Calgary’s only co-ed fitness club, World
Health, in 1983 and continued to expand
over the next two decades. In 2008, the
company established a partnership with
private equity firm North Castle Partners,
paving the way to bringing three different
styles of fitness clubs together under the
International Fitness Holdings umbrella in
2010. The organization now offers eight
Spa Lady clubs and eight World Health
clubs in Calgary and Edmonton, and the
Bankers Hall Club in downtown Calgary.
Scott Wildeman is Senior Vice President,
Operations, for International Fitness Hold-
ings and has seen the company grow
and change since joining 19 years ago as
a weight room monitor. Exemplifying the
definition of getting in on the ground floor,
Wildeman has worked his way up the
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