D'Arcy Walsh explains how the Rotary Adelaide model works and what your club can do to achieve sustainable growth.

A brief about Ian D’Arcy Walsh

Ian, or D’Arcy as he is more widely known, has been a Rotarian since 1994 – 18 years with the Rotary Club of Adelaide and 9 years with the Rotary Club of East Davao in the Southern Philippines. He has served in a variety of positions at the club level, included President, and undertaken a number of leadership roles at the District and National level. He is currently a member of the Core Team for the Regionalisation of Rotary across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and is also the Chair of the Central Region of ROMAC. He spent the last 35 years of his working life designing, managing and evaluating a variety of official development assistance projects in 23 different countries spanning South-East Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. He held a number of Project Director and Team Leader roles and been an adviser / consultant on many projects as a specialist in various educational areas, displacement and resettlement consultation, policy development, institutional capacity building, peace initiatives, poverty alleviation and project management. D’Arcy’s late wife, Carol, was also an active Rotarian and a Past President of the Prospect Rotary Club, and he has three children and five grandchildren.

A brief about D’Arcy’s talk

D’Arcy was President of the Rotary Club of Adelaide in 2016/17 and was a significant part of the team that changed the Club’s culture and method of operation, and in so doing re-invigorated the Club and substantially turned around its membership decline. D’Arcy has analysed the strategies and approaches they implemented at the Adelaide Club and, acknowledging that the nature of all clubs can be quite different, he has specifically looked at the philosophy behind what they did and come up with five simple generic steps that any Club could implement to help them change their Club and assist in attracting and retaining members.

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