Скачать или смотреть One Take CEO Interview: Take Two with Chuck Runyon

(Segments below.) One year after his first One Take interview, Chuck Runyon returns to discuss how Self Esteem Brands (SEB) weathered the pandemic; why a Gyms Act needs to be passed to help the industry recover; whether employees will be returning to work at the corporate office; how the company was able to make its largest acquisition during a pandemic; and why health and fitness should be considered essential businesses and personal priorities.

Runyon is co-founder and CEO of Self Esteem Brands (SEB), a global collection of health improvement and fitness-related companies including Anytime Fitness, The Bar Method, Base Camp, Wax the City and as of this June, Stronger U, a digital, personalized nutrition-based health coaching services brand. SEB was founded in 2002 and for several consecutive years ranked as the world’s fastest growing franchise. Today it serves millions of people in 40 countries. More about Self Esteem Brands: https://www.sebrands.com

Segments:
01:11 Skip intro; what hybrid-work is like for Runyon and his employees.
02:26 Will employees be required to come back to work in the office and if so, how many days of the week?
03:04 How the pandemic affected customers and franchisees, and how SEB serves them.
05:17 How SEB headquarters employees in the Twin Cities helped Franchisees with hyper-local challenges this past year.
06:59 The three priorities SEB focused on since the pandemic started.
08:23 What can be done to help franchisees cover increased rent costs once abatements or deferrals end? And what is the Gyms Act?
10:21 How does buying another company, Stronger U, fit into all of this?
11:39 How many franchisees did SEB lose during the pandemic?
12:48 How was SEB affected financially due to the pandemic?
14:06 How was SEB able to make its largest acquisition while working through all the operational and financial challenges caused by COVID-19?
14:59 How much of this was possible because of the investors you have backing SEB?
15:52 Why health care needs to be thought of as an essential service.
17:20 What’s the healthiest country, and how do we compare?
18:50 What’s your greatest challenge heading into 2022?
20:02 When will Stronger U products and services be available at Anytime Fitness locations?
20:41 How leaders focused on the wrong side of the issue this past year: sickness rather than healthiness, and why this needs to change.
21:49 Are we in an unhealthiness pandemic, or nearing one?

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About One Take CEO Interviews: In each episode, one CEO shares his or her take on leading through myriad challenges ranging from Covid-19 to attracting and retaining great talent. Each interview is recorded in one take with no edits, and runs 10 to 20 minutes in duration. The interviews are produced by award-winning journalist Dale Kurschner (  / dalekurschner  , who today serves as a management consultant with Platinum Group, Minnesota's most experienced firm helping business owners and leaders with extreme challenges ranging from rapid growth and acquisitions, to turnarounds and divestitures (https://www.theplatinumgrp.com).

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