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Gather Global Podcast#15 - Jojo Regan & Nicole Wheatley: Collaborations, brand building, NFTs in golfA massive thank you to those of you that joined us for our recent Mentor Room: LIVE! as we welcomed Nicole Wheatley and Jojo Regan, two Gather members who are at the forefront of brand positioning. Both are passionately helping drive a new image for the game to new audiences. Listen out for key insights on:Investing in branding/marketing/PR - the key decisions and opportunities for more golf businesses to consider.How we can speak as an industry to the non-traditional golf audiences?The "unknown" golf market. How do you...2022-04-151h 04
Gather Global PodcastGATHER: What's Next? #2 with Dan Green“Golf needs to have the strength of will of character to look beyond the walls of its own self-worth.” Dan Green, Design Director at Zag.Are you in the mood for some Truth Bombs?Then this is the 15min audio for you.1. What’s next for branding in golf?2. Who does Dan seek inspiration from within branding in the sports world?3. What’s Dan’s advice moving forward for golf brands to break through with Gen Z?4. If anyone listening wanted to do an audit on their golf industry b...2022-01-1417 min
Gather Global Podcast#14 - Karen Lunn: What if golf, was just golf?What if golf, was just golf?Not amateur and professional, with so many fragmented organisations. Not with organisations for men and women separately competing for the same commercial sponsors and media outlets?“We HAVE to look at golf differently now”This week, we are incredibly excited to share with you our first ever Women's British Open Champion as a Gather Guest, who has some fascinating insights to share from how Australia are challenging the previous norms.Transitioning from elite tour professional to senior leadership within the golf indus...2021-10-081h 07
Gather Global PodcastGATHER: What’s Next? #1 with Amir MalikIn this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Amir Malik.Amir founded The Muslim Golf Association (MGA) in the UK in 2020 which is the worlds first dedicated golfing platform that caters for the modern, professional, Muslim male & female golfer.Check out their website, but also connect with Amir. There could be great collaboration opportunities for you, but without doubt there will be inspiration and some fascinating insights that can help you, your golf club, organisation or business.Welcome to Gather – What’s Next?2021-08-2724 min
Gather Global Podcast#13 - Chris Hedderman: How the best disruption happens.If you are starting your first role, or you're a senior leader in golf, there’s critical insights and learnings in this new episode. They come from someone who has gathered varied experiences and skills, put their hand up and asked for more help to learn and now see themselves in an influential role at a global brand at the age of 35. But still learning and staying humble.Chris Hedderman has worked as an Assistant Professional at a local municipal course, re-gripping clubs in minus temperatures in the cold of winter. He’s worked at one of t...2021-08-161h 26
Gather Global Podcast#12 - Sam Roach: Culture, fashion, music, influencers and OPPORTUNITY.Mind. Blown. That was how we felt after our shortest Gather Global Podcast yet. The reason why? Possibly because we were speaking with an 'outsider' who by his own admission: "...has been stalking the golf industry for a while, from the outside..." Possibly because it was the biggest mirror we've had held up to our golf industry faces since Gather launched. This chat is not only about golf. It's about culture, fashion, influencers and OPPORTUNITY. If you want...2021-07-0938 min
Gather Global Podcast#11 - Andrew Brown: Partnership Working 2.0PARTNERSHIP WORKING 2.0With vast experience working with partners globally spanning over 20 years, the approach to partnerships continues to evolve for Andy Brown. However, what's next for this space and will we see disruption? Here's some of the stuff we dig into in this chat, which offers lots of food for thought if you work with partners in your role or want to learn more in this area:Golf used to be a lot of handshakes, whereas now communication barriers have been broken down and behaviours have changed. When we...2021-06-0449 min
Gather Global Podcast#10 - Kari Haug: Re-thinking our approach to short golf coursesOur chat with golf course architect Kari Haug really made us reflect on our own assumptions about short golf courses, their objectives, how they are assumed to be the solution to increasing women's and children's participation and crucially....why this might not always be the case!If you care about the growth of the game, or if you are a golf club or facility manager, you should find this to be a fascinating discussion with some questions to consider going forward in your career in the industry. Gather member and research expert Sue Sha...2021-04-161h 08
Gather Global PodcastGather Ripple #3: Fred Popp interviews Emma TaylorYou know those times when you wish you could hear the chats between the industry leaders on topics that really matter? Gather now offers you that fly on the wall experience with our Gather Ripple Series. Fred Popp (Zag) and Emma Taylor (former Head of Marketing, Tottenham Hotspur) talk about creating environments and communities for sports fans. Emma’s amazing time at Tottenham Hotspur saw the club grow exponentially and recently culminated in the opening of a stunning, world-class stadium. She played a lead role in developing the brand experience for...2021-04-0219 min
Gather Global Podcast#9 - Ray Roessel: Golf development can be commercialGolf development is not commercially attractive...or is it? The phrase golf development conjures split emotions. On one hand we all share the passion to grow the game, but, on the other, we know the rewards will not likely be immediately monetary. It often takes a back seat, becoming a philanthropic afterthought, as the commercial model doesn't seem to stack upAs we move forwards, golf development may become a casualty of the 'golf boom', as facilities understandably feel compelled to make hay while the sun shines. One casualty may be the Get into Go...2021-03-121h 02
Gather Global PodcastGather Ripple #2: Phil Grice interviews Fred PoppYou know those times when you wish you could hear the chats between the industry leaders on topics that really matter? Gather now offers you that fly on the wall experience with our Gather Ripple Series. In our second episode, Phil Grice (Independent Consultant) continues the ripple by interviewing international sports branding expert Fred Popp (Partner, ZAG). Fred has worked with a list of stellar clients in his career, including The Open, the NBA, Tottenham Hotspur and the FIFA World Cup.Explore this fascinating conversation with insights packed into just 15 minutes:...2021-02-2615 min
Gather Global PodcastGather Ripple #1: Jeremy Slessor interviews Phil GriceYou know those times when you wish you could hear the chats between the industry leaders on topics that really matter? Well, we’re delighted to now offer you that fly on the wall experience as we launch the first in our Gather Ripple Series. Jeremy Slessor (Managing Director, European Golf Design) wanted to ask some direct, no nonsense questions to a leading expert in the world of club management. So we recorded his Gather Ripple chat with the experienced Phil Grice (Independent Consultant). “Are golf clubs well positioned or not to...2021-02-2612 min
Gather Global Podcast#8 - Andrew Rankin: "Who owns golf?"Join us for this intellectual chat with Andrew who has had a foot in both camps of academia and the golf industry for many years. With a career and projects that span various areas of the golf industry, he’s uniquely positioned to delve into some questions we have been itching to ask.You know those ones that you feel should be raised, but nobody really knows where to start with them? Yeah….those ones.Open your mind and check this one out, we delved into: “Who owns golf?” and how d...2021-02-1239 min
Gather Global Podcast#7 - Tim Neil: "Disrupt the hell out of it"This one is a bumper one folks! Packed full of insights, experiences and advice that many people are unlikely to have heard from the golf culture and the business of golf in the Far East.As seems to happen on every episode, we feel like we’re going back to school and just learning constantly. The key word for this episode is OPPORTUNITY and if you listen in, you will just hear an awful lot of it! Key takeaways include:The benefits of the culture-mixing in the M...2021-01-2958 min
Gather Global Podcast#6: Andrew Turner from Arccos GolfStarting in banking, leaving to start up a real estate private equity development fund, training to become a golf professional, summers interning in the US and now currently the Vice President of Sales for Arccos Golf. It’s been a diverse journey, which sees Andrew now working at a really interesting case study of a successful start-up in golf. This episode was a little bit like going back to school for us…. We learned A LOT. Listen out for:Why is nobody tracking the biggest percentage of golfers in the UK...2021-01-1444 min
Gather Global Podcast#5: Gather Founders ReflectColin Bell, Adam Keable and Mike Hyde look back at the first two months of Gather. We report our top five learnings from our members, and some thoughts of our own on the journey we're on the journey we are on with you all, to try and build a better golf industry.We discuss:The geographical spread and vocational breadth of the Gather communityThe similarity of the challenges our members face, regardless of industry sectorThe 'positivity paradox' - social media echo chambers are painting a positive vision of the industry, which doesn't seem to be sh...2020-12-2328 min
Gather Global Podcast#4 - Clare Queen & David Kearney: "Double down on your strengths""The Gather Global Podcast aims to deliver genuine insight and offer you new perspectives on the golf industry, and this episode with Clare Queen and David Kearney goes above and beyond on both fronts.Clare is Head of Performance at Scottish Golf, and David is Performance Director at Irish Ladies Golfing Union. The conversation kicks off with an insight from David about the effect of the global pandemic on golf, which goes far beyond the typical commentary about golf 'enjoying a boom'.As well as discussing the impact of the pandemic on performance p...2020-12-0442 min
Gather Global Podcast#3 - David Shepherd: "We can make decisions immediately"Currently CEO at The Scandinavian, David Shepherd moved to Denmark in 2016, after eight years at Monte Rei and time at The Belfry.Perhaps most notably, also David holds the honour of being our first ever Gather member! So, we discussed why he joined the community, as well as looking at the industries that golf could learn from, and how he's crafted a career that's taken him to some of Europe's top venues.Look out for some key points:4:15 David's biggest frustration about the golf industry11:00 How to network more effectiv...2020-11-2059 min
Gather Global Podcast#2 - Agustín Piza: "Is what you think you know, actually correct?”Agustín Piza is a man of the world. From Scottish academic roots to his international award-winning architecture practice, Agustín talked honestly about his journey to becoming one of the most influential people in the golf industry today. From unexpected friendships with UK music icons to designing family friendly golf 'playgrounds', Agustin discusses opening our thinking to help us grow as individuals, and to develop the game for the future.We loved our conversation with Agustin and here’s some interesting bits to listen out for....2.30mins How CONTROVERSIAL is Gath...2020-11-0558 min
Gather Global Podcast#1: "So, what are you going to do about it?"In a searingly honest conversation, Gather co-founders Colin Bell, Mike Hyde & Adam Keable introduce Gather - a new global community for golf industry professionals.We discussed:Why the golf industry is broken, despite there being plenty of great people in the golf industryThe glacial pace of changeThe easy solution to make the golf industry booming againWhy do the Gather Values matter so much to us?What do we mean when we are talking about trying to be disruptive?Our biggest fearsWho the heck are we to say we should have the right...2020-10-2044 min