The Coaches Conference 2025  
28–29 November · Manchester

Two days to level up your business & coaching with applied learning, connection, and inspiration.

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For nearly 10 years we drove across 300+ gyms, mentoring coaches face-to-face. That’s our roots — and why we host this conference every year. To strip away distractions, bring coaches together, and give you the space to focus fully on growing your business and coaching.
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CONNECT AND NETWORK

The industry can be a lonely place, with so much conflicting information on social media, it's hard to know who to trust. Over the last 9 years of putting on in person events, one highly valued element of the events are being able to connect and network with people you respect, trust and have aligned values with. 

EDUCATE & UPSKILL

Knowing that you "need" to do something, and understanding how are miles apart. We have taken some of the key areas that are challenging coaches right now, and educate in how and more importantly what those first few steps look like. So no more procrastinating and feeling overwhelmed.

MOTIVATED AND INSPIRED

We aim for you to leave the Coaches Conference full of motivation and inspired to take 2025 by the scruff of the neck and achieve great things for yourself. We have spent 10's of thousands between us previous on courses and seminars before and the reality is that there was just so much information we didn't know where to start and thus leaving us still stuck. So this is why inspiring you with real time examples from people doing what you to do right now is included in our speaker line up

JOIN US FOR THE 4th ANNUAL COACHES CONFERENCE IN MANCHESTER! 

We have been running events for coaches the last 10 years with a simple aim.
• To fill the gaps in knowledge and business acumen to give coaches the business they want and deserve.
• To inspire coaches to be better, live and work in alignment with their values and mission.
• To provide a safe inspiring environment to connect and network with other coaches.

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Friday 28th November  

“Levelling you up as a business owner”.

Business/marketing/project management/systems etc are not things we come into the industry with the knowledge of. So, learning on the job is incredibly challenging for anyone.
Saturday 29th November

“The complete art of coaching day”.

If we can coach, we can retain. If we can retain, we deliver results that are long lasting, which results in increased security, revenue, and walking talking advertisements. 

Typically, when you go to events you sit down listen to a lot of information and apply 10% of it. We’ve spent thousands on events and courses and want to make this about YOU.
From Coach to CEO: Leading Your Fitness Business with Vision, Systems, and Impact.
 
What to Expect / Description
Most fitness professionals start as great coaches, but to truly grow, you must evolve into a leader. In this keynote, I’ll shares the mindset shifts and strategic systems that transformed me from coach to CEO. Learn how to lead your business with clarity, build a business and team true to your vision and values and create a business that works for you, not the other way around. Expect real talk, practical tools, and a dose of inspiration to step into the leader your business needs next.


ROSS 
Blind spots & Bottlenecks
You can’t get to the new place with the old map
 
When high performers plateau, it's rarely about ability. It's about invisible limitations. Success creates comfort with familiar approaches, making it harder to spot when strategies become constraints. The result? Doubling down on what once worked, even if it stops delivering. This is the hidden paradox: the very talents that elevated you can become the ceiling that contains you.
 
In this session, Performance Psychologist Chris Bodman explores why ambitious minds get trapped in their patterns and reveals the psychological shifts needed to break through. You'll discover how to identify your hidden performance barriers and develop the mental skills to transcend them.

Chris
How to Build a Personal Brand 

Teaching students how to become a savage social media manager in 2025. We’ll cover how to plan, film, edit and create content consistently without burning out. During the session we’ll also complete a practical task, planning out the next 2 weeks of content and putting what we’ve learned into action.
Simon
Typically, when you go to events you sit down listen to a lot of information and apply 10% of it. We’ve spent thousands on events and courses and want to make this about YOU. 

This is why the format of the two days is going to guided by the 3 objectives.   

CONNECTION

One of the biggest pieces of feedback from past events has been the value in connecting with peers. The opportunity to pick each other’s brains, to collaborate on ideas and generally feel like you not alone in the industry. We will be facilitating this throughout the two days and especially through our unique “Roundtable Mastermind” sessions … which I absolutely can’t wait for. 

INSPIRATION AND MOTIVATION

A huge thing for us is not just to through information at you, but for it to be delivered in an inspiring and relatable way. This is going to come from real applied stories, from gym owners to online coaches and I think you’ll buzz off this. 

APPLIED LEARNING! 

One of our core values is applied education. So, you can take the information and apply it right there and then. We have taken the most sort after gaps coaches currently face and put them into workshops and sessions, so you not only learn but you know how to apply everything directly to you, your business and your clients. From being set up financially right the way through to improving your coaching techniques with clients. 

Meet the Team of Presenters

Nik Hanley

ptma founder  - business coach
Nik's career has spanned over 25 years in the fitness space. From coaching 1-1 general pop, to sports specific in small group settings. All the way to operating gyms, and developing support and development programs for personal trainers and coaches. 

Ant Park 

Ptma founder - business coach 
Ant is a through and through coach, from working in commercial facilities operating his own facility ... and developing the UK's largest development practice with Nik for Puregym personal trainers. Co-founder of PTMA. 

Simon Booth 

Builder of personal brands, Simon has been in the fitness space for 14 years. First as a coach, then building a fitness videography business, and now as a personal brand specialist helping creators grow with social media content.

Sky Hill

PTMA Business coach, nutritionist
I'm Sky: head coach & nutritionist at @oursocieatycoaching. l've been coaching on and off the gym floor for 10 years now alongside becoming a Nutritionist six years ago.@oursocieatycoaching includes three main pillars of service: online training & nutrition coaching, nutrition consultancy and mentoring for coaches & public speaking.

Chris Bodman

Performance Psychologist 
Chris Bodman is a Chartered Performance Psychologist who has guided Olympians to podiums and entrepreneurs to breakthroughs. Former S&C coach turned mind coach, he specialises in the psychology of excellence. Chris founded LMNTARY Performance and writes the Mindset Matters newsletter, helping high-achievers break through internal barriers that keep them stuck.

Alice Hadden

NLP Mindset Coach 
Alice Hadden is an NLP Mindset Expert who helps ambitious individuals rebuild success from the inside out. Her work goes beyond quick fixes and surface-level strategy, diving deep into the subconscious to shift limiting beliefs, regulate the nervous system, and align internal identity with the external results you want to create. Alice specializes in helping high achievers break free from self-sabotaging patterns, people-pleasing, and fear-driven decision-making - to expand their capacity, step fully into their potential, and create sustainable success that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.

Ross Colquhoun

Founder and owner of the TTC
I'm not a theory merchant. I'm a real world business owner who leads people, solves problems, and builds systems that work. I know you coaches attending are likely stuck in "operator mode", coaching all day, struggling to think like the CEO of your business. You want to grow, but you're overwhelmed.

Sacha Lucas

PFCA
Online coach, educator, mentor. Three paths I never expected to take - but im so glad I did. Over the past 10 years, ive built a sustainable, profitable coaching business from home ... and im just getting started. 

My mission is to help fitness coaches realise they run the show. Their businesses their own, and with right approach, they can change lives. Coaching can be lifelong career - if you think long term and keep improving.

Craig Massey 

PFCA
Craig began coaching in 2008, after transitioning from a career in engineering.

Since then, he has owned three gyms, spent a decade within the OPEX system as student, mentor, and license holder, and worked with countless clients whose journeys have shaped his own. Through it all, education has remained the nucleus of his craft—anchoring his belief that every coach is, above all else, a perpetual learner.

With that perspective, and an awareness of the responsibility that comes with experience, Craig now leads the PFCA.

What our attendee's say about the coaches conference

Honestly from the time I was there it was amazing. Ant greeted me as soon as I walked into the room and made me feel welcome. There was a range of speakers all discussing different aspects of being a PT which is good as it wasn’t repetitive. I felt like I learned a lot and would 100% attend again if you do another one. Thank you for having us all
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Loved that you both came round the room while we were working and made everyone feel seen and heard. The workbook is epic.
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The conference re-entered my perspective on what's possible for my business, and having the notes means I can refer back to the knowledge.
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Frequently asked questions

Where and when is it? 

We are hosting the Coaches Conference in Manchester on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th November 2025. 

Address; 
MalMaison Manchester Piccadilly
1-3 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 3AQ

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What are the start and finish times?  

Friday will start at 10am to give people coming from afar to get there with plenty of time and finishes approx 5:30pm

Saturday will start at 9:30am and finish approx 5:30/6pm. 

We will have plenty of breaks throughout the day, and an hour for lunch. 

Lunch is not provided, but plenty of places nearby to get something nice to fuel the day for you. 

I'm nervous about coming alone 

We how daunting it can be to walk in somewhere not knowing anyone. Rest assured that we will be there to meet you, and you'll meet some amazing people over the two days too. Also we keep the total capacity of the conference low, so you don't get lost int he crowd. I can guarantee by lunch time on the first day you will have met some really cool people and feel at ease. 

What will get from attending 

You'll leave the two days fired up, excited to get back to work. Know exactly what you're working towards in the new year and having a huge tool belt of techniques, knowledge and fresh experiences to both affect you current clients, and the future clients you know have clarity of bringing into the business.

Where to stay? 

Manchester has a ton of variety of accommodation available at all different price points. 

The very first place we would suggest going is HERE to find and book accommodation. 

Where can in park? 

There are a huge amount of car parks within a five minute walk of the location. Here is one which is close by HERE

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