Membership · Hospitality · Community

Senior membership thinking, without a senior salary on the payroll.

We help private clubs, resorts, and hospitality-driven real estate grow membership, sharpen how they communicate, and build communities people are proud to belong to. Backed by more than a decade inside one of the country's largest club operators, we bring senior-level thinking to every engagement, and pull in the right specialists when a project calls for them.

Lauren Harris, founder of Modern Membership
20+ yrs
in membership, marketing & brand across clubs and resorts
$48M
annual member dues across the portfolio served
20,000+
memberships served (45,000 individuals)
44%
average email open rate across a 33-club portfolio
0→700
members in six months launching a new lifestyle club
~$600K
annual recurring revenue from one membership product, across nine clubs
$150K+
in annual dues from a single program launch (500+ upgrades)

Fluent in both corporate club portfolios and member-owned (equity) clubs, including a current board seat.

Where we work

Two worlds, one instinct

Making a place somewhere people are proud to belong, and will pay to be part of. That instinct sells club memberships, and it sells communities.

01

Private Clubs

Membership growth, communications, programming, and the board alignment behind repositionings and reinventions, drawn from over a decade inside one of the country's largest club operators.

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02

Hospitality & Real Estate

The lifestyle, membership, and community strategy that turns resort communities, branded residences, and amenity-rich developments into places people belong to, not just buy into.

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Proof

A three-year goal, cleared in year one

How we launched a new Sport & Social membership for a Napa Valley golf resort, and what happened next.

169
memberships sold against a three-year goal of 150
+105
net new memberships, year over year
~$1.1M in new annual recurring dues from a single new category.
Featured case study

Launching a resort membership, and steadying it through a year of change

A Napa Valley golf resort had no social membership for the locals who wanted in. We built the strategy, took it to market, and held the program together through heavy staff turnover. The category beat its three-year target in the first year.

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Lauren Harris
Who's behind it

I've seen this from every seat.

I spent over a decade inside one of the country's largest private club operators, moving up to Regional Director of Member Experience. My first membership role was at a member-owned club, and today I sit on an equity club's board. So I understand this from the corporate side, the member-owned side, and the boardroom.

Most clubs don't just have a marketing problem. They have a relevance problem. I help them become places members value, talk about, and choose again and again.

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How we help

Senior-level work, one engagement at a time

A fixed-scope project, a focused sprint, or an ongoing partner. Pick where you are.

Membership Launch & Growth

Pressure-test the strategy, validate the market, and get a hands-on leader who runs the launch, from the idea to members through the door.

01–02

Communications & Team

A content system your team can run without us, and the playbooks and training that turn the people you already have into confident membership marketers.

03–05

AI, Programming & Board

Practical AI tuned to your club, programming with a point of view, and the board alignment that turns a stalled project into a funded one.

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Trying to grow, reposition, or simply feel current again?

Tell us what you're working on. If it's the right fit, we'll figure out the smartest way in: a project, a sprint, or an ongoing partnership.

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