Sean Hoess

Sean Hoess (pronounced “Hess”) is the founder and CEO of Eudēmonia, the world’s leading consumer health summit. Founded in West Palm Beach in 2024, Eudēmonia has seen explosive growth in its first two years. The 2025 summit attracted 5,000 participants, 170 exhibiting brands, and offered more than 300 talks from more than 160 leaders on the frontiers of physical health, mental well-being, and longevity. The event will return for its third year on November 5–8, 2026.Prior to founding Eudēmonia, Hoess was the co-founder and CEO of the world’s first mass-participation wellness gathering, Wanderlust Festival.

Wanderlust combined world-class yoga and meditation instruction with outdoor activities, lectures, music and the arts. From its 2009 launch in California, Wanderlust grew to 65 annual festivals in over 20 countries, with annual attendance of 80,000+ wellness seekers and more than $20m in annual revenue.Hoess received his JD, Master’s degree and BA from Columbia University. After 31+ years in New York City, the pandemic catalyzed an unexpected move to the woods of New Hampshire, where Hoess now resides with his wife Karina (Eudēmonia’s VP of Programming), their two children, and a pet sausage dog, Otto.