiple openings and renovations of world-class facilities in major destinations around the world. Susan is well-known for her enthusiastic, can-do attitude that along with her vast global spa and cross-cultural experience enables her to quickly transition your project through general planning or crisis; be it urban, eco tourism, green spa or remote. Essential Spa Consulting is the necessary element to building, growing and reaching your successful spa mission.

Board of Directors, Membership Chair for the Washington Spa Alliance.

Clients & Projects

• Rancho la Puerta, Mexico
• The Fairmont, Washington, DC
• The Lorien Hotel and Spa
• Kimpton Resorts
• WTS International
• Half Moon Resort, Jamaica
• The Greenbrier, W.VA
• Colonial Williamsburg, VA
• Spa La Vie, LA
• Starwood Spa Collection
• The Turnberry Resort , Scotland
• Active Connection, UK
• Six Senses Destination Spas, Thailand
• Aman Resorts: US, Thailand, Morocco
• Rockefeller Family Associates, Wyoming
• Henlow Grange, UK
• Spa Deus, Italy
• Abercrombie & Kent, South Africa, Botswana
• Founder of Cowboy Coffee Company
• SomaSpa, Washington, DC
• Karkloof Spa, South Africa
• Mazambala Island Lodge, Namibia