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Are you ready for the most comprehensive management training course for the health and fitness industry?
Join us for the REX Leadership Academy! This is an exclusive, immersive experience designed for leaders like you who are ready to grow, challenge, and transform their leadership potential. Join us.
Over the course of two-and-a-half days, you'll dive deep into critical leadership topics to help you lead your business or department with greater effectiveness and efficiency.
Graduate from the only immersive industry event in the US to engage with industry experts, network with peers, and gain actionable strategies that will help you thrive as a leader.
REX creates an environment of exceptional honesty and openness. Members report that the direct, straightforward communication they routinely get from REX is not available to them anywhere else in their work or personal lives.
Gain actionable strategies and insights to elevate your business, improve member retention, and drive profitability.
Learn proven leadership techniques to inspire your team, streamline operations, and achieve your business goals.
Develop the skills needed to lead your department effectively and contribute to the overall success of your organization.
Discover key leadership principles and tools to accelerate your journey toward becoming a successful industry leader
Gain valuable insights from experts in their field.
Host & REX CEO
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Partner, Chief Strategy Officer, Knight Agency
CEO, Little Rock Athletic Centers
President, Healthworks Fitness, GymIt and Republic Fitness
VP of Fitness at Healthworks and Republic Fitness
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Crotonville Conference Centre
Host & REX CEO
The REX community embodies the spirit of purposeful leadership. Individuals who lead by example, have a proven track record of success, and care deeply about their teams, members, and shareholders. They don’t meander through life in mediocrity but rather choose to challenge themselves, and their organizations, through continual improvement. Exposing themselves regularly to introspection and inspection.
The evidence of their ability to lead is readily apparent simply because others choose to follow them. Top leaders spend their time revealing and cultivating what’s best in people, including themselves. Understanding that “who they are” is likely “how they lead”. They seek feedback, identify their blind spots, and demonstrate vulnerability. All in the pursuit of refining their ability to influence and motivate others to meet high expectations.
In addition, they have clarity about working hard on the very limited number of things that can make all the difference to their business. Leaders focus on talent, strategy, systems, and culture. Ensuring that priorities are sacrosanct, sufficiently communicated, and embedded in the daily fabric of the company ethos.
In this session, we will explore the concept of what it really means to “lean into leadership”!
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Crotonville Conference Centre
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Culture today is such a diverse phrase that means so many things. However its implications to successful managing and leading a club today are immense. Culture must not take a back seat to strategy, operations, sales or organization design. It must be in the drivers seat as all those stem from the culture you have. They say how you do one thing is how you do everything. Well your culture is that engine of how you behave as an organization, how you grow, whom you hire, how you operate and ultimately how you win. Join us as we explore and learn how to create and drive your culture.
This session will be brief and packed with info to get you started on shaping your culture for a future of success.
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President, Healthworks Fitness, GymIt and Republic Fitness
VP of Fitness, Healthworks Fitness and Republic Fitness
How do the financials make a difference in the swimming pool, locker room, and group pilates class? This session will explore essential financial management strategies for club executives and managers to maximize profitability and ensure long-term success for fitness clubs of all sizes.
The foundation lies in understanding your facility’s key financial metrics through tracking revenues and expenses, identifying your team’s financial key performance indicators (KPIs), and interpreting financial data to drive informed decision-making at all levels of the organization.
Build on this foundation by crafting a compelling narrative around your organization’s financial data, making it easier to communicate about finances with your team members and external stakeholders. This financial foundation and guiding narrative will help your Executive Team, Managers, and individual contributors understand how their daily actions make a tangible financial impact on the club.
Effective financial management is about knowing how the numbers connect to your day-to-day operations, bridging the gap between the accounting department and the rest of your core team, and enabling each team member to make choices that positively impact the bottom line. By mastering these financial keys, you’ll be better equipped to originate the capital needed for innovative projects and achieve long-term financial success in your organization.
CEO, Little Rock Athletic Centers
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Having worked with hundreds and hundreds of clubs over the years, they all have two things in common regardless of size or scope –
1. they believe their good member service is a differentiator for them in the marketplace and
2. unfortunately, they fail to consistently deliver a memorable experience. Delivering on this lofty brand promise is truly hard work.
Those companies who achieve recognition in this realm are obsessive about being customer centric. They dedicate an inordinate amount of time and effort to establish standards, train employees, gather customer feedback, measure results, respond quickly to issues, and create systems or processes to prevent future disappointments.
They also understand that it takes a collaborative and orchestrated approach.
In this session we will delve into the extensive playbook of delivering excellent member experience and give you the insights to make it happen under your leadership.
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Crotonville Conference Centre
When the lights go on and the curtains open, it’s showtime. Growing up as a ballerina, Danielle became an expert at bringing choreography to life to tell a story to audiences night after night. Through the movement, music, and costumes, Danielle learned to authentically tell stories in ways that people could connect to.
Danielle’s love for storytelling has evolved from the dance floor into marketing and business. Today, she taps into storytelling to inspire human connection through purpose. With a rebellious and curious spirit, she helps reveal the power of people through alignment of company and personal purpose. Danielle will share her experiences working with teams to help you understand the instrumental value that storytelling has on beliefs, behavior, and belonging. Through storytelling, we can find connections that transcend and endure.
Partner, Chief Strategy Officer, Knight Agency
Personal Training Management 101
This session is for fitness business owners or managers wanting to build or improve a successful personal training program.
We’ll be diving deep into the critical elements of a thriving training department. We’ll cover everything from attracting and hiring top-notch trainers, to creating a seamless on-boarding process that sets them up for success. We’ll also tackle the crucial issue of trainer retention, sharing strategies to keep your best talent engaged, educated and motivated.
Beyond that, we’ll explore key performance indicators and the ideal ranges you should be targeting. I’ll also share best practices for member onboarding into personal training, ensuring a positive experience from day one. And finally, we’ll demystify trainer levels and pricing structures, giving you a clear roadmap for maximizing revenue.
This is your chance to gain actionable insights and network with other industry leaders. Join me at the REX Roundtables Leadership Academy this July in New York. Let’s build stronger, more profitable personal training programs together! I look forward to seeing you there!
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REX Chair, Personal Training Manager Roundtable and VP of Lionel University Global
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Stay tuned for exciting announcements on sponsors joining us for the REX Leadership Academy.
Our members share their experiences and touch on the value, comradery and business building results they’ve achieved by being part of REX Roundtables.
Still have some questions? See our FAQ's below.
Club Owners, Regional Managers, Club Managers and Department Heads.
As part of the REX Leadership Academy you will gain valuable industry knowledge that will help elevate your leadership. Walking away with an understanding of how to structure your club/company, build a culture, foster engagement, grow your profitability and set the strategic path to excellence.
In addition you will build a network of like minded leaders that you can call on and learn from for many years to come. This is not just about growth for your club its about growth for you as the individual.
This is yet to be decided however, there will most likely be recommendations of videos, books, summaries and articles to help you be more in the know before the event.
The Institute was a great event. Having attended that will have set the stage for success. This event is for today: the current operations within the Industry. Covid changed the game, no longer can we play checkers. Todays fitness world demands Chess – more strategic, more innovative, more holistic driven leadership.
Absolutely, you have already experienced the power of peers and what REX can do. Imagine a focused event that is almost like an acceleration of training and leadership development. In these 3 days you will be flooded with new ways of thinking, acting and believing. The connections with others you have not met will expand your learning and accelerate your growth. This is a can’t miss event.
Yes, the closest airports are HPN, LGA, JFK, and EWR. You can also take Amtrak to NYC and then MetroNorth to Croton-Harmon station (5 min from campus).
Absolutely. Please let us know your specific needs when registering, and we’ll ensure your experience is seamless.
Yes, if you’d like to extend your trip, contact us. Rooms are available Monday night which includes breakfast and lunch Tuesday. Thursday night’s hotel is included in the optional add-on in NYC.
We’ve got you covered! Please contact Julie@Rexroundtables.com
Yes, $100 cancellation fee will be charged if you have to cancel.
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Crotonville Conference Center
1 Old Albany Post Rd, Ossining, NY, 10562, United States
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