Angus Collins - From Records to Recovery: The Importance of Building the Right Team

Angus is an ultra-endurance athlete and founder of Beyond Endurance, renowned for rowing the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans (twice), setting world records each time. Despite his achievements, he battled severe mental health issues and attempted suicide on his 30th birthday. After recovery, Angus became a Positive Psychology Coach in 2022, using his experiences to aid men with mental health struggles. He now travels globally as a public speaker, advocating for the removal of stigma surrounding men’s mental health.
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2024 Welcome Conference
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
September 16th, 2024
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We founded the Welcome Conference in 2014 to create a space where dining room professionals could share ideas, inspire one another, and connect to form a community. By our third year, seats were filled with people from every major industry, who believed that what they could learn from leaders in our industry could supercharge how they ran theirs.

In the ten years since, the Welcome Conference has evolved into America’s preeminent hospitality symposium. We’ve welcomed over 100 speakers, from Fortune 500 CEOs to FBI hostage negotiators, from musicians to magicians — and, of course, some of the most celebrated restauranteurs in the world.

Our attendees believe, as we do, that hospitality is a craft that can be honed, a muscle that can be strengthened — that how they serve their clients is as valuable as what they serve. They believe in caring as much for the people they work with and serve as they do about the products they make. They believe every one of us can choose to be in the hospitality industry, no matter what we do — and that you don’t have to be a luxury business to do it.

Once a year, we gather in New York for an immersive, engaging, and provocative day-long program. We exchange stories and challenges and ideas, and we leave with our gas tanks full.