Nick Berry
Co-Founder and former CEO
About Nick Berry
Entrepreneur and Business Advisor
Nick Berry is an American entrepreneur and business advisor known for founding, leading, and advising award-winning small businesses since 2002. Nick is the founder of Redesigned.Business and Authority Coded. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Fitness Revolution.
What Nick Berry Does Today
Nick Berry founded Redesigned.Business, his coaching and advisory practice. He works 1-on-1 with founders of expertise-driven businesses. His clients have traction and are ready to move from producing the work to leading the company.
Nick also founded Authority Coded, which provides visibility architecture for experts whose business runs on their personal reputation. For those experts, opportunities hinge on what people find when they check them out. Nick launched Authority Coded in September 2026 after two years of development and a year of client work.
He hosts The Business Owner’s Journey podcast, which launched in June 2024. Guests include Dr. Benjamin Hardy, John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing, and Jason Feifer of Entrepreneur magazine.
Business Ventures
Nick Berry co-founded Fitness Consulting Group (FCG) with Pat Rigsby in July 2005. FCG has operated as Nick’s holding company since 2016. Nick Berry has four business exits:
- Fitness Revolution, co-founded in 2010 and exited in 2024
- The International Youth Conditioning Association, owned from 2008 to 2016
- Resistance Band Training Systems, launched in 2010 with Dave “The Band Man” Schmitz
- Lead Engine Marketing, a pay-per-click advertising agency
Books and Frameworks
Nick Berry has co-authored five books, including The Only Business Book You’ll Ever Need with Brian Tracy.
Nick Berry created the Business Alignment System™. It links a founder’s leadership growth, strategy, and operating system into one roadmap.
Nick Berry’s Awards and Business Recognition
Nick’s companies have earned these awards:
- FCG: Inc. 5000 four times, ranking as high as #580
- FCG: Best Places to Work in Kentucky, three times
- Fitness Revolution: Entrepreneur Franchise 500, four rankings in 2014 and 2015
- Fitness Revolution: Franchise Business Review’s #1 fitness franchise for franchisee satisfaction in 2012, 2013, and 2014
- Nick’s companies have earned three American Business Awards
Nick Berry and Fitness Revolution
Nick co-founded Fitness Revolution in 2010. He served as CEO until he exited the company in 2024.
Fitness Revolution started as a fitness franchise. In 2015, Fitness Revolution changed its model to business coaching for gym owners.
Under his leadership, FR built the Fitness Business Alignment System™, launched the High Performance Coaching Program and Revolution for a Cause, and served more than 4,000 fitness business owners.
Background and Personal Life
Nick Berry grew up in Hodgenville, Kentucky. He graduated from Larue County High School in 1996.
He played baseball at Campbellsville University and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science. He spent one year as an assistant baseball coach, then started his first business in 2002.
Nick married Kelly Berry in 2007. Nick and Kelly have been business partners since 2012. They have one daughter and live in Hobe Sound, Florida.