Health Club Management

What Health Club Management does

Health Club Management is a privately held, Oregon-based B2B consulting firm founded in 1983 by Lou Quint that provides planning, feasibility, design, and operations management services for fitness centers, athletic clubs, day spas, and wellness facilities across the United States. The firm operates two brands: Health Club Management (HCM), which delivers core consulting and management services including corporate wellness, health club analysis, planning/design, project management, spa and resort management, business training, and gym/franchisee coaching; and Quint Essential Consulting (QEC), a wholly owned subsidiary focused on pre-development, construction, and post-development services for ground-up projects. The technology backbone is an analytical consulting stack combining feasibility studies, demographic profiling (a proprietary 15-tapestries and 68-lifestyles segmentation), drive-time analysis, market saturation studies, and competitive mapping, with no software product, API, or AI/ML components disclosed.

The firm generates revenue through project-based consulting fees and ongoing management retainers, with a free 1-hour initial consultation as the entry point and quote-based proposals thereafter. Customers span fitness club owners and operators, residential developers, hotels and resorts, corporate accounts, franchisees, community/non-profit projects, and collegiate recreation facilities, with documented outcomes including breakeven within 120 days, profitability within 180 days, and 330 memberships in the first month at a community center. Health Club Management is founder-owned with no external institutional investors or funding rounds disclosed, runs a distributed team of 51–100 people across 20+ states covering all four US time zones, and markets primarily through a founder-authored blog, client testimonials, direct phone outreach, and website contact forms.

Name

Health Club Management

Legal name

Health Club Management, LLC.

Website

https://healthclubmanagement.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Health Club Management is a Beaverton, Oregon-based B2B consulting firm providing feasibility studies, design, project management, and operations support for fitness centers, spas, and wellness facilities across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

NAICS

Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (71394)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Wellness Program Design & Accountability Coaching (HSADAGAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Corporate/Workplace Wellness Coaching (HSADAGAL)

Keywords

• Fitness center consulting
• Health club management
• Spa resort management
• Feasibility study services
• Corporate wellness programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Beaverton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Consulting and Management Services: Health Club Management provides comprehensive consulting services including feasibility studies, design consultation, project management, and ongoing operational management for health clubs, fitness centers, day spas, and wellness facilities. Revenue is generated through project-based consulting fees and ongoing management retainer arrangements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Health Club Management provides B2B consulting services for fitness centers, athletic clubs, spas, and wellness facilities. Core offerings include feasibility studies, brand strategy, planning, design, project management, and ongoing operational management. The company also operates a sub-brand, Quint Essential Consulting (QEC), which provides pre-development, construction, and post-development services for ground-up projects.

Product overview

Health Club Management operates as a consulting firm offering two primary service brands: Health Club Management (HCM) provides consulting and operational management services including corporate wellness, health club analysis, planning/design, project management, spa/resort management, business training, and gym/franchisee coaching. Quint Essential Consulting (QEC) provides pre-development through post-development services for ground-up projects including feasibility studies, site selection, and economic impact reports. The company serves for-profit, non-profit, community, and collegiate fitness projects across the United States with operations in all four time zones.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Quint Essential Consulting (QEC): A subsidiary providing Pre-development, Construction, and Post-development services for ground-up projects including feasibility studies, planning, design, and development.

Products and services

• Corporate Wellness Corporate health club wellness services including workplace fitness center design and customization, designed to reduce employee medical costs and increase morale and performance. Targeted at companies seeking on-site fitness facilities for employee wellness programs.
• Health Club Analysis Analysis and forecasting services covering investment assessments, site selection, staffing, sales and marketing, customer service, and facilities management for health club and fitness business clients.
• Planning, Design and Development Brand strategy development, market analysis, goal setting, and procedures/processes development for efficient business operations in health club settings.
• Project Development Management Project management services including planning, organizing, motivating, budgeting and controlling club resources across five categories: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing.
• Spa and Resort Management Daily operational management, benchmarking, strategic and financial planning, administrative support, marketing, and customer service training for health spas and resorts.
• Business Training Operational training including budgeting techniques, marketing strategies, vendor vetting, employee hiring and maintaining, market demographics, and operations manuals for health and fitness businesses.
• Gym and Franchisee Coaching Business coaching services covering budgeting, profit/loss analysis, hiring/firing, programming for profit, membership sales/retention, profit center development, and strategic partnerships for gym operators and franchisees.
• Quint Essential Consulting (QEC) Pre-development, construction, and post-development services for ground-up projects including feasibility studies, site selection analysis, planning, design, project management, and economic impact reports.

Quantifiable outcome

• Clients achieving break-even within 120 days of opening/engagement
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Trilogy Spa Holdings: Third-party spa management company serving hotels, resorts, and day spas — directly comparable to HCM's Spa & Resort Management service offering.
• ClubIntel: A research and consulting firm specializing in the fitness industry, providing benchmarking, consumer insights, and operational consulting to health club operators — directly comparable to HCM's feasibility and business-turnaround services.
• WTS International: Provides spa, fitness, and recreation management and consulting for hotels, resorts, and corporate clients — closely aligned with HCM's spa/resort management and corporate wellness service lines.
• Active Wellness: Operates and manages corporate, hotel, and residential fitness centers on behalf of owners — overlapping with HCM's facility management and corporate wellness offerings.

Broad incumbents

• ABC Fitness Solutions: Leading fitness club management software and services platform serving thousands of gyms — a broader incumbent whose club-management software competes indirectly with HCM's operations management engagements.
• Daxko: Enterprise software and services provider for fitness, wellness, and community centers — adjacent incumbent offering operations technology that overlaps HCM's operations-management scope.
• Motionsoft: Provides billing, scheduling, and member-management software for fitness clubs and boutique studios — adjacent technology incumbent competing for the same operator wallet as HCM's consulting engagements.
• Jonas Fitness (Jonas Software): Club-management software provider for health and fitness facilities — incumbent whose turnkey software solutions can substitute for parts of HCM's operational management scope.

Others

• Health & Fitness Association (formerly IHRSA): Trade association for the fitness industry — adjacent ecosystem player that influences buyer purchasing decisions and competes indirectly for fitness-industry thought-leadership mindshare.

Regional players

• Rizzieri: Salon and spa consulting/management firm — comparable professional-services peer in the adjacent beauty/spa segment where HCM also operates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/healthclubmanagementinc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/health-club-management-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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