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Ruben Mejia | Executive Vice President of the Americas, SportsArt

Movement is energy. With SportsArt’s ECO-POWR line, capture the energy expended during a workout and convert it into energy-grade electricity that can be used immediately by your facility. Offset your facility’s carbon footprint with EVERY workout!

Presenter Bio

Ruben Mejia, executive vice president for SportsArt Americas, has five years of experience in the fitness industry, previously holding the title of chief technology officer. Prior to his work at SportsArt, Mejia held executive roles within the technology and ecommerce spaces. In 2000, after four years of active deployment in the military, Mejia began working in the corporate IT and telecommunication fields for the U.S. Army, launching his career and interest in the technology industry as a whole.  

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Ryan Hallett | Head of Service, My PT Hub

Learn everything you need to take your online fitness business to new heights!  My PT Hub's platform is an all-in-one software solution to provide any fitpro, studio or gym with the tools necessary to dramatically increase revenue while keeping everything all in one place.

Presenter Bio

Ryan Hallett (Head of Service, My PT Hub) has spent the last five years at the forefront of our industry-leading Support team, providing the necessary education and assistance to our network of over 100,000 fitness professionals to help them leverage My PT Hub’s software to level-up their fitness businesses.

Bridging the gap between our trainer community and Product team, Ryan plays a key role in the development of our software to provide the feedback necessary to make our award-winning platform faster, smarter and user friendly for our coaching network and their clients.

To hear more from Ryan, make sure to check out his Business Blueprint masterclass video-series, weekly training webinars and regular HUBCAST podcast series featuring fitness industry leaders and trainer ambassadors.

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Ben Davis | CEO, Fitness Marketing Agency

In this session, the team at Fitness Marketing Agency breaks down the numerous ways that you can attract ideal clients through the door for your fitness business using offline and online digital marketing strategies, in a cost-effective way.

 

Presenter Bio

Ben Davis, CEO and Founder of Fitness Marketing Agency (FMA) has been an expert in the field of fitness and marketing for over 20 years. Ben started his career as a Personal Trainer, qualifying in 2001. He soon built up a strong client base and set up his own successful business of group personal training sessions in 2006. 

In 2018, Ben founded the award-winning business FMA, providing fitness professionals across the world with marketing tools and resources to aid in lead generation, conversions, sales, and growth.

Now, with a team of 34 and 400+ clients who are all Independent Gym & Studio Owners, FMA has gone from strength to strength and continues to grow a worldwide portfolio of clients.

Ben specializes in quick and effective marketing techniques for the fitness industry that get fast and highly profitable results.
 

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Eve Nasby | President, Band of Hands

Discover the all-inclusive employment system you've been searching for, but didn’t know existed - and why you need it if you want to crush your business.

Presenter Bio

Eve Nasby has served in the San Diego community since 1989 where she moved after graduating from Purdue University.

A few years later she entered the recruitment and staffing world. After over 30 years, of holding leadership roles with global staffing companies, she has become a talent expert.

Eve is an entrepreneur and is the President of a Tech startup, Band of Hands.

Eve enjoyed hosting a few local TV and Radio shows in San Diego which were focused on helping veterans understand their value and highlighted organizations dedicated to their success.  She coordinated, facilitated, and emceed many standing-room-only events which featured corporate leaders expounding upon the value of and strategy behind hiring veterans. She’s been a member of the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce serving on the Military Advisory Committee, and helping to create programs to encourage companies to employ veterans.

She is co-founder of Professional Military Recruiter and America’s Finest TV.   Eve currently co-authors an article for San Diego Veteran Magazine and Homeland Magazine, reaching 4 million veterans and active duty military each month.

Eve continues to actively meet with active-duty military personnel to help them successfully transition while she manages strategy, sales, marketing & customer service for an industry disruptive tech start-up designed to change the way work gets done.

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Zach Adams | Director of Growth, 97 Display

 

In this seminar, I'll discuss the difference between inbound and outbound marketing, and why inbound is so crucial; the impact of SEO and CRO, and how capitalizing on both can bring long-term, sustainable growth; and tips for temperature checking your website to ensure your online storefront is up-to-par for Google and consumers.

Presenter Bio

Zach Adams is the Director of Growth at 97 Display, specializing in lead-generating, SEO-driven website strategies. Working alongside a team of industry experts, Zach has been instrumental in helping numerous fitness and martial arts businesses excel in their inbound marketing efforts by implementing proven SEO/CRO-built website models. With a deep passion for driving the success of fitness studios, Zach focuses on harnessing the power of organic website lead generation to elevate each unique fitness facility's marketing endeavors to new heights.

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Angela Gargano | Certified Trainer, Former Gym Owner, TrueCoach

Angela will take you through her personal journey and tell you what NOT to do so you can avoid those missteps and be successful. You'll learn how to get leads using social media, how to create and cultivate a community, how to get clients into your 1:1 Coaching Program, and how to find the passion in your coaching business while staying consistent and avoiding burnout.

Presenter Bio

Angela Gargano is a fierce athlete, coach, international fitness model, and speaker.

Before becoming a full-time multi-passionate entrepreneur, Angela worked as a biochemist at Brown University. Since throwing in the lab coat and goggles in 2013 to open her own gym in Cranston, Rhode Island, Angela has truly lived multiple lives in the athletic and entrepreneurial space, defying odds and setbacks to become an authentic and relatable voice to the public eye.

Angela has now competed on American Ninja Warrior 4x, won the Title of Miss Fitness America 2016, and created an online fitness empire for women called Strong Feels Good, where she teaches women to ditch the scale and focus on strength and feeling as a way to measure progress. She has also helped over 500 women conquer their pull-ups with her online program, Pull-up Revolution.

In the summer of 2021, Angela appeared all over the world as the Oxygen Magazine Covergirl, where she spoke about tearing her ACL on the Ninja Warrior course and coming back 11 months later stronger than ever.

Angela is a huge advocate for speaking about body image, as she was made fun of growing up for her “manly” arms and build. She would hide in a sweatshirt daily at school to avoid being made fun of and was rejected by many fitness modeling agencies. But this didn't stop Angela from now having 3 magazine covers and becoming an international fitness model in some of the world's biggest publications: Women’s Health, Shape, Strong Fitness Magazine, and Popsugar Fitness.

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Ron McPhee | CEO, Nuvita

In this session, you will learn how you can significantly grow your business with Corporate Wellness.

Presenter Bio

Ron is the CEO at Nuvita.  A 20 year veteran of the wellness tech industry.  Past division president at Polar, founder of HealthFirst and current general partner in health and technology venture capital firm Verge.

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Tom Leonardis | Marketing & Sales Specialist, KISS Marketing

KISS Marketing's Marketing & Sales Specialist, Tom Leonardis, gives it all away in his presentation on perhaps the most important step of your marketing system: making the sale!

Presenter Bio

Tom has been in the industry for 17+ years starting as a trainer the day he turned 18 at NYSC. He has a master’s degree in Exercise Science with a concentration in Biomechanics. Before running Vince’s gym, GFP,  he was the Manager at Equinox in Summit, NJ, and opened the Gramercy Equinox on Park Avenue
in NYC.

He knows the ins and outs of operating a gym, running challenges, lead generation, and follow-up. Most importantly, he knows how to SELL! He is an
expert at training your staff to master these skills so you can focus on other aspects of your business.

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Kiley Motley | Head of Customer Success, Momence

In this bite-sized session, we’re going to dive deep into marketing for your business. We’ll explore the capabilities of Momence as well as get you ready to start with your efforts today.

Presenter Bio

Since completing her first 200hr teacher training in 2016, it has been Kiley’s mission to share the practice of yoga with the world in any way she can, knowing that it is an access point to empowerment in people’s lives. Within 6 months of completing her first training, Kiley moved from NYC to Denver, to support the birth and evolution of BIG Power Yoga as a founding teacher and Community Director. Since then, she has completed over 1,000 hours of yoga trainings, and during her time in Denver, Kiley taught over 1,300 yoga classes; grew the community base to upwards of 7,000; designed and led numerous teacher trainings and personal development programs; and led a team of 30+ people in creating a resilient yoga business model. In September of 2021, Kiley moved from Denver to Venice, CA, where she now resides. Just before leaving the studio in CO, Kiley was introduced to the team at Momence, and she saw an opportunity to continue her mission of sharing yoga with the world. Now, as Head of Customer Success for Momence, Kiley is able to support the development of a technology that expands the capacity of how and where the practice and teachings of yoga can spread to. She is passionate about ensuring that the Momence platform works impeccably so that the teachers and studio owners using it can focus on doing what they’re best at. Kiley is still teaching private yoga and coaching 1:1, and is excited to begin teaching classes again in the near future.

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Krista Popowych | Global Director of Group Education, Keiser

Learn how to utilize technology to your and your rider’s advantage. Maximize the benefits of technology and keep riders’ engaged and inspired both on and off the bike!

Presenter Bio

Krista attributes her award-winning career to the lessons learned and taught from the group exercise studio. Considered an expert in her field, her in-depth knowledge of group fitness, passion for the industry, and contagious energy have taken her across the globe presenting and consulting for over 20 years on group fitness, training, and management.

As an IDEA World Fitness Instructor of the Year winner, a three-time CanFitPro Presenter of the Year, and Keiser Global Director of Group Education, Krista knows how to stay on trend with group exercise programs and classes. “I believe that the connection and experiences we can create for members through small and large group classes, a correctly designed schedule, engaged staff, and innovative programming keeps a facility vibrant and packs the studio.”

With a degree in Human Kinetics, and a published author of Partner Workouts: Training Together for Better Results, Krista has been instrumental with start-ups and managing both boutique studios to 500,000 sq. foot facilities. Her checklist of real-world experiences in key areas of the fitness industry gives her true street cred. With over 10,000 classes under her belt, she is ready to help build, grow, and support your group exercise program.

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Eddie Arpin | Co-Founder, OfferingTree

In this training session, you’ll learn the 5 key pillars of running a successful fitness business and a framework for how to identify which of these pillars is holding your business back from greater success. This allows you to focus your time and resources where it matters most.

Presenter Bio

Eddie has been helping people achieve their goals through technology for over 15 years. He is currently helping thousands of wellness and fitness business owners as a co-founder of OfferingTree. OfferingTree is an all-in-one software platform that takes the headache out of running your business. Eddie loves to help people who are new to OfferingTree solve their tech problems and set them up for success so they can focus on growing professionally and helping their students and clients.

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Jessica Armstrong | Community and Partnerships Manager, Teamup

If you’re looking for a high-level session on converting your clients' verbal testimonials into written reviews shared on the best review platforms, you’ll want to attend this seminar with TeamUp.

Presenter Bio

Jessica Armstrong is the Community and Partnerships Manager at TeamUp, the most recommended fitness management software. With years of experience in fitness marketing and partnerships, Jessica is dedicated to helping the TeamUp and FBA communities build thriving businesses.

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Steve Guscott | Operations Manager, EZFacility

Operations may not be flashy, but it has the potential to make or break your business's success. Fortunately, once you know the best practices, it's easy to implement processes that will help you deliver a stellar member experience while keeping your finances healthy.

Presenter Bio

As manager of EZFacility’s UK branch and head of the company’s mobile app division, Steve Guscott has a passion for connecting fitness professionals with cutting-edge business tools and technology. Over the past decade, he has helped hundreds of fitness businesses implement software solutions that streamline operations, enhance member experiences, and drive growth.

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Nathan Farrish | Studio Account Executive, Trainerize

We spoke to hundreds of successful studio gyms to find out how they brought online coaching into their business to grow their communities and keep them as clients for longer. Learn how to maximize client retention by taking your community online, building value and running effective challenges (the low-hanging fruit for growth).

Presenter Bio

Nathan Farrish is the Studio Consultant at Trainerize. He connects with gym and business owners around the world to share best practices for online coaching. Previously with Depth Training and Physiotherapy, he led the personal, corporate, and group fitness programs for 200 full time members and 10 corporate clients, including Shopify and BlackBerry. He now trains clients virtually, (using Trainerize, of course!) helping other remote workers look and feel their best!

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Alex Von Hagen | Head of Enterprise Sales, Virtuagym

In this session, you'll learn the core benefits of Virtuagym's solutions for improving business efficiency and growth. You'll also discover how to select features that are best for you and your preferences and leverage the various integrations that are available thanks to Virtuagym's open platform.

Presenter Bio

I’m Alex, and I’ve been part of Virtuagym since 2017. I currently head up the Global Enterprise team.

My day-to-day includes speaking with gym chain executives worldwide, as well as collaborating with other leading suppliers in the fitness industry. I enjoy that we’re empowering people to live healthier lives, and I’m lucky to work with peers who share the same passion for health and wellbeing. 

Contributing to Virtuagym’s growth and the overall advancement of the sector is something I’m happy to invest my energy in.

Originally from Colorado, I’ve now been based in The Netherlands and working from Amsterdam for the past 8 years.

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