| News & Know How | News Narendra Goidani Explores
‘The Path and Process of Excellence!’ Other keynote speakers, educational sessions highlight Asia Pacific Forum
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arendra Goidani, a trainer at Alma Mater, a corporate-consulting think tank with four offices in India, will present the closing keynote address next month at the 9th Annual IHRSA Asia-Pacific
Forum, which will be held November 14-17, in Mumbai. Goidani has 15 years of experience in the training and development field and focuses on helping people realize their full potential. His address is titled, “The Path and Process of Excellence!” Rajendra S. Sisodia, Ph.D., a professor of marketing and director
of the Center for Marketing Technology at Bentley College, in Waltham, Massachusetts, and author of Firms of Endearment, will deliver the opening keynote address. His subject will be “The New Realities for Business in the Age of Conscious Capitalism.” The Forum will offer six other educational sessions, including a
club-CEO panel discussion. Steven Renata, the director of global sales for Les Mills International, Inc., will present “When Group Fitness Goes Tribal” and “MANA—A Values-Based Approach to Leadership and Sustainability.” Casey Conrad, the president of Communication Consultants, will discuss “Creating a Dynamic Club Marketing Approach” and “Building a Successful Sales Team at Your Club.” And Paul Bedford, Ph.D., a researcher with the ReAim/ Leisure Database Company, will explore “Retention Fundamentals.” Forum attendees
will also have numerous opportunities to meet with leading industry suppliers during the event, as well as at a special sponsor showcase. Log on to www.ihrsa.
org/forum for more details or to register; and, if you sign up by October 15, you’ll save $50 on the onsite rate! —|
Narendra Goidani
9TH ANNUAL IHRSA ASIA-PACIFIC FORUM SPONSORS: Anytime Fitness; Biospace, Inc.; Cybex International, Inc.; Fitnessforce; FreeMotion Fitness; HOIST Fitness Systems; Johnson Health Tech Co., Ltd./ Matrix Fitness Systems; Les Mills International; Life Fitness; Polar Electro; and Precor. —|
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Short Takes | Augie Nieto Pens Second Book, Reciprocity Incorporated
Augie Nieto, the cofounder and former head of Life Fitness, has published his second book, Reciprocity Incorporated, which he describes as “the little business book of doing well by doing good.” With a forward by Lance Armstrong, the book is based on interviews that Nieto conducted with 30 leaders in a wide range of fields—from billionaire investor George Argyros, to Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks. Nieto, who is now
battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known, too, as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is also the founder of Augie’s Quest, an initiative to raise funds to help find a cure for ALS that, thus far, has raised over $23 million. His first book was Augie’s Quest: One Man’s Journey from Success to Significance. Both books are available at
www.amazon.com. —|
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Short Takes | Fitness-Equipment Sector Looking Up
The second-quarter results posted by three major fitness-equipment manufacturers suggest that the effects of the recession may finally be dissipating. Cybex International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYBI) reported a nominal drop in sales, from $27.8 million in Q2 2009 to $27.7 in Q2 2010; and a distinct improvement with respect to net loss, which dropped from $2.1 million for the period in ’09 to just $356,000 in ’10. The Life Fitness division of the Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) saw its sales climb by 17%, from $105 million in Q2 ’09 to $123.2 million in Q2 ’10, and its interna- tional sales rise by 39%. Its operating earnings for the period were $8.7 million, compared with $200,000 in Q2 ’09. And Amer Sports (NASDAQ: AMEAS), the Finnish corporate parent of Precor, reported that the net sales of its fitness division grew by 11%, from e42.4 million ($54.4 million) in ’09 to e47.1 million ($60.5 million) in ’10. —|
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