The Avant Life | Consulting Agency
Our world is changing fast. From globalization and advancements in automation, to the ongoing impact of the covid-19 pandemic, businesses today face a number of new challenges. Our service industries in particular have witnessed crippling difficulties in retaining top talent, and in keeping pace with seismic shifts toward personalized service experiences. To ensure long-term success in this market, businesses will need to direct their attention towards employee development and maintaining a strong organizational culture.
The Avant Life Consulting Agency is a sole proprietorship that specializes in implementing best practices of cultural development and professional etiquette into practical business standards. I offer clients consultation, coaching, and a measure to optimize talent through custom training programs supported by a Predictive Index model.
The mission for this consultancy is to work in partnership with clients, maximizing return on investment by designing programs specific to their needs. My approach to training is comfortable and practical. I recognize that lasting change can only come about gradually and through practice. Increment by increment. To support continued development, I offer clients scheduled follow-ups, post-implementation assessment, and access to an online learning platform.
I invite you to explore some of the programs offered and to schedule a consultation to see how we can partner to advance your organizational goals.
Alex Latorre, Program Consultant
Program Foundations
Service & Hospitality
A hands-on approach to service etiquette. Clients are able to customize programs designed to optimize the guest experience and standardize excellence. I work with small business development to established global luxury brands.
Organizational Culture
A blueprint for high performance culture. From establishing best practices in hiring, on-boarding, and training, I offer my clients a people-first approach to employee development supported by Predictive Index to meet their organizational goals.
Professional Networking
Comprehensive programs that deliver insight into modern practices of professional conduct and poise. The programs offered are focused on the development of personal branding, executive presence, and corporate communication.
Process
Dynamic Consultation
A true consultant experience. My priority is establishing trust with my clients, through intellectual understanding and fully exploring underlying issues. I offer a strong degree of useful content, process, and feedback focused on recommendations specific to your project.
Initial consultation is free of charge, detailing conceptual agreement, measures of success, and determining mutual value to maximize your return on investment.
Custom Development Programs
A comprehensive and customizable set of programs focused on best practices in service, business etiquette, and organizational culture. Each program includes skills training, behavioral tools, and messaging designed for the individual audience to support engagement.
Clients have the option to choose from a menu of subject matter and proprietary programs to meet their project needs. Web-based options are available for remote teams.
Post-Implementation Support
An incremental, long-term approach to development. To safegaurd lasting change each project is supported by custom presentational documents and access to online learning portals. Each stakeholder receiving personal assessment and follow-up action plan.
As a client partner I take on the responsibility updating online training modules, skills testing, and innovative talent optimization exercises using a Predictive Index model.
Alex Latorre, Program Consultant
After earning his bachelors degree in Business Management at the University of Central Florida, Alex begun his journey in hospitality in 2002 by opening Season’s 52 Orlando, at the time, a new Darden Restaurant concept. Within the next five years, he would go on to receive his certification through the Court of Master Sommeliers, while opening over a dozen additional expansion restaurants throughout the U.S. as a certified trainer.
By 2007 Alex transitioned into working with independent restauranteurs to develop two high-profile restaurant concepts in the Tampa and Orlando metro areas. Over the next ten years he found success as a restaurant manager and sommelier, with his restaurants winning multiple accolades, including Wine Spectator, for elevated wine program. During that time Alex also found his love for live jazz, and his niche in bringing it back into the local fine dining scene. Good times were had.
In 2016 Alex took on the managing role of The Four Seasons Resorts Orlando’s flagship restaurant, where two years later it was one of the first in the state of Florida to be awarded a Michelin Star. Starting in 2022, Alex privately took on his first consultancy and long-term client partnership with a luxury residential resort project valued at over $200 million.
Today, servicing a handful of private clients, Alex has chosen to expand his consulting practice and further develop programs focused on advancing the customer and employee experience. While servicing clients, Alex continues to learn about his field, returning to the University of Central Florida Marketing department to help drive graduate behavioral research study programs related to customer experience. Alex is also is certified in project management and Predictive Index, remaining active in its community aimed at talent optimization.
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