
Wellness Business Developer
Wellness is a Wishful Business

Wellness Business Developer
Enabling the Viability for Your Wellness Concept
Wellness is a wishful business. People genuinely want to feel better, yet their desire for well-being rarely translates into active lifestyle changes.
The real business challenge is converting a positive image into a fully booked calendar. A colorful plant-based café remains a cost center until it serves repeating customers.
When launching Blue Lotus Hua Hin, I quickly realized that developing the business was the only way to turn the dream into a viable reality. Attracting students, pro or health-conscious individuals, was essential to sustain the project. It was the only way to justify state-of-the-art learning kitchens in a garden resort on the Gulf of Siam and support an international education team.
Every resort in Hua Hin had an infinity pool and a spa; only one had a world-class plant-based learning center.
Once thriving, Blue Lotus ensured its sustainability and transformed the Evason Hua Hin ecosystem by attracting an entirely new segment of guests, generating week-long stays, boosting occupancy during the low season and capturing new audiences simply by sharing our students' journeys.

WHAT I DO
TO ENABLE YOUR WELLNESS VISION
• Evaluating your Uniqueness: Analysing your positioning, immersing in your concept, looking for untapped opportunities. Mapping out unexploited market segments.
• Market Development: Opening up to new market segments. Activating lead generation, converting fans into customers.
• Strategic Alliances & Partnerships: Identifying and securing partnerships and alliances to consolidate and amplify your reach.
• Overcoming the "Wishful" Friction: Evaluating your current efforts to simplify and align your offerings with customer demand.
• Agile Operational Alignment: Calibrating your pricing structures, service quality and team capabilities.
Tactical Partnership: Monthly Retainer + Agile Incentive to ensure alignment, speed and mutual commitment.

Wellness Project Developer
Shaping Your Wellness Concept
I partner with business owners, hospitality groups and lifestyle brands to evaluate opportunities, design wellness experiences and navigate critical turning points:
• Early Sprints & Opportunity Studies: Benchmarking and operational feasibility analysis for early-stage development.
• Wellness & Hospitality Co-Development: Auditing offerings and designing boutique concepts, community spaces and plant-based or F&B wellness programs.
• Human & Agile: Building adaptive, aligned execution plans.

Everyone has a Plan till a Volcano shows up.
Commitment of MEANS NOT Outcomes
Having experienced bubble crashes, market shifts, a worldwide pandemic and a volcano eruption at my doorstep, I am grounded in chaotic reality.
Having launched Yi Athens in the middle of the Greek economic crisis and developed Blue Lotus Hua Hin out of Pak Nam Pran, an isolated fisherman village, somewhere along the Golfe of Siam, I am used to operate within real-life constraints, unpredictable events and limited resources.
I work around limitations, transforming constraints into operational advantages. I am developing solutions based on your situation, constraints and resources.
No false promises: I have no control on your localisation, guest desirability, future market’s shifts or internal corporate complexities, so I will never promise success or guaranteed outcomes.
My Commitment of Means: I only guarantee what I am directly in control of. My undivided focus, my pragmatic adaptability, my neutrality and willingness to get things done in time.
I am naively honest, I will help through tough decisions and tell you if and when it is time to pivot or to pull the plug on a concept that could drain your capital, time and energy.
Wellness & Plant-Based Projects
Opportunity Study, Co-Development, Consulting & Team Training

Wellness Consulting Chef & PM
for Cruise Lines, Resorts and Boutique Hotels
Helping my Clients to develop Wellness Experiences and plant-based offerings by co-development, improvement of the sourcing of vegan ingredients, adjustments of F&B pricing and trainings.
- Opportunity Study: Preliminary study, Evaluating opportunities and timing, Pre-launch Development phase
- On-Site Audits: Evaluate wellness experiences, plant-based offerings, guests journey, experiences and overall satisfaction.
- Menu Consulting: Elevate plant-based menus, wellness experiences and juice bars and healthy corners
- Project Co-Development: Create smoothie/Juice bars, plant-based and well-eating workshops, wellness experiences.
- Team Training: Empower staff with an understanding of plant-based cuisine, simple vegan nutrition and allergen management.

Co-Development of Plant-Based Projects
Preliminary Study, Consulting and Co-Development
Juice - Smoothie Bars / Acaï - Power Bowls: MSC Explora: Nectar Juicery, Tom Juice Bar in St Barth, Yi Athens, Oceania cruises.
Healthy Corner / Breakfast Buffet: Evason Hua Hin, Blue Lotus, MSC Explora: Emporium Market
Plant-Based Cuisine Cooking Classes: Blue Lotus Hua Hin, MSC Explora Chef's Kitchen, Biophily Haarlem
Plant-Based Cooking School & Chef Training: Blue Lotus Hua Hin, PC Studio Café, Apollo Group
Wellness Retreats: Azulfit Yoga Pilates Retreat Center, Blue Lotus
Vegan Grocery & Community Center: EKM6 BKK, Plenti Grocer
Plant-Based Menus in Restaurants: Yi Athens, Evason Hua Hin: Kieng Sha, Bar, the Coast, MSC Explora: Sakura, Fil Rouge, Emporium
Plant-Based Cooking Books: les éditions La Plage, En Exergue.

Christophe Berg @kristofberg
Turning Ideas into Wellness Projects & Experiences.
- Wellness Project Developer & Business Developer
- Wellness Consulting Chef & Educator in Plant-Based Cuisine
- Events, Retreats and Experiences Organizer
My background: 30 years of profesionnal experience as a independent consultant. Master of Science degree in Project Management (La Rochelle university). Plant-based Cuisine Cookbook Author. 20+ years of Trail-Running & Plant-Based Eating.
Book a free 30-min Project Brief
Let's clarify your next move and see how I can help.

30-minute Project Briefing Call with Chris
Google Meets, WhatsAppBrief me on your current project, operational frictions, and timeline. Using Google Meet or WhatsApp. Languages: French, English or Spanish. Pick a time that works for you. I am based in La Palma, Canary Islands, on GMT / London time.Select date and time
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(C) Christophe Berg • Wellness Project Developer & Business Developer | Wellness Consulting Chef • 2026








