Douglas Drummond

Douglas Drummond is a hospitality and wellbeing strategist, somatic facilitator, and founder of Weaving Waters. With more than 25 years of international experience across hospitality, retreat centers, wellness, and human-centered experience design, his work explores how places, organizations, and communities can gather with greater purpose, responsibility, and care.

Douglas has held regional leadership and director-level roles with some of the world’s most respected hospitality and retreat brands, including Soho House, Aman Resorts, and the Esalen Institute. His career has focused on creating meaningful experiences that honor people, place, culture, and the natural world, while supporting organizations to develop commercially grounded and deeply human approaches to hospitality and wellbeing.

Through Weaving Waters, Douglas brings together strategy, facilitation, cultural engagement, and embodied practice to support leaders, teams, and organizations navigating growth, transition, reconciliation, and change. His work includes wellness and retreat strategy, leadership facilitation, Indigenous engagement, cultural sensitivity frameworks, and the design of transformative gathering experiences.

Originally from Aotearoa, New Zealand, Douglas works between New Zealand and the United States. He holds a degree from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher. He is committed to supporting more respectful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, and to helping create places and experiences that strengthen belonging, wellbeing, and shared responsibility.