Breakout Sessions

Engage in a stimulating group discussion with attendees in the exact same shoes as you! Led by the same experts, you'll engage with other attendees, ask your questions, and get feedback in an environment full of support.  

New for 2020! The afternoon sessions keep the same format as the morning but shift the focus. Better understand how to improve your leadership and personal development, while systematizing your business operations.

In this session attendees will focus on reaching profitability and meet the following guidelines:

- Looking to start their own business or;
- Been in business 0-2 years
- 1 facility
- Revenue less than $200,000

New for 2020! The afternoon sessions keep the same format as the morning but shift the focus. Better understand how to improve your leadership and personal development, while systematizing your business operations.

In this session attendees will focus on maximizing profitability and meet the following guidelines:

- In business 5+ years
- 1 or more facilities
- Revenue more than $500,000

Engage in a stimulating group discussion with attendees in the exact same shoes as you! Led by the same experts, you'll engage with other attendees, ask your questions, and get feedback in an environment full of support.  

Engage in a stimulating group discussion with attendees in the exact same shoes as you! Led by the same experts, you'll engage with other attendees, ask your questions, and get feedback in an environment full of support.  

How do fitness professionals stand out and magnetically attract their ideal client in a highly saturated industry packed with millions of other fitpros? Most likely your audience wants to learn how to easily fill their programs and build a waitlist of clients without spending big bucks on marketing and advertising.

Anyone who genuinely believes in the purpose of their team, as well as the team itself, can succeed as a leader. Few team leaders step into the role with all the skills needed to manage and lead a team to success. Although recognized as being valuable, teams can be under-utilized by many organizations.

Growth doesn’t have to feel like you’re climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro blindfolded with your hands tied behind your back. Meet the 7 Pillars we’ve used to build hundreds of 6 and dozens of 7 figure studios and discover how you can dial back your hours and drive up your profit margins.

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.

DNA testing for fitness, nutrition, and sports performance is experiencing an upward trend in interest. It opens new doors to service offerings clubs and personal trainers can provide. Does knowing a client’s genetic responses to diet and exercise really give them an advantage to success? Learn the genetic traits available for analysis as well as the risks and benefits of this new technology.

This session is especially impactful for localized gym/studio owners looking to utilize their website as a lead generating machine designed to help them grow their business. Join Houston Goodwin, President of 97 Display, as he walks you through 3 actionable steps to leverage your website as your most valuable marketing tool in 2020.

Takeaways:

This "Spinning"/Indoor Cycling game will bring engagement to the disinterested participants, competition to the competitors and data to the fitness enthusiasts. No special bike/equipment needed. 

Shadō Fitness will INCREASE your memberships, build community and set up a retention percentage unlike any others within the industry. 

Marketing is tough and consistently driving leads to your business is even tougher.  Take in a panel discussion from 4 of the most successful studio and gym owners in the country as they share their past experiences, and what's working for them right now so you can go back to your business on Monday and implement new ideas immediately.

Have you been “grinding” in a gym with your clients and wondering why you aren’t as successful as some other fitness pros?  That’s because today your biggest competitive advantage isn’t providing a cool workout or your fitness knowledge.  It’s your culture!   After helping hundreds of gyms around the world build contagious cultures, Martin Rooney shares his secrets on how to develop an environment that not only reignites your business, but rekindles your fire for fitness, too.

Too often, we seek complex answers in favor of the simple solutions that exist before us. This coaching session will teach you specific exercises to improve your leadership, team building, service offerings and client experience. Best of all, you will learn simple yet effective ways to grow your revenues and improve your profitability.

The audience will leave with a very unique sales approach that will help trainers feel more like coaches and less like pushy, aggressive sales people. Sales is not a dirty word. It's our own perception and skewed understanding that cause us to disconnect with others.

In this presentation Ivan Barrera will discuss what he thought was his next big thing in his career, but little did he know, it would be his next big disaster in his career.

Listen up on the lessons learned from this experience and what he did to come out of it a better and happier version of himself.

In this session, you will learn the practical first steps needed to earn incremental revenue by selling online "shoulder" services in your studio. These services not only increase revenue, but they add value to your clients, improve retention, and act as amazing marketing opportunities.