Unleash Your Leadership Potential

Presented by Debra Siena
A Leader must abandon themselves to the strengths of other. Learn how to live and lead at your full potential by believing in yourself, giving to get, inspiring and empowering, challenging the status quo, and having a vision. Then select employees who are the right fit, engage them with care, and create a supportive team environment to retain top talent.

Time: 43 Minutes

Unleash Your Leadership Potential

Presented by Debra Siena
A Leader must abandon themselves to the strengths of other. Learn how to live and lead at your full potential by believing in yourself, giving to get, inspiring and empowering, challenging the status quo, and having a vision. Then select employees who are the right fit, engage them with care, and create a supportive team environment to retain top talent.

Time: 43 Minutes

Soft Skills For Hard Bodies

Presented by Nathalie Lacombe
Despite all of our efforts, 50% of our clients drop out of their fitness programs within the first three months. Lost cause? Not at all! Nathalie offers you practical strategies thanks to the evidence-based soft skills that will help your clients persevere and finally achieve their goals.

Time: 92 mins

Leadership Excellence In Club Business

Presented by Carrie Kepple
Learn leadership strategies and skills that create high performing club environments, cultures and teams. No matter where you are in your fitness career, you will find something useful in this session to help you grow as a leader.

Multimedia For Growth & Profitability

With Sara Kooperman, JD
Examine how to market effectively and explore branding your business through various media sites driving it to success. Uncover your unique market position, create email blasts, construct eNewsletters, mold your website and expand your social media presence. Explore ways to take your business to the next level with effective, strategic, and inexpensive marketing. Learn from this entrepreneur who started from a 3rd-floor walk-up and created a multi-million-dollar enterprise.

Quick & Dirty 30

With Irene Lewis-McCormick, MS, CSCS
Ideas for quick training, ready-made class routines using minimal to maximal equipment. Experience 3, 30-minute workouts designed to inspire intensity, effort and sweat. This session offers hard core, turn-key class designs to improve performance, incorporate partner training in a coach-based group training format.

Leadership Toolbox

With Ann Gilbert
Having moved from working “in” the fitness business to working “on” the fitness business, I understand the need to take risks, trust & verify, and build a team that can share an owner’s vision. Let’s discuss the need to build a dynamic team and study how managing the day means being able to change on a dime while taking care of members needs first and foremost. With over 38 years of fitness experience, I learned that as an active ager, I have found my true fitness calling as a boutique club owner.

Elapsed Time: 47 minutes

Running the Show: Customer Service

With Lawrence Biscontini, MA
Analyze and imitate the best in customer service from around the globe. Join Lawrence as he shares his two decades of experience on how to attract, train and maintain clients and members. Group Instructors, Personal Trainers and Owners will benefit from this creative and detailed presentation exploring customer acquisition, retention and management. Leave with tools to grow your client base and client satisfaction. (LECTURE)

Leadership Skills for Managers

With Daniela Tempesta
Management can be difficult, and managing your team is no different. In this interactive environment, discover the skills with which you’re already equipped to communicate with your staff and facility members. Learn to navigate difficult situations and embrace individuality while taking an inward, self-evaluation approach, ultimately giving you the freedom to manage your team from a neutral, productive perspective. (LECTURE)

Cueing, Coaching and Communicating

With Irene Lewis-McCormick, MS, CSCS
Fitness professionals are drawn to group training because it’s time-saving, cost-effective and represents a decreased workload. However, a fantastic trainer will not necessarily translate to excellence when training groups. Juggle the demands of group training by learning skills to create inclusive environments, fun and a tribe mentality that leads to more profit and impact.