Group Fitness Coach

A highly skilled Group Fitness Manager is critical to the business’s bottom line, it will affect member retention and ultimately dollars through the door. A Group Fitness Manager who is a cut above the rest will be much more employable and have more choice of career path as their track record will speak for itself.

About Leisl

Leisl has been working in the fitness industry for 15 years, as a Group Fitness Instructor, Mentor, Group Fitness Manager/Coordinator/Team Leader.

She is currently Group Exercise Coordinator at Virgin Active Norwest managing a timetable of 230 classes a week and a team of 71 instructors.

Leisl’s passion is:

• coaching GFM’s/Coordinator’s to develop their emotional intelligence,
• giving them the skills to create high performance teams,
• helping them learn how to increase group ex penetration in their club and
• teaching them the ways they can boost member retention through use of all these skills.

Leisl is also an accomplished writer and presenter. Her work includes:

• Filex Presenter
• Australian Fitness Network Writer
• Fitness U Pro Trainer
• Motivational Speaker 

Leisl’s Track Record

In 2012 Macquarie University Sport had an annual GroupEX attendance of 78,000. Leisl took over the GFM role in June 2012 and 4 years later, annual GroupEX attendance was 117,000.

At Virgin Active the current GroupEX penetration is 56% and the GroupEX occupancy is 62%. This happened within three weeks of Leisl revamping the timetable, revitalising the team with more highly skilled instructors and renovating three studios. These are by far the highest GroupEX statistics the club has ever had since it opened 5 years ago.

Working with Leisl

Coaching is one on one with your GFM/Co-ordinator and it is done on site and off site over a period of weeks, as determined by each client’s needs.

Contacting Leisl

Leisl can be contacted on 0412 138 008 or via email on leislk@me.com