Health Club Fitness Expert Witness

Summary

Expert is the well-known founder and president of Fitness Management USA, Inc., a management consulting and turnaround firm specializing in new gym start up, fitness club sales and
gym troubleshooting for the fitness and health club industry. Expert understands the struggles of owning a gym or starting a new gym. Expert solves this problem by helping gym owners shorten the learning curve and improving bottom-line profitability.

Experience

Fitness Management
President
1989 – Present (33 years)
Expert is the well-known founder and president of Fitness Management USA, Inc., a management consulting and turnaround firm specializing in the fitness and health club industry.

With over 25 years of experience owning, operating and managing clubs of all sizes, Expert lectures and delivers seminars and workshops across the country on the practical skills required to successfully build teamwork and market fitness programs and products.

Since forming Fitness Management, Expert has been turning health clubs around at an amazing rate and garnering a reputation as a producer of change…a sharp-eyed troubleshooter, a brilliant sales trainer, and a motivator. Fitness Management provides programs that show measurable results and Jim’s team is proud of their ability to glean profit from every square foot of a client’s investment.

Body By Eden, Inc.

President
January 1994 – August 1998 (4 years 8 months) Wichita, Kansas based women’s only health club

International Athletic Club Management, Inc.
President
March 1988 – August 1995 (7 years 6 months) Management consulting firm

Mademoiselle Figure & Fitness Center
President
December 1980 – March 1988 (7 years 4 months) Women’s only health club chain.

KC Fitness Center
Manager
February 1975 – March 1980 (5 years 2 months)
Hired, trained and developed sales staff. In charge of new membership sales production.

Education

Longview College
Business Administration and Management, General • (1973 – 1976)