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
11/09/2026 / @7:00PM EST. - "Betting on Yourself!"
Featuring Amy Pazahanick
There comes a point in every entrepreneur’s journey when the path forward requires more than a good idea. It requires belief. Belief in the vision, belief in the work, and most importantly, belief in yourself when there is no guarantee that it will work.
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In this discussion with Amy Pazahanick, we will explore what it truly meant to bet on herself and build a successful business from the ground up. We will talk about the moments when taking the safe route would have been easier, but choosing the uncertain path ultimately became the foundation for something much bigger.
We will go back to the early days of Amy’s journey and the decisions that shaped the direction of her career. We will talk about what she was willing to sacrifice to pursue the vision she believed in, the personal and professional risks that came with building a business, and the periods when the outcome was far from certain.
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We will explore the reality of entrepreneurship before the success, the long days, difficult decisions, financial pressures, setbacks, doubt, and moments when there was no immediate validation that the sacrifices would eventually pay off. We will talk about how Amy navigated those moments and continued moving forward when the easier decision might have been to stop, change direction, or choose stability.
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The conversation will also examine the evolution that happens when you are responsible for building something of your own. The lessons that only come through experience. The mistakes that become turning points. The people who played a role along the way. And the moments when Amy had to make decisions without knowing whether they would ultimately lead to success.
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At the center of the conversation is the idea of betting on yourself, not as a single decision, but as a series of decisions made over time. The willingness to put your reputation, time, resources, energy, and belief behind something before you know exactly where it will lead.
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We will talk about what Amy believed in when others may not have seen it yet, what she had to give up to create the business she envisioned, and how those sacrifices ultimately shaped the company and leader she became.
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This is the story behind the success, the risk before the reward, the sacrifice before the recognition, and the belief that made it possible to keep going.
12/24/2026 / @7:00PM EST. - "The Cost of Success: Sacrifice, Family, Failure, Success and the life of Liezel Huber."
Featuring Liezel Huber.
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What does it really cost to become one of the best in the world?
A five-time Grand Slam champion, former world No. 1 doubles player, Olympian, mother, and now a successful Director of Racquets, Liezel has lived more versions of success than most people ever will. But behind the trophies, rankings and championships is a story that is far more complicated and far more human.
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In this discussion, Liezel takes us beyond the resume and into the reality of what it takes to reach the highest levels of professional sport. The years of sacrifice. The relentless travel. The pressure to perform. The failures that nobody remembers. The relationships that require compromise. The moments when she questioned whether the pursuit was worth it. And the extraordinary resilience required to keep going when success was anything but guaranteed.
We will talk about what she gave up becoming a champion and what she gained along the way.
We will talk about family and motherhood, and the challenge of building a family while living a life that demands constant travel, competition and commitment. We will explore the tension between ambition and presence, and what it means to pursue greatness while also trying to be the person your family needs you to be.
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And then there is what came next.
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For Liezel, retirement from professional tennis was not the end of her competitive journey. It became the beginning of another one. Today, as a Director of Racquets, she leads people, builds programs, develops culture and creates experiences for members, an entirely different form of leadership requiring an entirely different definition of success.
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What does a Grand Slam champion learn when she goes from competing on the biggest stages in the world to leading a club? What lessons from professional tennis translate? What doesn't? And what happens when the scoreboard disappears and success is measured by the people you develop, the culture you create and the lives you impact?
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This is not a conversation about winning. It is a conversation about everything that comes before it, everything it costs, and what happens after you finally achieve the thing you spent your life chasing. Because behind every extraordinary success is a story of sacrifice and Liezel Huber has an extraordinary story to tell.
1/25/2026 / @7:00PM EST. - "The Myth of More w/ Mark Kovacs!"
Featuring Mark Kovacs.
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We live in a culture that celebrates more.
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More hours. More meetings. More training. More goals. More responsibility. More growth. More money time!
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We often equate exhaustion with commitment and busyness with productivity. We assume that the people who achieve the most must simply be willing to work harder than everyone else. But what if that isn't actually how greatness works?
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In this discussion with legendary performance expert Mark Kovacs, we will challenge one of the most deeply ingrained beliefs in high performance: that more is always better.
Mark has spent his career studying what allows people to perform at the highest levels, and one of the most important lessons from elite performance is that improvement doesn't come simply from doing more. It comes from understanding when to push, when to recover, what to prioritize and what to eliminate.
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That idea extends far beyond athletics.
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We will explore what the science of performance can teach us about leadership, careers, relationships, parenting and life itself. How do you know when you're pushing yourself toward growth and when you're simply running yourself into the ground? How do the best leaders create cultures where people perform at a high level without burning out? And how do you build a life that allows you to remain successful for decades rather than simply survive the next year?
The conversation will challenge the idea that being constantly busy means being effective. We will talk about recovery not as weakness, but as a performance strategy. About focus and the courage to say no. About creating margin in a life that increasingly demands our attention. About knowing when intensity is necessary and when restraint is actually the more difficult and more intelligent choice.
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We will go deeper! How do you get the most out of people without getting too much from them? How do you recognize when a high performer needs more challenge versus more space? How do you create an environment where people can sustain excellence rather than constantly chase it?
This is not a conversation about doing less. It is about doing what matters more. It is a conversation about performance, leadership, ambition, health, relationships and the choices we make every day and whether the way we are pursuing success is actually allowing us to enjoy the success we are working so hard to achieve.