2026 Travel Weekly Magellan Awards · Education Program · Individual Travel Advisor

From Hustle and Grind to WAYfind and Align.

Your goals, real results in 90 days, powered by the way you travel.

Information. Implementation. Impact.

Inspired and Informed.

A Way Forward to Work On the Business, Not Just In It.

Every advisor comes home from an event, FAM, or trip inspired, informed, and ready to grow. Few come home with a clear way to actually put any of it to work. It's the classic trap: too busy working in the business to work on it. That's the real gap: not knowledge, but a plan built around where their business and their life actually are right now, since everyone is at a different place in both, not someone else's model.

Travel professionals already help clients plan and make the most of their two most precious resources, time and money, every time they book a trip. Kristi Huss built the way to help them do the same for themselves and their own business, so they get more of both

Let Travel Work for You

It's Kristi Huss's mission to let travel work for you. Not by working harder, but by using travel as a lifestyle in every part of life: the key to designing a success map that's actually yours, not somebody else's model to copy.

With over thirty years in the travel industry, building a career that has meant navigating the transitions life brings along the way, including a brief pause when her family doubled overnight with quadruplets. She built a successful travel agency through all of it, earning numerous awards for sales and customer service.

But even with that success, she found herself looking for a better way to keep achieving her goals, without the hustle and grind. She found it in High Performance Coaching. It made such a difference that she decided to become a coach herself, guiding others through the same internal exploration that leads to real, outer transformation.

Now she combines the science of high performance with the Travel Mindset, using the same mindset and behavior we bring to travel as the key not only to get to where we want to be in the world, but to where we want to be in life. Personally. Professionally.

WAYfind. Align. Arrive.

Her favorite place to do this work is in the industry she loves: helping travel professionals succeed and enjoy more of what they already love about travel.

  • Thirty years + as a travel advisor

  • Certified High Performance Coach

  • Creator of the Travel Mindset and the WAYfinding Method

  • TEDx Speaker

Science Meets Travel: The Research Behind the Method

The WAYfinding Method is powered by two of the most significant bodies of research on human potential, brought to life through travel.

The Travel Mindset

Carol Dweck's research identified the Fixed and Growth Mindsets central to the science of success and change.

Kristi Huss introduces a third: the Travel Mindset, the way people think and move when they travel

The High Performance Habits

Brendon Burchard's research, based on the largest study of high performers ever conducted, identifies the six habits that drive sustained success, not talent, applied through the travel lens by Kristi Huss, a Certified High Performance Coach, in workshops and navigational tools

The Map

The Map, built the same way great advisors plan trips: custom to each person.

The WAYfinding Method builds that map aligned to each individual's business and goals. This is where advisors stop waiting for the map and build their own.

This isn't travel used as an analogy. It's a methodology: a research-backed path, delivered in three ways that increase growth and results, a better ROI on any trip or event advisors and suppliers invest in. It's not one more thing added to an already busy schedule. It's aplying the knowledge and experience they already have, so they reach the next level of success and their goals, faster.

WAYfind and Align:

The Pathways to Increase ROI

Inspiration

A keynote that travels attendees through four pillars, Clarity, Confidence, Consistency, and Connection, teaching how travel is the key to success: the mindset and behavior we use when we travel, applied toward our own goals, in a way that aligns our personal and professional life with what we love about travel as a lifestyle.

Implementation

Eight hands-on workshop options, two per pillar, selected to align with an event, team, or organization's own goals and objectives, delivered where the destination itself becomes part of the experience, not just the backdrop. Attendees leave with the navigational tools to carry those goals forward: the place elevating the lesson, not just hosting it.

Integration

A 90-Day Aligned Advisor Cohort and individual coaching, guided by Kristi Huss through weekly forward progression, working through each habit toward the goal, and integrating more travel into life as you travel, work, and live. Mindset and habits applied in real time until they become the way you operate: a repeatable way to get to the next level.

Suppliers Win. Advisors Win. Travelers Win

The WINfluence Effect.

WINfluence is Kristi Huss's travel-rooted take on Develop Influence, one of the six High Performance habits, with a W added on purpose. It isn't built on sales incentives alone. It's built on purposeful progress:

Suppliers win because advisors gain the pathway and the courage to pursue bigger opportunities and think bigger than they have, with that supplier as a partner in the growth, not just a line item.

Advisors win because they have a way to implement it into their own business, whatever that looks like. Solopreneur, agency owner, large team, independent contractors, employees, travel advisor business models vary enormously, and the information and inspiration advisors typically gain doesn't account for how it's going to work with where their business actually is. The WAYfinding Method does, because the map is built around each person's actual business, not a generic one.

That's exactly what makes FAMs and events such an important part of a successful advisor's business: the connection they create. The WAYfinding Method simply takes it further. When paired with an event or FAM, it serves a dual-purpose: instead of going to a separate conference or program just to work on your goals, that work happens right inside travel you're already doing. That's another way ROI increases for both the supplier and the advisor at the same time, from the same trip.

And travelers win too: they get to experience and benefit more fully from what the supplier and destination actually offer. The growth isn't only in sales. It's in the reach of what clients get to experience.

Here are some of the stories, from advisors, suppliers, and event organizers, who have experienced that win firsthand.

Watch: A Supplier's Perspective

Angela Bechtold

Director of Sales, Strategic Accounts, Pleasant Holidays and Evoke Inspire

Connie Miller, CTIE

Chief Relationship Officer, Business Development

Kristi was a standout addition to our agenda-packed 2026 MVT Live conference. She brought energy, insight, and immediate impact to our opening session, setting the tone for the entire event. Even more impressive, her optional early morning sessions were filled to capacity over the following two days.

Her content was timely, relatable, and highly impactful, resonating strongly with our audience of professional Travel Advisors. As a travel agency host, finding a speaker who genuinely understands the unique challenges and opportunities within our industry is essential, and Kristi exceeded every expectation.

Andrea Wright

Vice President, Leisure, Luxury and Lifestyle Sales, Travel Industry

Kristi was our keynote speaker at our Opulence Symposium in April 2026. Her energy and passion for the travel industry was contagious. Since Kristi has years of experience as an agency owner, she really connected with the advisors.

Her session had action items that were relevant in the advisors’ everyday life. It was thought provoking and inspirational. I highly recommend Kristi to bring excitement and enthusiasm to your next event. Her genuine, kind personality makes her an amazing speaker.

"Guidance on navigating myself and my business to not just the next level, but to smoother experiences."

—Sandra Petrousta, Travel Journeys with Sandra

"Upgrading my identity and choosing what goes in the bag for my future."

—Donna Myers, Getaway with Donna

"Goal setting. Navigating to signature."
— Lillian Dikovitsky

"Finding my way. 1% better every day."
— Jenipher Smith, Fulfilling Dreams Travel

© 2026 Kristi Huss. All rights reserved. The WAYfinding Method and the Travel Mindset are original frameworks created by Kristi Huss, built on the science of High Performance (Brendon Burchard) and mindset research (Carol Dweck). WAYfinding Method™ and Travel Mindset™,

Habit formation research shows new behaviors take an average of 66 days to become automatic (Lally et al., University College London, 2010).