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Les Mills World of Fitness, CHRISTCHURCH:

Group Fitness Manager
 June 1999 - September 2001

Tasks: As Group Fitness Manager of Les Mills Christchurch, I was responsible to the General Manager for all financial planning and control within my department, personnel (recruitment, employment, training and performance management), internal marketing, rostering, membership satisfaction and facility management.

Some data about the Les Mills Christchurch group fitness department
  • Staff complement: 45 instructors and 15 trainees
  • Classes: 136 per week, in 6 studios, across two centres and involving an average of 3,500 participants.
  • Les Mills Christchurch is part of the Les Mills International franchise for Group Fitness. Christchurch attendance figures measure amongst the best in the world in both total volume and objective quality standards.
  • Internally measured for customer satisfaction
Canterbury Student Broadcasting Limited, CHRISTCHURCH:

rdu staff meeting
[a typical rdu staff meeting scene]

  • General Manager
    October 1993 - March 1998

    Tasks: As General Manager of Canterbury Student Broadcasting Limited, I was responsible to the board of directors for all financial planning and control, personnel (employment, training and performance management), strategic planning, innovation and day to day operations.

    CSBL operated "rdu", the Christchurch member of "b.net"; the NZ Student Radio Network; "Volume Magazine", a free Christchurch community and culture publication and the "alternate" website.

    In the four years of my tenure at CSBL, the company:
    • Showed a continued operating surplus (subsidy-free for the first time in it's 23 years of existence)
    • Increased it's total turnover by 100%
    • Established many new projects and initiatives including the highly successful U-Card radio subscriber card, Volume Magazine, alternate website and Hifibre local music CD compilation.
    In this time I was instrumental in the establishment of the b.net as a market brand and as a modern radio networking concept.

    Employment history continues here..