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TAG Galyean, AIA, is an award-winning resort design consultant who brings more than 30 years of architectural, landscape and interior design expertise to the leading, independent luxury resorts in the U.S. TAG is the founder and master design conceptualist of The TAG Studio in West Virginia, a group of resort design specialists nationwide who collaborate in defining the needs for each resort's environment, establish long-term planning and design concepts, and participate in all design decisions. Galyean is known for combining innovative and visionary design principles with a comprehensive understanding of the hotel industry.
 TAG provided the signature spa designs for The Lodge at Pebble Beach, The Greenbrier Hotel, Turnberry Isle Resort, THE HOTEL HERSHEY, LaQuinta Resort and Club, and The Broadmoor Hotel. He is well known for The Broadmoor's 100,000 square-foot golf and tennis clubhouse which included design of an indoor pool, fitness center and luxury spa. His work expanded to include the master planning of the complete Broadmoor resort campus and he has been the Broadmoor's exclusive master designer since 1993.
Galyean is the master designer of the Don CeSar Beach Resort covering refurbishment of existing public and guest areas and he is retained by the Don CeSar to oversee all design issues. TAG is also the master designer for all HERSHEY Resort and Golf properties and is responsible for the design of their famous chocolate spa treatments. In 2002, the Greenbrier opened a home furnishings retail store and resort residential design studio called TAG Studio Interiors/The Greenbrier.
Most recently, TAG has expanded his work to include the Belle Meade Country Club in Nashville, the Thibiant Spa in Beverly Hills and The Sagamore Spa in Bolton Landing, New York.
TAG is also the creator of the SilverTAG Shower, a $100,000 computer-controlled shower that is created to fit the user's body shape, featuring up to 30 shower frequencies and 18 showerheads in six zones.
TAG Galyean received NCARB certification in 1971. He attended Stanford University and the Pratt Institute and received a bachelor of architecture degree with honors, with graduate coursework at New York University's Real Estate Institute. He has served as Governor of Cranbrook Schools, thesis advisor at MIT, Resort Master Plan speaker for the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 1996, guest lecturer at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, and has served as a judge for the Gold Key Awards. TAG was also the 1998 Platinum Circle Award recipient.
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Whitney M. Fisher is the Principal and Owner of The W Group, a Nashville-based interior design firm specializing in upscale hospitality design. With over 19 years of extensive experience in every facet of the design field, Whitney has acquired multiple awards over the life of her career. These awards include (but are not limited to) the Lodging Hospitality 2002 Design Award, ASID Silver Award, and two IIDA Gold Awards. Publications include Lodging Hospitality, Contract Magazine, Traditional Building and Healthcare Facilities, and Spa Finder (“Best Design for a Spa” 2005). She has participated in several review committees developing new introductions for furniture and fabric design. Her belief is that “good design creates good experiences.”
Notable projects include Opryland Hotel, The Broadmoor Resort Hotel, Spa, Country Club and Junior Ballroom, The Clubhouse at HERSHEY Country Club, Fairvue Plantation Country Club, the Historic HOTEL HERSHEY, HERSHEY LODGE suites, Confection Hall, The Hershey Grill, and various projects with Intercontinental Hotel Group.
The W Group’s hospitality expertise includes retail, restaurant, country club, hotel, and spa design. Creating close personable relationships with the client and consultants is vital in how the firm is able to achieve the desired visions of the client while fulfilling the functional needs of the interior environment. Extensive project involvement includes services that range from programming to construction documentation. Services can even include creating and implementing custom one-of-a-kind items such as furnishings, rugs, carpet, lighting and fabrics to give the project a unique and distinct character.
The firm's professional and technical personnel are committed to providing quality interior design responsive to the client's vision with a conscientious approach that provides attention to the client's financial and functional needs. The W Group’s innovative and creative design abilities result in a comprehensive, outstanding project.
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For over 35 years, Nashville-based ESa, Earl Swenson, Assoc., Inc. who has specialized in architecture, interior architecture, master planning and space planning, has been involved in the research and design of hospitality facilities across the country. From master planning and site selection  of hotels and convention centers, restaurants and spas, to space planning and furniture design, the firm's experience covers all aspects of the design process. Careful attention is paid to building placement, materials and character. Each project design properly integrates flexibility, growth, and expansion. Other specialty needs such as lighting, acoustics, mechanical systems and security are placed high on the design priority list and evaluated throughout the duration of the job. This attention to detail has resulted in national and international media attention and awards for design.
ESa believes that design is about creating environments and that architecture is a "wellness" profession, not a "shelter" profession. Combining innovation with human-centered design, ESa creates aesthetic, functional environments that respond to the needs and imagery of the individual client. As a result, Ron Lustig, AIA, ISHC, principal design architect, designed The Spa At THE HOTEL HERSHEY to replicate High Point mansion, the estate home of Milton and Catherine Hershey, complete with stained glass windows, marble landings, hardwood floors, pecan paneling and arched palladian windows.
Other projects have included designing the master plan of the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs that
includes convention/meeting room space, hotel rooms, spa, and golf and tennis complex; and all four phases of Opryland Hotel encompassing everything from guest rooms and meeting space to themed retail, restaurants, and entertainment.
The Wildhorse Saloon is yet another outstanding example of the firm's ability to coordinate within one facility, dining, production, broadcasting, entertainment and retail activities.
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Monica Tuma Brown has been actively developing and working in the health and spa industries for the past 28 years. Her work as an EEG technician, in hospitals both in the U.S. and abroad, specialized in ICU, ER, Neonatal and Neurology.
Brown's interest in the spa industry began in Switzerland while employed at the Kinderspital (an international children's hospital) in Zurich. While in Europe, she conducted extensive independent spa research. Upon returning to the U.S., Brown studied international relations and molecular, cellular biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Brown continued to study the application of Naturopathic health care while working in several hospital facilities.
In 1983, she became Manager of the Thalassotherapy Department at the Coralita Beach Spa Hospital in St. Martin, French West Indies. From there, Brown co-directed the Spa at Rosario Island Resort and Spa in Eastsound, Washington.
Brown then went on to develop and direct the Greenbrier Spa Mineral Baths and Salon, having coordinated all aspects of the 1987 opening of the new spa in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
Her management and operational expertise broadened in the position of General Manager of The Marsh, a center and spa for balance and fitness in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Brown is a noted expert on mineral springs and water, and is known for her creative solutions to operations and program development, as well as unique treatment and product developments. She is also noted for her design, development, and operations consulting on a number of premier American five-star and diamond resorts, as well as integrative consulting with hospitals, wellness centers, and surgery centers. Additionally, Brown works with spa product manufacturers developing new treatments and products for use in the health spa industry.
Brown now turns her attention to sharing her health and spa industry knowledge as a Spa and Integrative Care Development Consultant.
Brown has worked with world-acclaimed spa designer TAG Galyean on a number of spas and resorts, including The Lodge at Pebble Beach, Monterey, California; Kingsmill Resort, Williamsburg, Virginia; The Don CeSar Hotel, St. Petersburg, Florida; The Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado; The Aspen Club, Aspen, Colorado, and La Quinta Resort, Palm Springs, California.
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