Leading by Example Author, award-winning entrepreneur, motivational speaker, champion athlete, and founder and CEO of Canada's Goodlife Fitness Centers are just a few of the words that can be used to describe David Patchell-Evans, a true visionary and one of the industry's most remarkable men. David Patchell-Evans seems larger than life at first glance, and maybe even at second or third glance! As the head of Canada's largest fitness chain, which is also the largest individually owned and managed club chain in the world, Patchell-Evans is a true innovator who has earned an impressive list of accolades, awards and honors, leading a life that is filled with amazing, yet often hard-won triumphs. Despite his enormous success and widespread recognition, however, he is known simply as "Patch" by most of his colleagues, family and friends, which is the first of many indications that he is a humble leader who has not been caught up in the superficial trappings of success and notoriety. Read more...