Dan Denehy, CCM, CHA – President, DENEHY Club Thinking Partners

Dan grew up in the hospitality business and applies a balanced, humanistic management style, along with an analytical approach, to a club or resort’s needs, assessments, and solutions.

His background includes senior management experience at the Walt Disney Company, where he served as a Disney Imagineer, and at the five-star, five-diamond Boca Raton Resort.   Before his consulting career, Dan served for 12 years as General Manager of Greenwich Country Club and before that the Jupiter Island Club in Hobe Sound Florida.

Over the last 25 years, Dan’s firm has conducted nearly 2,000 search and consulting assignments worldwide in the private club and resort space. Those assignments include Executive Search, New Club Startups, Board Governance, Membership Marketing, Performance Management, and more than 30 member and staff surveys each year.

Dan earned his undergraduate degree in Hotel Administration from Bryant University and his MBA in Entrepreneurship from the Johnson School at Cornell University.

He earned his CCM designation in 1988. At that time, he was the country’s youngest Certified Club Manager. He is also a Certified Hotel Administrator. Dan is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Club Association, the lobby group for the rights of private clubs and their members in America.

He is a member of several private clubs and is involved in their governance. Dan has published over 65 articles and webinars related to the club, resort, and consulting industries and is a frequent guest lecturer at Cornell University, New York University, and UMass Amherst in both their undergraduate and graduate programs.