Wendy Coulson - CEO of Les Mills for UK & Ireland
Modern Woman
English - May 18, 2020 18:00 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBBusiness women businesswoman womeninbusiness workplaceinspiration womenintheworkplace inspiringwomen business entrepreneur Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
‘I do believe you can be anything you want to be. Did I ever think I’d become CEO of Les Mills UK? No. But did I aspire to making a difference and dig in, work hard? Yes. I’ve failed many times, but I think you fail fast and then move on, which is what you need to do.’
Wendy Coulson is CEO of Les Mills for the UK and Ireland. She started her career in banking back in the 1980's, working there for 10 years as a bank manager but in her spare time loved fitness and so started teaching classes and decided to follow her passion and make a career change.
It’s a long road from teaching fitness classes to the top of the corporate tree. Today, she is CEO for Les Mills UK and Ireland, though the company is actually in 100 countries globally, with an instructor base, globally of approximately 140,000 people and 20,000 clubs. She heads up a team of around 75 comprising of those working on the field with club partners, trainer teams and marketing/finance specialists.
Here she shares with us how she swapped banking for keeping the nation fit, and how resilience is key to scaling the business heights.