Future of Fitness

With a combined over 20 years of experience in the industry, and after training fitness professionals in over 10 countries around the world, Barry and Shay are here to help you learn the exact skillset that all of the top fitness instructors and business owners possess. Throughout the course of training thousands of instructors, and consulting with studios in multiple modalities globally, they have learned how to distill their knowledge and experience into actionable steps to help you go further in fitness.

Based in San Francisco, Aly Orady is a 20-year silicon valley veteran, engineer and serial entrepreneur. Aly started his career at Hewlett-Packard’s Computer Systems Laboratory designing super-computers, followed by technical leadership roles at a series of startups, including Kealia, Inc. (now Sun/Oracle). Armed with an M.S.E.E. from Stanford, and a B.Eng. from McMaster University, Aly founded Pano Logic where he served as the company’s Chief Technology Officer and oversaw core technology development, architecture, and patents. As Pano Logic’s founder, Aly also served on the board of directors and has filled a broad array of functional roles including product management, go-to-market planning, business development, and manufacturing operations. Aly’s technical expertise includes cloud, virtualization, enterprise management, networking, and computer architecture. In 2015, Aly went on to found Tonal, a stealth startup with an innovative approach the fitness. Stay tuned.

Amber Vilhauer is an online digital marketing expert who supports authors, speakers, and coaches to establish a powerful, integrated online presence that gets results and empowers them to make a difference in their industry. Since starting her agency, NGNG Enterprises (standing for No Guts No Glory) in 2007, she has spent her career impacting her community and building strong strategic alliances with industry leaders and game-changers across the web. She is the launch manager dozens of #1 bestselling books including those for Mark Victor Hansen, Brendon Burchard, Lisa Nichols, and Les Brown.

After 18 years of working with some of the biggest names in Fintech, including Thomson Financial and SS&C, Ian Mullane left corporate life as the COO of Sungard’s Asia Pacific business. Since then, he’s founded and grown a number of companies including Locowise.com, Vanda.fit and most recently, Keepme, an AI-powered membership retention tool.

Deacon Andrews is a dad first and foremost that loves being out in the mountains and chasing the stoke that comes along with both those things.

Sam Mathers is the Founder of Fitter Futures - 1 of only 3 Brand X Method Labs worldwide, specializing in youth functional fitness. They are the only functional fitness gym in the world that has been exclusively for YOUTH. She is also a member of the iF3 Youth Committee, looking at the design of a competition & participation pathway for youth in the sport of functional fitness. She was once a corporate lawyer and management consultant, but have followed her passion for coaching youth so she can live a more fulfilling life-changing life of others.

‘ Back surgery is your only option…’   This statement inspired Dr. Eric Goodman to overcome a seriously bad back. The severe, years-long debilitating lower back pain had been hanging over Dr. Goodman’s upcoming Chiropractic career. A year before graduation his pain hit and held its climax for several months. This was a maddening experience. After dedicating years of his life and all of his money to learn how the body worked, he was well-educated, yet stuck in daily pain with a diagnosis of severe Degenerative Joint Disease at the spine. Sympathetic doctors told him the only way to possibly relieve his pain was to undergo a painful back surgery: legitimate fusion of his lowest spine.

Positive Performance Training was founded in 2008 by Lindsey Wilson, a former collegiate and professional athlete who felt a strong call to help other athletes optimize their mindset and fulfill their potential. Today, the Positive Performance team has continued to provide athletes and teams with high-quality, easy-to-digest, complete mental training programs. In addition, Lindsey is the founder of the Mindset Coach Academy that certifies coaches in our proven mindset coaching system who want to make a massive impact and build a profitable business doing what they love.

Brian is the Content and Production Manager for the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). He oversees the creation of NASM's certification and continuing education courses. He's an accomplished fitness practitioner, product manager, author, and instructional designer with over 15 years’ experience creating best-in-class education programs in the health and fitness industry. Brian is a subject matter expert in health, wellness, sports performance, and fitness-related topics. He has earned two masters degrees (MS Exercise Science, MA Sport Management) and nearly a dozen fitness-related certifications/advanced specializations. Visit: http://briansutton123.wix.com/portfolio  

Dan is a graduate of Duke University where he played football and earned a BA in economics. He also earned an MBA from the Wharton School, after which he founded, built and sold a successful real estate investment and management firm. After selling his real estate company, Dan practiced as s professional photographer before discovering the concept of wearable resistance bands and founding WearBands.