Brian Hexem · San Francisco Bay Area
“Leadership begins by understanding what people genuinely need.”
Assistant General Manager, Bon Appétit at Adobe.
Multi-market openings, sales growth, and operational recoveries across high-volume retail and hospitality.
Three chapters from the floor: open the store, build the team, then keep the standard after launch.
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01 · Open
My career spans multi-concept workplace hospitality, multi-unit operations, people development, and new-store openings.
What changed at this stage: I expanded into a campus-wide leadership role spanning multi-concept dining, front- and back-of-house teams, and large-scale events.
Standards, people, and practical systems—on the floor and in the product.
Operating framework
Gather the facts before you assume. Reconcile what was expected with what is actually happening, name the gap and its causes, then adjust. Verify that the adjustment worked.
Reconciliation is the move from what was expected to what happened. Adjustment is the action after the facts are known.
Communicate clearly, directly, and consistently.
Keep the work and the team ahead of being right.
Understand what is actually happening before deciding what to change.
Improve the operation without trading away quality or the team.
Ask better questions and stay open to what the floor is telling you.
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The daily systems that keep a high-volume location running consistently.
02
Finding, developing, and coaching the people who make a store run well.
03
Taking a location from pre-opening preparation to confident day-one execution.
04
The product knowledge and service standards that keep customers coming back.
05
Turn real needs into practical workflows, usable interfaces, and a working product.
Founder & Project Lead · 2025–Present
One range. One voice. One foothold. One flare.
A personal-development platform built around nine separate mountains of life. Support comes first. Choose the mountains that belong to this season, then take one realistic next step—without blending your life into one score.
I lead product strategy, UX, information architecture, brand, development, and testing. It is the same work I do in operations: make the need clear, build the system, and keep improving what happens next.
Survival support, Flare, the whole-life scan, and the Vitality guide and instruments. With an account, save seasonal choices and record weekly camp check-ins. The preview is still being refined.
Broader seasonal Range continuity, footholds across more mountains, broader reassessment support, and clearer return-to-trail continuity.
Managed Brian during his Starbucks and Gregorys Coffee tenure and recommended him to Gregory Zamfotis during Simon’s transition from Starbucks to Gregorys Coffee.
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Brian Hexem
Hospitality & Operations Leadership · Multi-Unit Operations · New Store Openings · Living Ascent
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