The process to create a capital plan begins with three questions: 1) Do you know how much capital your club requires to replace its existing assets? 2) Not including your ‘wish […]

Signs of distrust are everywhere, and private clubs abound with demands for greater transparency from club leaders as trust and trustworthiness are constantly being questioned. […]

  3 Keys to Effective Communications Year after year, private club members demand ever-greater transparency and expect their servant leaders to communicate more effectively. […]

Strategic planning has become important in most private clubs, riding the wave of membership growth across the U.S. Long a proven tool for the best-performing private clubs, […]

Neil Brown joins the firm as Executive Director, Governance & Strategy. Toronto, ON – GGA Partners, an international consulting firm and trusted advisor to many of the […]

Good beginnings create a sound future. A challenge in many private clubs is that every year is a “new beginning” as new board members are seated and outward-bound […]

No stranger to innovation, Bob Dylan recorded “Like a Rolling Stone” in early summer of 1965 causing Bruce Springsteen to say of the first time he heard it, “[it] sounded […]

Peter Drucker famously advised, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” And he was correct. In a private club “culture” is governance. Club leaders do well to place […]

2024 Club Leaders Perspective Report GGA Partners and the Club Management Association of America continue the annual Club Leaders Perspective research to understand the […]

Imagine how the architects who were commissioned to restore the Notre-Dame Cathedral to its original magnificence felt in 2021 when awarded the project and given an ambitious […]