Mr. Chris Head of C Leisure Pty Ltd established his company in late 2002 to provide management and planning advice to the sports and leisure industry.  Chris has spent all his working life involved in the management and planning of sports and leisure projects. Since inception, C Leisure has been involved with and completed over 70 projects for various clients. Please see Project Experience  for more detail.

 

Previously General Manager of one of the largest leisure venue and event management organizations in Australia, Chris has built a wealth of knowledge in the industry managing, planning and developing leisure projects for clients across Australia.  Chris has been involved in every aspect of the business from the day-to-day operations to the strategic planning level.  He has been responsible for over $140 million worth of leisure related assets, a combined operating turnover of $24 million involving 3 million customers and 900 staff on an annual basis.

 

 

 

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Neil has had over thirty-two years of experience in the sport, recreation and leisure industry in Australia.  His broad range of experience and positions include youth worker, sports and leisure centre manager, department manager, trainer, internal consultant, national operations manager, group general manager and acting Chief Executive Officer of a national leisure company.

 

He has directly managed 4 major community leisure facilities each providing a range of community based sport and leisure activities for over 7,000 people per week and an annual turnover of $2,000,000.  Later appointed National Group Operations Manager, Neil was responsible for the performance of 20 contracts (leisure facilities) in NSW, Vic and NSW.

 

Between 1990 and 2003, he helped design and deliver a very successful sport and recreation facility management training course in all states of Australia and in three SE Asian countries, the latter being on behalf of the Australian Sports Commission.

 

More recently, Neil has focused on providing corporate support services to clients, being responsible for all operating systems in all contracted leisure facilities.  His responsibilities ranged from the preparation, reviewing and approving of all client business plans, preparation, negotiation and monitoring of all client contracts, preparation of tender bids, maintenance of a national insurance and risk management program, training, internal operational auditing and implementation and control of the first ever ISO 9001 quality assurance management system for the leisure industry in Australia.  He has tertiary qualifications in business management and is qualified Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training.

 

Neil was instrumental in the development and application of an internationally recognised KPI benchmarking system for the leisure industry, (the CERM PI Project) and currently serves on the international advisory panel.  He is a certified CERM adviser/consultant.

 

He was member of the curriculum review board and Senior Lecturer, Bachelor of Applied Science, (Recreation Planning and Management), University of SA and was member of the steering committee of SA Recreation Industry Training Board.