Driven by the belief that the physical place and human connection shapes and enriches people’s lives, Jessica Werner approaches projects with artistry and strategy and transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Werner launched and leads Sage Hospitality Group’s Sage Studio and their work: Building brands, developing emotionally focused, experiential spaces, creating financially successful and sustainable businesses, and fostering communities with substance, culture, and discovery across adaptive reuse, renovation and repositioning, and ground-up projects.

At Sage, Werner has led more than 50 mixed-use, hotel, restaurant, and bar projects, leveraging her deep design, construction and development, brand creation and activation, and partnership and opening expertise she has garnered throughout her career.

Eternally curious and an artist at heart, Werner is a lover of poetry, good design, The New York Times crossword, and the beauty of experiencing life with family and friends. She resides in Denver with her two young daughters.