Ilene Gershberg began her professional career working in the field of broadcast marketing and
management. Six years of high intensity sales work for Taft Broadcasting radio stations, followed
by 10 years at an NBC network affiliate television station provided Ilene success within the
corporate arena. While those years produced wonderful monetary rewards, they took their toll on
Ilene’s overall health. Motivated by the premature death of her mother, Ilene decided to
reevaluate the focus of her career.
Subsequently, Ilene received her certification through American College of Sports Medicine.
She then established a private practice with a concentration on individual counseling in the
areas of sound eating principles, weight loss and overall health and prevention. By the end of
1999, Ilene was still frustrated with her own personal health inadequacies. She was in and out
of physical therapist’s offices, still overweight and suffering from a poor immune system.
Ilene was still living as the "typically inactive and overstressed professional executive".
Ilene’s frustrations, an increasing responsibility to serve as a better role model for her
clients and attaining the age in which her mother contracted cancer prompted a transformation. She
was finally motivated to achieve exceptional and permanent results in weight loss and accomplished
levels of fitness.
Three Resolution Goals on New Years Eve 2000 shaped renewed vision for physical improvements in
Ilene’s life. Goal #1 – Year #1: Ilene achieved her weight loss goal. Goal #2 – Year #2:
Become Athletic – Ilene started running and placed in various local races, ran the NYC ½
Marathon and completed the renowned Chicago Marathon three weeks after 9/11.
Goal #3 – Year #3: To look as athletic as she had become, Ilene entered a national
fitness challenge implementing her own customized lifestyle-based programs to achieve
her goal. This popular national competition sported over 100,000 entries. It was judged 50%
on documentation of physical transformation resulting from supplementation, nutrition,
cardiovascular, core abdominal and resistance training. The other 50% was judged on the
written responses to sports psychology based essay questions. Ilene finished the 2002
Challenge as a Finalist scoring in the Top 4% Nationally. From Year #1, Ilene lost a total of
40 lbs., reduced her dress size from a 13/14 to a 2/4, lowered her body fat from 27% to 14.1%
and lost overall 46 inches.
Today Ilene provides the professional training, motivation and goal setting/time
management skills necessary to achieve exceptional results in health and fitness.
Ilene on Health embraces a mission dedicated to health benefits as they
maximize individual performance levels helping others to reach their potential. She energizes
large group audiences and breakout seminars at executive conferences and retreats nationwide.
She addresses not only current topics of interest on health and fitness, but realistic lifestyle
issues that professional executives face daily while trying to maintain their health.
Ilene is unique to the speaking industry as she applies a variety of skills formulated as a
result of her corporate and fitness backgrounds blending together. Few
speakers have the exceptional ability to motivate and educate audience sizes ranging from 1-1000,
while additionally providing personalized & empowering fitness/enrichment activities.
Fun and unique extras include interactive accountability groups, on-site caloric intake analysis or sign ups for private
one-on-one tips, motivation and guidance. Ilene on Health distinctively exudes sophistication coupled with a high energy,
positive outlook on health & fitness empowerment. Committed and passionate about her philosophy that
"Enhanced health & fitness maximizes productivity and fulfillment in life"...
Ilene feels a strong dedication to help others achieve great success and it shows!
