Phillip Mills

This article is about the athlete and businessman. For the rally driver, see Phil Mills.
Phillip Mills

Phillip Mills at the Les Mills Auckland City gym, New Zealand.

Phillip Mills
Nationality New Zealander
Occupation Sportsman, businessman

Phillip Mills (born 13 February 1955 in Auckland) is a former track and field competitor from New Zealand and a founder and Chief Executive of Les Mills International.[1][2]

Sport

Phillip Mills was born into an athletic family. His father Les, mother Colleen and sister Donna all represented New Zealand at Olympic and/or Commonwealth Games in track and field.[3][4][5]

Phillip Mills competed in the 110m hurdles at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch and in the 110m and 400m hurdles at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta.[6] He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on a track and field scholarship, and graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1978.[2]

Business

On returning to New Zealand in 1979, Phillip Mills took an increasing role in the Les Mills fitness-club business founded by Les and Colleen in 1968. The Les Mills business floated on the stock market in 1984 and was taken over by an investment company in 1987. After the share market crash that year, Mills bought the business back and continues to operate it.[2]

In 2004, Mills was named Ernst & Young's New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year.[2] In 2009 he won Kea New Zealand's World Class New Zealand Award for New Thinking.[7][8]

The environment and sustainability

In 2007 Mills and his wife, Dr Jackie Mills MD, published Fighting Globesity – A Practical Guide To Personal Health and Global Sustainability (Random House).[9][10] Mills is also founder of the 100% Plan, a group of New Zealand business leaders lobbying for green business policy.[11][12][13]

References

  1. ↑ The Future of Fitness White Paper – Les Mills International. “The Future of Fitness”. Accessed 28 July 2010.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ernst & Young New Zealand. “Phillip Mills – Winner”. 2004.
  3. ↑ New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association website. Les Mills profile. 2010. Accessed 28 July 2010.
  4. ↑ New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association website. Colleen Mills profile. 2010. Accessed 28 July 2010.
  5. ↑ New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association website. Donna Mills profile. 2010. Accessed 28 July 2010.
  6. ↑ New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association website. Phillip Mills profile. 2010. Accessed 28 July 2010.
  7. ↑ Kea New Zealand website. “Winners of the 2009 World Class New Zealand Awards”. Accessed 28 July, 2010.
  8. ↑ Made from New Zealand website. Video interview: “Phillip Mills – World Class New Zealand – Les Mills”. 2009.
  9. ↑ Mills, Phillip and Dr Jackie Mills MD. Fighting Globesity: A Practical Guide to Personal Health and Sustainability. Random House. 2007.
  10. ↑ Monroe, Mary. “Fit Body, Fit Planet”. IDEA Fitness Journal. September 2008.
  11. ↑ Revington, Mark. “New Zealand's cleantech change agents”. Unlimited. 21 June 2010.
  12. ↑ Tobias, Chris. “One hundred percent”. Idealog No. 27. 2010.
  13. ↑ 100% Plan website. Accessed 28 July 2010.

Works and Publications

CNN Les Mills CEO: HIIT training popular 17 April 2012.

Les Mills Group Fitness (YouTube Channel) Secrets of the world's most successful fitness facilities with Phillip Mills 23 January 2012

On Site Fitness Group Exercise for Growth and Strength by Phillip Mills P.20-23, April/May 2012

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE Youtube channel) Les Mills CEO on the Better By Design US Study Tour 8 November 2011

Mills, Phillip. “Green chances far outweigh costs”. New Zealand Herald. 2 January 2010.

Mills, Phillip. “Imagining 2020: Green opportunities far outweigh the costs”. New Zealand Business council for Sustainable Development. 11 March 2010.

Mills, Phillip. “To do more than catch up, we need to clean up and green up”. Dominion Post. 25 February 2010.

Mills, Phillip and Dr Jackie Mills MD. Fighting Globesity: A Practical Guide to Personal Health and Sustainability. Random House. 2007.

External links

NZTE Les Mills International shoots for 100 million by 2020 2012

IHRSA Success by Association What is the best way to increase participation and revenue from group exercise classes? 2012

Building Intelligence Group, The. “Fit for the Future”. Think. 15 November 2009. Celsias website. “Geoff Ross leads high-powered green ginger group”. 28 April 2010.

Chauvel, Charles. “Energy and Resources Policy in New Zealand: Where's the Plan?”. Speech to Power and Electricity World New Zealand 2010. 16 February 2010.

Club Industry. “Interview with Geoff Dyer, CEO of Lifestyle Family Fitness Inc., St. Petersburg, FL”. 1 July 2007.

Club Industry website. “Les Mills Examines ‘Future of Fitness’”. 12 January 2010.

Dale, Suzie, Sue Godinet, Natalie Kearse and Dr Adrian Field. The Future of Fitness – A White Paper. Les Mills International. 2010. Easy Green Living website. “Les Mills Gyms Going Green”. 9 October 2009.

Ernst & Young New Zealand website. “Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame”. 2009.

Fallow, Brian. “The upside of climate change”. New Zealand Herald. 21 January 2010.

Felstead, Alan and Daniel Bishop, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson, Tracey Lee & Lorna Unwin. “Moving to the Music: Learning Processes, Training and Productive Systems – The Case of Exercise to Music Instruction”. Learning as Work Research Paper, No. 6. Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. June 2006.

Ferguson, Mary. “Phillip reveals the secrets of his success”. Work Out. July 2009. Pp 1 and 24.

Goa, Karen. “Les Mills: The father of fitness”. Plenty. Autumn 2007.

Hunter, Tim. "Making a very healthy profit”. Sunday Star-Times. 17 October 2004.

McNeil, Ben. “NZ wants to lead the Clean Ind Revolution!”. The Clean Revolution website. 10 March 2010. Accessed 28 July 2010.

National Business Review, The. “The Rich List 2006”. 21 July 2006

Popke, Michael. “Wide World, of Sorts – Review of Fighting Globesity: A Practical Guide to Personal Health and Global Sustainability”. Athletic Business. November 2007.

Williams, Alexandra. “Green Up Your Fitness." Idea Fitness Journal. July 2009.