Jamie Hayes     Franchisee Support and Marketing

Ellen Hayes Product Development and Supply

Who is Healthy Inspirations?

Healthy Inspirations is made up of a team of passionate and dedicated people. Here are just a few of the people behind the Healthy Inspirations franchise system in Australia and New Zealand:

Executive Directors - Jamie and Ellen Hayes

Jamie and Ellen Hayes are regarded as pioneers of the Australian fitness industry, with Ellen becoming the first instructor in NSW to receive formal accreditation and Jamie receiving the first ever Australian National Fitness Leader of the Year award.

Jamie later became a fitness educator, training instructors across Australia and Asia for The Australian Council for Health Physical Education and Recreation and was a founding executive member of the Fitness Industry Association of NSW and the NSW Fitness Advisory Council.

They both started in the fitness industry in the seventies as instuctors. In 1981 Jamie opened his first fitness club and in 1984 they opened a fitness centre together. They then opened four more clubs in Sydney.

Director - Greg Hurst

Passions: Helping his kids blossom, seeking innovations that add value to life and creating organisations that make a difference.

Background: Greg Hurst has 20+ years of experience in the health and fitness industry and has played an integral role in pioneering national and global developments.

His past and present positions include:

Board Member and retired CEO, Zest Health Clubs
Board member and retired Managing Director, Australian Fitness Network
Board Member and retired CEO, Les Mills International
Past President and co-founder, Federation for International Sport Aerobics and Fitness (FISAF)
Past Chairman, Sport and Recreation Training Australia
Past President, Fitness Australia
Past Chairman, Australian Fitness Accreditation Council

Greg has co-authored industry texts such as Aerobic Instructor Handbook and The Fitness Leader Bible.

He has written numerous articles for industry journals and has been a popular speaker at national and international conferences on a wide variety of technical and business issues. Greg has attained other notable achievements including:

• Inaugural recipient of the Fitness Industry Achievement Award from Fitness Australia.
• 1984 Australian Aerobic Champion
• Master trainer responsible for the launch of Step Reebok, Asia Pacific
• Representing Australia in slalom and white water canoeing at World and Commonwealth Championships

2001 - The first Healthy Inspirations opens

The first Health Inspirations was opened in 2001 at Kenmore Queensland. This remains a company-owned (franchisor-owned) centre. The unique aspect of the business was that it was designed to deliver lasting weight loss for women with a combination of healthy diet, high-frequency face-to-face diet coaching and supervised exercise... all under one roof, in a comfortable women's only centre. The medical literature around the world is now supporting this combination approach as being the best way for effective lasting weight control.

To ensure that every aspect of the program was at the cutting edge of dietary science, weight loss knowledge and promoted good health, Jamie and Ellen assembled a team of three of Australia 's leading weight loss dietitians, Jill MacGregor, Matt O'Neill and Trudy Williams to oversee the program in Australia.

Our task is to work with you to see if Healthy Inspirations is right for you and if you are right for Healthy Inspirations. This is a process of mutual discovery. We want to provide you with all the information to make a good decision about the business.

Once you make that decision we have a huge range of support services and processes to help you start your business properly and to increase your chances of success.

The business does take some hard work, especially in the first year. We look for people with local knowledge and connections, and the willingness to get outside and promote their business to the local community. The other thing we look for are people who are passionate about living a healthy lifestyle and helping others achieve this as well.

We're very community minded. We care about preventive health and especially preventing childhood inactivity and obesity. If you share some of these passions, and you are keen to work hard to create your own successful business, we look forward to working with you.

We often get asked by the male partner "What are the roles for a male within this business that services women?" The answer is simple as it depends upon where your talents and energies lie. If your have a flair for marketing, most of that happens outside the four walls of the centre. If you're a numbers guy, then somebody has to look after the accounts, banking and payroll. If your good with your hands, you can help in building the centre and keeping the centre and the equipment in ship shape order.

This business is a partnership of energies, between the franchisees, their team and us.

Please make a list of questions. We have prepared some questions for you as sometimes people simply don't know what to ask.

I look forward to meeting you on the phone, by email and in person. Call us anytime on 07 3177 0842.