You don't have to do this alone.
Ongoing mentorship for independent hospitality founders.
You don't have to do this alone.
You run a hospitality business, a pub, a restaurant, a café, a bar, a small hotel, a venue, a street food business, a small group.
Whatever the format, whatever the stage, you know exactly what this means. The hours. The weight. Smiling for customers, holding your team together, carrying the business on days when nobody's carrying you.
Kith & Kin is ongoing mentorship for independent hospitality founders, structured monthly learning, direct accountability, and real professional development you can genuinely justify as an investment in your own business, not just something nice to have.
Not another course.
Not another expert telling you what to do.
You're not short of ideas. You've got plenty. What you don't have is someone who's actually done it, standing beside you.
Cassie Davison spent 25 years as a founder operator herself, building and running her own hospitality businesses. Over 30 years in the industry altogether. An MBA. 25+ industry awards. An author. But alongside all of that, the dark days too. Uncertainty. Overwhelm. Decisions that should have been small feeling enormous, at the worst possible moment. She's started again more than once. Kith & Kin isn't built on the awards. It's built on everything that came before them, and everything that happened on the way to getting them.
Built on the Five Pillars of Stand Out Hospitality
Every masterclass, every surgery, every conversation comes back to the same framework: Set High Standards. Stand Out. Define Your Identity. Build Belonging. Tell a Great Story. Not borrowed theory, the actual method behind a working, award-winning hospitality business.
What you get
Two structured masterclasses a month. New ideas, yes, but more than that, the energy and motivation you came in without.
A monthly wellbeing session. Because without you, there is no business. Everything depends on you, and almost nothing is built to remind you of that, let alone look after it.
A monthly surgery. Bring the thing you're actually stuck on. Get real clarity and direct accountability, not generic advice.
This is real, structured professional development, built specifically for independent hospitality founders, not training borrowed from a different industry.
Join at the ground floor
Kith & Kin is new, and early members shape what it becomes. You get direct, ongoing access to Cassie from day one, not a finished programme with the personal attention already stretched thin. As the group grows, it becomes something more, founders supporting founders, not just one mentor and a room, but that takes real time to build properly, and founding members are at the centre of building it.
Why this matters, beyond you
Private equity decided what success in hospitality looks like. Build an idea, get backed, scale fast. Most of it fails. The ones that don't often lose the thing that made them special in the first place, and the high street fills up with the same options everywhere you go.
We don't believe that. We think the founder-led places, the ones with real personality, the ones that actually mean something to the people who walk through the door, are the real diamonds of this industry. And as the world gets more digital and more isolated, places like yours, where people get to be human, matter more every year, not less.
It changes over time, and that's the point
In the beginning, you'll come for the ideas and the direct mentorship. Over time, as the community grows, you'll also have other founders in the room who genuinely understand what you're facing. Eventually, you'll keep coming not because you need to learn something new every time, but because it's good for you to come back, the way the gym keeps you steady, the way sitting down to breathe for ten minutes does.
You already know more than you think. We're just here to remind you.
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