Biographies
Short bio
Hospitality entrepreneur. Operator. Author. Speaker. Cassie Davison has spent more than 30 years in hospitality and 25 years building and leading her own award-winning pubs, bars, restaurants and festival concepts.
Across her career, her businesses earned 3 AA Rosettes and more than 25 industry and business awards. She is the author of Stand Out Hospitality, a finalist in the Business Book Awards 2026.
Medium bio
Hospitality entrepreneur. Operator. Author. Speaker. Cassie Davison has spent more than 30 years in hospitality, including 25 years building and leading her own award-winning pubs, bars, restaurants and festival concepts.
Across her career, her businesses earned 3 AA Rosettes and more than 25 industry and business awards, while Cassie was recognised for entrepreneurship, leadership and business performance.
She is the author of Stand Out Hospitality: How to Have a Business You Love That Loves You Back, a finalist in the Business Book Awards 2026.
Drawing on decades inside the industry, Cassie speaks about what it takes to build distinctive businesses, lead people, protect standards, earn trust and create places customers and teams want to belong to.
Long bio
Hospitality entrepreneur. Operator. Author. Speaker. Cassie Davison has spent more than 30 years in hospitality and 25 years building and leading her own pubs, bars, restaurants and festival concepts.
Across her career, her businesses earned 3 AA Rosettes and more than 25 industry and business awards, with Cassie recognised for entrepreneurship, leadership and business performance. Her venues and work have also been featured by The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, BBC, Forbes, Restaurant Magazine, The Caterer and Olive Magazine.
That experience became the foundation for Stand Out Hospitality: How to Have a Business You Love That Loves You Back, now a finalist in the Business Book Awards 2026.
Cassie speaks from decades inside the arena about what it really takes to build and lead businesses people care about. Her work explores how leaders create clarity, build identity, protect standards, earn trust, develop loyalty and create businesses that customers and teams want to belong to.
Her perspective is practical, commercially grounded and rooted in the reality of carrying responsibility for the people, performance and future of a business.
Event Intro Script
Please use this short script to introduce Cassie to your audience, adapting as relevant:
Our next speaker for {insert event name here} has spent more than 30 years in hospitality and 25 years building and leading her own award-winning pubs, bars, restaurants and festival concepts.
Across her career, her businesses earned 3 AA Rosettes and more than 25 industry and business awards, and she has been recognised for entrepreneurship, leadership and business performance.
She is also the author of Stand Out Hospitality: How to Have a Business You Love That Loves You Back, a finalist in the Business Book Awards 2026.
Cassie speaks from decades inside the arena about what it really takes to build and lead businesses people care about, from creating clarity and protecting standards to building identity, earning trust and creating places customers and teams want to belong to.
Today, she is going to share that experience with us and explore {insert talk theme or event challenge here OR how we can feel more confident, capable and optimistic about the businesses we lead}.
Please give a very warm welcome to hospitality entrepreneur, operator, author and speaker, Cassie Davison.
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