Greater Adelaide Area
Phillip has worked in the leisure industry since 1977 when he joined the Department of Youth Sport and Recreation (Victoria). After four years in local government as a senior manager responsible for all recreation, leisure and community services, he established Phillip Gray and Associates, the fore runner of SGL, in 1988. With Michael King, he established both the Australian and New Zealand operations of SGL Consulting Group. Phillip is an experienced leisure planner and management consultant who has undertaken many leisure plans, feasibility studies, business plans, management audits and prepared a number of management contracts. He has undertaken assignments in all states of Australia and New Zealand. He brings practical advice to his assignments as a result of his involvement in two other companies. He was Managing Director of Belair Management Services, a public unlisted company which managed five public golf courses, and Chief Executive Officer of Casa Leisure which manages five public leisure aquatic and sports centres. Specialties: Phillip has been involved in all areas of leisure planning and management and has special skills in market research, strategic planning, management planning, policy evaluation and situation analysis.
CASA Leisure is a company with an exceptional twenty year history of successfully managing leisure and aquatic facilities. CASA Leisure has managed eight indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities, all located in country locations. We currently operate five, local government owned recreation facilities with sports halls, health and fitness studios and gymnastics halls and a public golf course. All CASA Leisure facilities are managed with the same philosophy – to improve community leisure opportunities and maximise benefits to the local community. CASA Leisure offers low management overheads, thereby reducing the cost to the local community.
SGL is a specialist recreation, sport and open space consulting practice. We have been consulting since 1988, when Phillip Gray established his own consulting practice. Subsequently, the company merged with Michael King and Associates to create SGL, the leading leisure consulting firm in Australasia. SGL is an alliance of Australian and New Zealand leisure, tourism and management planning companies. We are committed to providing the highest quality advice on all aspects of the leisure industry. SGL is recognised internationally for the quality of our work. We have completed assignments in Qatar, Bahrain, China, India and the USA. We have been commissioned to work on major facilities for events such as the Commonwealth Games (New Delhi and Melbourne), Olympic Game (Beijing) and Asia Games (Qatar). SGL has undertaken an extensive range of open space, recreation, tourism and community service projects. Assignments have been undertaken in all mainland States, as well as national projects for the Commonwealth Government and for the National and local governments in New Zealand. SGL has offices in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Ocean Grove, and Sydney. We have also established an operation in New Zealand with offices in Auckland and Christchurch.