Brand Drift: The Silent Threat to Generational Club Transitions
Branding is usually treated as a project. The board approves a new logo, a new website, a fresh set of brand guidelines, and considers the job done. But in a club navigating generational turnover, branding is so much more than a project. It's the ongoing translation layer sitting underneath every staff interaction, every capital decision, every piece of governance communication, every referral conversation. It's the thing doing the quiet work of letting a 70-year-old and a 38-year-old sit in the same dining room, and both feel, without having to say it out loud, that they're home.
