In elementary school, Al had his first taste at success - and it's challenges - when he started Al's Complete Yard Care, and at the young age of 11 years old, pulled a cart containing his mower, weed-wacker, fuel and necessary tools from lawn to lawn, leaving behind perfectly manicured lawns and happy clients. This gave Al the desire to serve on a greater scale.
From there, he bounced around between several business ideas, some successful, some great learning opportunities, until he hit it out of the park with his Kickboxing studio. After realizing the great need for a fun (meaning NOT boring) way to lose weight, he specialized in it and become Ontario's largest weight lost focused fitness studio in just a few short years.
Alain expanded his studio's location multiple times over, doubling it's client base year over year for several years in a row, before finally retiring and selling the studio. A few short months later, 7 to be exact, Alain receives the news that the new owner is shutting down the business. Refusing to see his "baby" close, he negotiated a deal to take over the operations once again, only to realize the previously booming business was nearly dead!
In less than a year, Al brought the business back to where it was when he ran it before, and in 2 years increased it another 35%, reaching an all time high. He then sold it again, this time for good.
From there, he started his business consultancy, and went on to work for mega-clients such as the world's greatest (and highest paid) motivational speaker Les Brown. Today, Al runs a full-service agency that specializes in handling the back-end needs of speakers, authors and entrepreneurs. From marketing, branding and growth-hacking, RYS Group does it all.