2024 CONVENTION SCHEDULE

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 8

  • 2:30 - 5:30 PM - Registration

  • 5:30 - 7:30 PM - Welcome Event

MONDAY

DECEMBER 9

  • 6:00 - 6:45 AM - Brand Workout

  • 7:00 - 7:45 AM - Brand Workout

  • 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM - Vendor Village & Cafe Hub Open

  • 9:30 - 11:00 AM - Welcome Address & Keynote Speaker

  • 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Grab N’ Go Lunch in Vendor Village

  • 2:00 - 5:00 PM - Brand Presentations

  • 5:00 - 7:00 PM - Vendor Happy Hour in Vendor Village

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 10

  • 6:00 - 6:45 AM - Brand Workout

  • 7:00 - 7:45 AM - Brand Workout

  • 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM - Vendor Village & Cafe Hub Open

  • 8:30 - 9:15 AM - Brand Breakout 1

  • 9:15 - 10:15 AM - Designated Vendor Village Time

  • 10:30 - 11:15 AM - Brand Breakout 2

  • 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - Brand Breakout 3

  • 12:15 - 1:30 PM - Grab N’ Go Lunch in Vendor Village

  • 1:30 - 2:15 PM - Designated Vendor Village Time

  • 2:30 - 3:15 PM - Brand Breakout 4

  • 3:30 - 4:15 PM - Brand Breakout 5

  • 4:30 - 5:15 PM - Brand Breakout 6

  • 8:30 - 11:30 PM - Closing Party

Breakout Sessions

Digital Marketing: Harnessing an Omnichannel Digital Strategy & AI Prompts to optimize your Local Studio Marketing - Join Franchise Ramp as they walk through optimizing your local digital strategy into 2025, adapting to technological innovations in AI and leave the meeting with 5 tactical AI prompts to create local marketing efficiencies on social media.

Weekly Revenue Health Check: A Quick Guide to Sales and Team Performance - Learn how to streamline studio performance monitoring with a simple, yet powerful, 30-minute reporting checklist. Designed to inspect the health of key sales process KPIs, revenue flow, and revenue generated by team members, this tool helps identify areas for growth and positive reinforcement. By focusing on maximizing your return on ad spend and payroll investments, you’ll gain actionable insights to elevate your studio's performance.

Connecting with Four Consumer Types to Increase New Membership Sales - In this session, discover how understanding four key consumer personalities can transform the results produced by the sales process. Learn to identify key traits in your prospects, build genuine trust, and confidently guide conversations toward successful outcomes. You'll also dive into your own personality style, gaining insight into how your communication habits impact interactions and influence sales. Walk away with practical, personalized strategies that will deepen relationships with prospects and increase new membership sales.

Leadership & Executive Growth Panel - In this interactive panel of top performing franchisees, you'll learn how they have personally cultivated the executive skills, mindset, organizational structure and strategies needed to drive success in their studios. Ask pressing questions and gain practical advice on overcoming challenges, improving operational efficiency, and fostering a high-performing team culture. Walk away from this session with vaulable takeaways from the best.

Peer Connection - Join fellow franchise partners within your pricing tier for an interactive workshop and networking session to foster meaningful conversations around studio performance, best practices, and growth strategies. Award-winning franchisees from each tier will be on hand to share their insights and successes, and you'll have the chance to engage with them directly. To help guide the session, you'll receive a fun networking bingo card, encouraging you to meet new franchisees, share ideas, and discover actionable tips for studio success. Whether you're looking to refine your operations or explore new strategies, this session will spark collaboration and help you form valuable relationships with those who understand your market. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from peers and build a network that can support you long after the convention wraps!

Investing in Quality Assurrance to Elevate Team Culture and Member Experience - Create the quintessential quality experience at your studio for both your team and members alike. Through reimagining the Lead Teacher role around a focus team support and consistent engagement, plus leveraging survey tools to glean insights direct from members, this session is designed to help you implement simple and effective tactics to ensure quality at the core of your business: the class experience.

Cultivating a Studio Environment for Successful Recruitment - Refresh and reframe best practices to find and hire talent for every role in your studio. In this session, you will develop a clearer understanding of how your business attracts talent, and what you can do to recruit the right fit for each role on your studio team, while simultaneously honing your hiring tactics to boost team retention.

Pure Talks - This full network general session will highlight powerful insights and perspectives from 4 peers presenters. From owner experience to leadership and team management to retail best practices, each speaker will communicate a big idea to motivate and inspire your mindset.

Digital Agency Panel - Hear from our digital agency vendors on how to optimize your 2025 digital ad investments and hear about the platforms and technology that will be top of mind in 2025.

Local Studio Marketing Panel - Hear from a live franchisee panel discussion on generating leads, converting leads, and building community including hearing how studios work with their local digital agencies to maximize their paid advertisements, how they garner more referral leads, and how they integrate this into an omnichannel strategy.

Visual Merchandising: Bringing Retail to Life - Explore the art & science of retail product presentation to transform your retail boutique to excite & inspire.

Digital Marketing 101: CAP or Self Managed - Hosted by Comma 8: Using a Certified Agency Partner or Running Your Own Self Managed Campaigns. How to stay compliant and get connected properly.

XPONENTIAL BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Insights in Real Estate, Construction & Supply Chain - Market trends and strategic responses to maximize ROI In Real Estate, Construction, And Vendor Supply Chain.

MarTech: Building the Studio of Tomorrow - Harness Xponential’s tech roadmap to customize your studio’s offerings and optimize return on investment through new features while reviewing '24 performance including benchmarks of top-performing studios.

Finance 101 - Levers for Profitability - Learn about all the available levers to pull in your studios to increase your business' overall profitability.

Be the Boss: How to Lead and Manage your Dream Team - The health of your studio is dependent on your team and your team is a direct reflection of you. Learn leadership skills, hiring best practices, onboarding ideas, training techniques, and enhanced communication skills to properly manage and inspire your team from hiring and beyond.