Gary Forster
Hagai Maidenberg | August 8, 2016Thanks in part to his degree in Architecture and an MBA from Purdue, Gary has been a popular conference presenter for over 20 years, first gaining notoriety for his camp design and maintenance expertise and results-oriented marketing.
As executive director of Camp Jewell YMCA in Connecticut, Gary assembled and inspired a team that became an incubator for camp program, facility, marketing, and operation innovations that continues to draw visiting camp leaders to see what they have heard and read about in Gary’s countless presentations and magazine articles. More than 20 Jewell alumni are now year-round camp directors around the United States.
But it was the independent research Gary began while he was the YMCA’s National Camping Specialist and served on the American Camp Association National Board that his greatest contribution to youth development emerged. Visiting over 250 camps and annually surveying thousands of parents and campers, Gary began helping camps make dramatic enrollment improvements through a disciplined focus on fewer things rather than more.
Gary even met his wife Meg at summer camp 30 years ago when she was the camp nurse. Bradenton Florida is now their base-camp, from which he travels to 35 camps and a dozen conferences each year, consulting and presenting on operations and risk management, programming and marketing, staff selection and training, and of course, camp facility design!
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Gary Forster
Hagai Maidenberg | August 8, 2016 部分归功于他在普渡大学建筑学和学位和工商管理硕士学位的，盖里作为一个广受欢迎的会议演讲人已经超过二十年的时间，他首先在露营设计和维护的专门知识和结果导向的营销领域获得了良好的口碑。
作为康涅狄格珍宝露营的行政主管，盖里组建并且鼓励了一个团队，这个团队成为了露营项目、设施、市场营销和运营创新的孵化器并且持续地让更多露营领导人看到或者听到盖里无数的露营演讲和杂志文章。20多个珍宝的营员现在已经是美国各地的全年露营主管。
当盖里担任YMCA的国家露营专家和美国露营协会全国委员会时，他的独立研究对青少年发展的巨大贡献才显现出来。在访问了超过250个录用和年度对几千个家长和营员的调查后，盖里通过专注于少数的事情而不是多数的事情来帮助露营实现了显著地注册增长。
30年前，盖里在一个夏令营遇到了他的妻子梅格，那时她是夏令营的护士。佛罗里达的布雷登顿是他们的露营基地，在那里每一年他拜访35个露营并参加十几个会议，就运营和风险管理、安排和市场营销、员工选择和培训以及设施设计进行提供咨询和演讲。
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