Who Are We?

Justin first started as a gym instructor at HowzatFitness World, in Newcastle in 1988. In 1991, he started his own Personal Training business called The Physical Epitome, which he sold in 1992.

He worked at Howzatfor 3 years whilst completing his Bachelor of Education majoring in Physical and Health Education at Newcastle University. Studying often took a back seat, as he worked in the gym, played first grade rugby union and was a major figure in the politics within the University.

On graduation, Justin continued his career in thefitness industrywith Jamie Hayes at Body Express. After working for free for 2 weeks to secure a position, Justin began as a gym instructor. He quickly moved into sales and joint management until finally managing his own BodyExpress health club at BondiBeach.

In 1994, Justin and his parents opened Active Fitness Centre. The club was 1100m2 fitness only facility with added services including crèche, massage, solarium, personal training, physiotherapist and pilatesstudio. In 2001, Justin opened his second club a 300m2 facility called Active Health Club.

In 2002, Active Fitness Centre was sold to Fitness First.This was the first Australian club to be sold to Australia's largest chain. In 2008, Active Health Club was sold after 7 years of operation and growth to more than 1200 members. Justin turned his attention to Active Management consulting services, speaking engagements...and starting a family.

Stacey Hurley, Mystery Shopper Captain

Stacey began in our industry in 2000 on the gym floor and as an aerobics instructor and later included some reception shifts and membership consulting.  Stacey then joined Justin at Active Fitness Centre as a membership consultant.

Stacey has worked at a Corporate level, selling and delivering corporate wellness with a team of professionals.

With over a decade experience selling memberships and being sold memberships, Stacey knows what works and what doesn’t! This makes her the ideal leader of our mystery shopper team as she can identify when your team have got it, nearly got it and still require training! In fact, with Stacey's skill set she can identify exactly what is needed to train your team.

"I really enjoy my role and love to help clubs get more people in their community exercising."

Chantal Brodrick, Dean of PTBizCoach

Chantal established her first business, energyinXs, in 2008. Her goal was the educating of her clients on how to maximise their energy through exercise and nutrition. Today energyinXsboasts a healthy personal training and corporate client base across Sydney's North Shore. And in 2011 Chantal will released her first DVD educating people on how to lose weight through making healthy lifestyle choices.

Prior to fitness, Chantal worked in the media industry for over 10 years in various roles including National Sales Manager atPacific Publications and Marketing Communications Manager at Adstream.

She joins the Active Management Team as the Dean of the Masters of Business for Personal Trainers Program with a strong passion to help personal trainers run profitable businesses.

Alicia Boulton, Organising Captain

Alicia has close to 20 years experience working in Office Management, Customer Service and Administration fields for various small businesses.  She brings extensive experience in Office Management to the Active team which enables us to get on with what we do best!  Whether it be our systems and procedures, administration, co-ordination of our events or customer service, she has it ALL covered.

As the customer, you need to know that what we say we will deliver we do. And Alicia's role is to support our team and ensure you do.