2022 Excellence in Club Management® Award Winners Announced
2022 Excellence in Club Management® Award Winners Announced
McMahon Group and National Club Association (NCA) have announced the 2022 recipients of the Excellence in Club Management® (ECM) Awards. The awards were established in 1997 by the McMahon Group and have been
co-sponsored by NCA since 2018.
Award winners are selected through nominations submitted on behalf of qualified candidates by other parties. Award recipients are selected solely on the basis of their achievements at the club they currently manage; “lifetime achievements” are not considered.
The Selection Committee for the 2022 Awards was chaired by David Chag, CCM, Senior Advisor and former General Manager/Chief Operating Officer of The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. A full listing of judges, in addition to information on past winners and on how to nominate candidates for future years’ awards, can be found at the special website for the ECM Awards www.clubmanageraward.com.
The 2022 Excellence in Club Management winners are:
- The James H. Brewer Award (Country/Golf Clubs with 600 or More Full-Privilege Members) – M. Kent Johnson, CCM, ECM, General Manager/Chief Operating Officer, Baltimore Country Club
- The Mead Grady Award (Country/Golf Clubs with Fewer than 600 Full-Privilege Members) – Michael Stacks, ECM, General Manager, Indian Hills Country Club
- The Mel Rex Award (City, Athletic or Specialty (Non-Golf) Club) – Steve Cummings, CCM, CCE, ECM, General Manager, Harvard Club of Boston
- The Rising Star Award (Assistant Manager) – Tai Tran, CCM, ECM, Assistant General Manager, Detroit Athletic Club
2022 Winners Left to Right: M. Kent Johnson, Michael Stacks, Steve Cummings and Tai Tran
The 2022 ECM Award winners will be honored at a ceremony and dinner on May 16, 2022 as part of NCA’s 2022 National Club Conference in Charleston, S.C. The Conference agenda will also include a panel discussion by the winners on May 17 that will be moderated by Frank Vain, President, McMahon Group.
McMahon Group is a full-service, private club consulting firm dedicated to serving clubs in all aspects of their planning, clubhouse, golf and membership needs. The firm’s extensive and diverse experience includes service to country, golf, city, dining, athletic, yacht, university, military and gated community clubs.
The National Club Association (NCA) has been the advocate for the private club industry in Washington, D.C., for more than 60 years. As the voice of private clubs on Capitol Hill, NCA ensures that club concerns are forefront when legislative and regulatory issues affecting the industry are being decided. In addition, NCA provides club leaders an outstanding array of resources on club industry trends, governance best practices, legal and operational matters and ways to strengthen club leadership. nationalclub.org.
About Bryan Beckmann
Bryan has been in the marketing and graphic design field for over 20 years and directs all creative development for the McMahon marketing department. He creates graphic material for facility project presentations, club booklets, videos and spearheads the development of the McMahon Report®. While managing McMahon’s websites, he also creates artwork for publications and creates and distributes e-newsletters.
Bryan graduated with honors in 2004 from the University of Missouri St. Louis with a bachelors degree in marketing and graphic design.
Bryan has 3 beautiful children with his lovely wife Angela – Cydney, Mason and Hannah. Being an active person he likes to spend most of his leisure time outdoors fishing, hunting, golfing and riding ATV’s. He is a former athlete and also a sports fanatic, which is why he loves being deeply involved in many of his children’s activities.