World Class Speakers
The most distinguished leaders from the hospitality industry and beyond join us for expertly moderated discussions, offering invaluable insights into the strategies that drive success. Learn directly from those at the forefront of excellence, equipping yourself with the knowledge and tools to elevate your career, advance with confidence, and achieve more.
Targeted Workshops
Elevate your expertise as we dive deep into real-world challenges, opportunities, and solutions guided by our presenters' focused insights. These dynamic monthly discussions foster collaboration, ignite innovation, and empower you with the strategies needed to overcome obstacles and achieve greater success together.
A Network Like No Other
The Director’s Club is an exclusive community of industry leaders, dedicated to educating, inspiring, and shaping the future of success in the Racquets and Hospitality Industry. This exclusive network ignites powerful connections, fosters groundbreaking insights, and sets the stage for the next level of excellence!
Discussion Schedule
05/11/2026 / @7:00PM EST. - "The Next Chapter"
Featuring: Todd Harbour
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What happens when everything is working?
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The team is thriving. The culture is strong. Results are exceeding expectations. By every outward measure, you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be. And yet—there’s a quiet voice asking a difficult question: Is this still where I’m meant to be?
This talk explores one of the most complex and least discussed moments in leadership—the decision to move on when things are not broken, but exceptional.
Too often, leaders wait for dissatisfaction, burnout, or decline to justify change. But the most intentional leaders understand something different: growth doesn’t always come from fixing what’s wrong. Sometimes, it comes from having the awareness and courage to leave something great in pursuit of what’s next.
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Through an honest and reflective lens, this session walks through the emotional and strategic weight of that decision. We’ll revisit a period of meaningful success—what made it special, what made it work—and why, despite all of that, the next step became clear. You’ll hear what it actually feels like to wrestle with that choice: the gratitude, the doubt, the fear of the unknown, and the pull toward something more.
This isn’t about chasing change for the sake of change. It’s about recognizing when you’ve fulfilled your role, when your impact has reached its natural peak, and when staying might be more comfortable—but not more meaningful.
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We will walk away with a deeper understanding of how to evaluate their own season of leadership. You’ll gain perspective on how to balance loyalty with growth, success with self-awareness, and stability with the courage to evolve. Most importantly, you’ll begin to think differently about timing—not as a reaction to circumstances, but as a proactive, purposeful choice.
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Because the hardest moves in leadership aren’t always about fixing what’s broken.
Sometimes, they’re about honoring what’s been built… and still having the courage to turn the page.
06/22/2026 / @7:00PM EST. - "Reflections that shape us"
Featuring: Jack Gropple
What if you didn’t have to wait years or decades to gain the perspective?
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So much of what we call “wisdom” is often the result of time, mistakes, and hindsight. It’s earned through moments we didn’t see clearly until they were behind us. But what if perspective didn’t have to be something we stumble into later? What if it could be developed intentionally right now?
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In this thought-provoking and deeply reflective conversation, Dr. Jack Groppel brings a lifetime of experience working with elite performers, leaders, and organizations to explore one essential question: Is perspective a function of time, or a skill we can build today?
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Together, we’ll step back and examine the defining moments that shape a career and a life. Through stories, lessons learned, and honest reflection, this session invites you to consider what you might do differently if you had the clarity now that typically only comes with hindsight. What would you tell your younger self? What decisions would you approach differently? And perhaps more importantly, what’s stopping you from applying those insights today?
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This talk is not about regret. It’s about awareness.
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It’s about understanding how experiences both successes and failures form the lens through which we lead, decide, and grow. You’ll hear powerful insights on how high performers process challenges, extract meaning, and turn reflection into forward momentum. More importantly, you’ll learn how to create that same level of awareness without needing to “learn the hard way.”
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We will walk away with practical ways to accelerate their own growth: how to pause with intention, how to reflect with purpose, and how to seek perspective beyond their immediate experience. You’ll be challenged to rethink the belief that time alone creates wisdom and instead embrace the idea that perspective can be pursued, practiced, and strengthened starting today.
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Because the goal isn’t just to look back and understand your journey. It’s to use that understanding to shape who you become next without waiting for time to do the work for you.
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07/20/2026 / @7:00PM EST. - "The Value Conversation - Compensation, Growth & Leadership at Clubs"
Featuring Tony D' Errico
There are conversations happening every day throughout the club and hospitality industry that rarely get said out loud. Conversations about value. About leadership. About burnout. About compensation. About growth. About why some professionals continue to rise while others feel stuck despite years of dedication and success.
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For years, many leaders in clubs and hospitality have focused solely on delivering results, creating experiences, building teams, and doing whatever it takes to make operations successful. Yet one question continues to quietly sit in the background for so many professionals across the industry…are we truly valuing leadership the way we should?
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That is exactly why this discussion matters.
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Join us Monday, June 20th at 7pm EST. for Meeting 50, “The Value Conversation,” for an honest and timely conversation with Tony D'Errico as we dive into one of the most important discussions facing the industry today: how leadership, compensation, culture, and long-term success all connect.
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This is not meant to be a polished presentation or surface-level discussion. It is a real conversation that the industry needs to have. A conversation about how clubs can continue evolving, how professionals can position themselves for greater opportunities, and how leadership in hospitality has changed dramatically over the last several years.
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Tony brings decades of experience and perspective from working alongside some of the most respected clubs and hospitality organizations in the country. His understanding of club operations, leadership development, executive growth, and the business side of hospitality creates a perspective that is both practical and incredibly powerful.
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We will explore what success in clubs truly looks like today. Not just financially, but culturally and professionally. We will touch on why compensation conversations matter more than ever, why retaining and developing great people has become one of the industry’s greatest challenges, and why the future of hospitality leadership will require a completely different mindset than in years past.
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This discussion is going to resonate deeply because it speaks directly to the realities people are experiencing every day inside clubs across the country. Some conversations are simply worth listening to… and this is one!
