LA Fitness is the company that I am doing my mentorship with. LA Fitness is a nation wide fitness facility that has continued to grow since it was established back in the 1980s. LA Fitness gave me a full time position as an operations manager at the Grove City location which is one of the smallest locations in Columbus to start out with. I have enjoyed my time here so far and I have really learned a lot with my time here. I look forward to continuing my journey through the company.
I have since moved to the Powell LA Fitness location which is one of the biggest locations in Columbus, Ohio. This club requires a lot more work and responsibility throughout the day as there are more employees, more members, and more equipment that need to be managed. My boss and mentor thought it would be a great challenge for me to move to this location and take on the challenge of reviving a suffering club as they have been without an Operations Manager for quite some time. LA Fitness was founded back in 1984 by Chin Yi who is the Chairman & CEO and Louis Welch who is the President & CEO. The first ever club was based in Los Angelas, California. They then continued to expand by purchasing more fitness clubs that were not meeting the financial expectations. They quickly became very successful in Southern California and soon began to expand to states on the east side of the United States, Georgia in particular where they currently have 26 clubs. There are now over 600 clubs in the entire U.S and also clubs in Canada. LA Fitness still remains a privately owned company. |