Ryan Hawkes
RYAN HAWKESHEALTH · FITNESS · WELLNESS
Advisor · Designer · Operator

Ryan Hawkes

I help the best in health, fitness & wellness build it and tell the story of what they built.

Concept·Design·Procurement·Operations·Technology·Storytelling

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Who This Is For

For the founders, operators, developers, investors, and physicians building serious health, fitness, and wellness — the people whose decisions a facility, a brand, or a business gets built around.

Who I Am

22 years
inside.

I didn't study this industry from the outside — I built inside it. Twenty-two years, starting on the floor at twenty. I've designed the spaces, chosen the equipment, hired the front desk, run the meetings, built the brands — and built and sold my own company from nothing.

That's the difference. When I walk a project, I see it the way an operator sees it — concept, layout, equipment, experience, and the business that has to run inside it — not the way a vendor or an agency does.

Today I'm the named, faced voice that operators, developers, investors, and physicians pay attention to. Two things sit under all of it: I understand what the best in this industry are building, and I can tell that story at the highest level.

22 Years InsideBuilt & SoldOperator · Designer · Voice
Ryan Hawkes
Athletic Kulture
The Origin — Athletic Kulture

I built the thing
before I designed them.

Athletic Kulture started with a notebook and a vision, alone in my apartment. I took it from there to open doors — the brand, the floor plan, the build, the equipment, the hiring, the marketing, the whole way through — then ran it and sold it. It's where the operator became the person who now designs and tells these stories for everyone else.

Athletic Kulture floorAthletic Kulture — the floor I designed
Athletic Kulture aerialStanding in what I built
Athletic Kulture brandThe brand — built from scratch
Research & Analysis

I don't judge it from a spec sheet. I test it
under the bar.

Every recommendation comes from participation, not a brochure. I'm on the manufacturing floors with the people who build the equipment. I train on it before I ever put it in a room. That's the difference between an opinion and an authority.

And it runs past the equipment. I'm deep enough in wellness and biohacking to advise the people building the space — founders, investors, developers, and operators — across hospitality, luxury residential, and commercial.

At a manufacturer HQInside the manufacturer's HQ
GermanyOn the factory floor, Germany
RecoveryRed-light & recovery tech
AquaticsAquatics & hospitality
On the floorOn the manufacturing floor with the builders
FactoryInside the factory
PlatformsTesting the newest platforms
Under the barUnder the bar
VO2VO2 max — measured, not guessed
DEXADEXA / body composition
The Work

Two things nobody
else pairs.

Most people in this industry do one or the other. I do both — I understand what the best are building, and I produce the story of it at the highest level.
That pairing is the whole offering.

01

Advisory & Design

It often starts before a line is drawn. "We're thinking about adding longevity." "What equipment should go in this space?" "Should we add yoga, or racket sports?"

That's the call I get — the concept and advisory stage, where the decisions that make or break a facility actually get made. From there: concept, layout, equipment and procurement, recovery and longevity, and the full experience — for high-end clubs, developments, hospitality, and private residences.

Concept and layoutConcept & layout
FacilityEquipment & experience
On the buildOn the build
02

Storytelling & Production

This is just as important as building the business — if not more.

You can build something remarkable and it still fails if no one feels it. A full production resource centre built to tell brands' stories at the highest level — origin-story films, on-location features, podcast, and social.

Storytelling is the most under-leveraged asset most brands have, and it's the part I've spent years getting excellent at: storytelling that shapes what people think, what they feel, and what they do about it.

On setOn location — original films
InterviewThe interview
On cameraOn camera

The fastest way to understand what I do is to watch it. Two origin-story films, produced start to finish:

Ryan Hawkes speaking
Speaking

On the stage,
too.

Keynotes and industry stages, rooms of 250–300+. The same operator-side clarity that runs through everything else — delivered live, to the people building the next decade of this industry.

Book Ryan for a keynote, panel, or board — info@ryanhawkes.com

The Build Team

Design is half of it.
Delivering it is the other half.

A concept is worthless if it can't be delivered on time and on budget. That's where Yinka comes in — so we don't just design the space, we see it through from concept to open doors.

Yinka Odofin — Engineer & Project Manager

He's run large-scale commercial builds on the clock, and he handles the logistics and financing so we keep a project on time and on budget.

We design the concept and bring in the right architect, engineer, and general contractor to stamp the drawings and get approved. We handle procurement, and Yinka manages the whole project so the trades stay on schedule and the space gets built the way it's drawn. It's the difference between handing you a concept and actually delivering the room.

EngineerProject Manager
Yinka Odofin
Large-scale buildOn a large-scale build
Managing the siteManaging the site
Industry Intelligence

The read the
industry follows.

News in health, fitness, wellness, longevity, and biohacking — interpreted, not just announced. The same operator-side lens I bring to the work, pointed at where the industry is going next.

Weekly Intelligence

A weekly signal on what's shaping the industry — where capital is flowing, how science, equipment, and technology are evolving, which business models are emerging, and what matters versus noise. Written for long-term builders, not trend chasers.

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Follow Along

The daily read.

The interpretation happens in real time on Instagram — where the industry actually watches.

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Let's Build

Build it right.
Tell it right.

One conversation, and you'll know exactly what this could be for what you're building.

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