![\"VASA](\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/VASA-Fitness-300x300.png\")
VASA Fitness<\/p>\nVASA Fitness<\/p>\n
DENVER, CO<\/strong> – VASA Fitness announced that Kevin Jonell has joined as Vice President of Human Resources, effective immediately. Kevin\u2019s 25-year career experience in human resources and operations has helped him achieve desired business results for companies including 24 Hour Fitness, Vail Resorts, PeopleSoft, Starbucks, University of Denver and BluSky Restoration. Kevin\u2019s role at VASA will leverage his unique experience to ensure its people strategy scales to align with the company\u2019s most critical business initiatives.<\/p>\n \u201cKevin has developed innovative programs in high-growth companies to drive strong employee engagement, culture and leadership development efforts,\u201d said Troy Peterson, Chief Operating Officer at VASA Fitness. \u201cKevin is passionate about helping people excel and achieve their goals and isn\u2019t afraid to roll up his sleeves to really understand the work and get it done. He has proven successful in driving results by attracting, developing and retaining talent. This level of commitment to our field organization will be key in guiding us in our evolution as a people-centric company and it is exactly what VASA needs as we embark on our next stage of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n Having coached hundreds of leaders to support their development and advance their career growth, Kevin brings a broad industry knowledge that has helped leaders and teams increase impact and performance in the retail, food & beverage, software, fitness, hospitality and construction industries. <\/p>\n Prior to VASA, Kevin was the founder and leadership coach at Kobalt Coaching, providing leadership and team development coaching for Fortune 500 companies and individual clients, helping them achieve desired results for their business, themselves and their teams. Previously, he was Head of Human Resources for BluSky Restoration where, reporting to the CEO, he provided strategic workforce plans to help scale the company to 400 employees across 20 offices through a series of acquisitions. Prior to BluSky, he spent 10 years at 24Hour Fitness as Senior Human Resources Director for North America where he led the planning, roll-out and support of all HR programs for the company, supporting 440 clubs and 20,000 employees across the globe. Kevin also worked in operations as a District Manager at Starbucks. He volunteers at the University of Denver Alumni Career Development office conducting webinars and providing career coaching. He also sits on the board of Manna Resource Center which exists to break through barriers to improve self-sufficiency and mental wellness. He holds a masters in business administration from the University of Denver and bachelor\u2019s degree in Philosophy from Eckerd College.<\/p>\n Kevin lives in Centennial, Colorado, with his wife and three kids and is an avid fly fisherman, golfer and tennis player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DENVER, CO<\/strong> – VASA Fitness announced that Kevin Jonell has joined as Vice President of Human Resources, effective immediately. Kevin\u2019s 25-year career experience in human resources and operations has helped him achieve desired business results for companies including 24 Hour Fitness, Vail Resorts, PeopleSoft, Starbucks, University of Denver and BluSky Restoration. Kevin\u2019s role at VASA will leverage his unique experience to ensure its people strategy scales to align with the company\u2019s most critical business initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7693,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions\/7693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}