Patrick and the Impact Club team brought the companion club model to a convention audience for the first time. Club president-elect Katie Tosi opened by describing her own resignation from Rotary during the pandemic and her return through a club that let her serve without attending meetings. The session argued that clubs which widen who counts as a Rotarian stop needing to recruit.

A working session on what separates a companion club from a satellite club: it stays attached to its host club rather than breaking away at twenty members. Patrick and Katie Tosi walked through the model, the objections clubs raise about it, and the flexibility that brings back members who have already left.

Patrick traced the model from its first approval in June 2020 to more than 1,200 meetings with clubs worldwide, including companion clubs in the Netherlands and Great Britain. The session dealt with the obstacles clubs raise in practice — dues, meeting structure, and why a new group needs Rotary at all — and with converting members who can no longer attend rather than losing them.

Patrick and the team launched the North American Club Creation Team, six years after the first companion club chartered. The session covered lessons from pairing struggling clubs with established ones, including nine members who were ready to leave and instead became a companion club of an existing Rotary club, and introduced the team supporting new club formation across the zones.