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We asked tribal leaders to discuss their current priorities, how innovation is shaping their gaming and hospitality strategies, and how they cultivate leadership to support long-term stability and growth. Here is what Principal Chief David Hill had to say….
David Hill, Principal Chief
Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Coweta Casino Hotel; Creek Nation Casinos – Holdenville, Bristow, Checotah; Duck Creek Casino; Muscogee Creek Nation Casino; Okemah Casino; One Fire Casino; River Spirit Casino Resort – OK
creeknationcasinos.com / muscogeenation.com
PRIORITIES: Our top priorities at the Muscogee Nation are aggressive expansion projects in economic development, healthcare access and public service delivery. Our Muscogee Nation Gaming Enterprises team have supported these goals by aligning their vision with ours to pursue growth opportunities in entertainment desert areas that are experiencing population increase. In the last year, we’ve opened two new casino hotel resorts in the Lake Eufaula area and the rapidly expanding community of Coweta. These facilities are not only providing jobs and opportunity; they’re changing the future economic landscape of these regions. Our numbers so far in the early stages indicate that our projections for great success in these endeavors are right on schedule. It’s an exciting time.
INNOVATION: In gaming and hospitality, we believe that if you’re growing nowhere, then you’re going nowhere. In a saturated market, you have to be on the front-end of technology and innovation to keep patrons and guests engaged in your product. Recently, Muscogee Nation Gaming Enterprises partnered with Everi to introduce, “Vi,” a first-of-its-kind Class II mobile gaming app. Now available on the App Store and Google Play, the app enables patrons to play more than 30 popular Everi Class II games on their mobile devices. We’re proud that this gives us a modern way to meet our players at their preferred touchpoint and extend our offerings beyond the traditional gaming floor.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: Every day, we challenge our leadership team to ask themselves the same question: Are the decisions we’re making today going to advance and create a better life for our people in 25 years, 50 years? We have an orientation and onboarding process that grounds our team in tradition, culture, history, and accountability. They literally attend multiple days of presentations on the Muscogee ways, from A-Z. Nothing is more important to us than our employees and leadership never forgetting just who it is they’re working for, and what we’ve come through to get to this point. It keeps us all humbled, grounded and, most importantly, focused on the tasks at hand.
