Catalina Montoya

Ryan Watkins Fitness

Virtual Assistant at 

Strategy Coach

We help busy professional people 20+ pounds overweight lose weight, have more energy, regain their youth, and enjoy life again in 12-16 weeks || DM me "TRANSFORM" to learn more

Originally from Colombia South America.

Years ago I used to be very active playing sports such as volleyball, soccer, played physical games as well as cycling.

During my journey I have gone off and on again when it came to eating healthy and exercising.  Within recent years I have struggled to lose weight due to being an accounting assistant and being pretty sedentary.  

After trying on different clothes, I found that my clothes didn't fit well anymore and made me feel self-conscious so I decided to better improve my health by increasing my energy and toning up through exercise.

I have been going to the gym and really enjoy feeling stronger with the weights.

Want to lose 20+ pounds of unwanted fat, gain more energy,  regain your youth and enjoy life again  in 12-16 weeks?  MESSAGE me "TRANSFORM" to learn more

Virtual Assistant at

Franchise Council of Australia

Member Board of Directors

Franchise Ready 

I am The Franchise Guy ™ and we are Franchising Experts that help aspiring and existing franchisors, with:

✔ Developing Franchise Manuals - Training, Operations, Opening Manuals, SOP's 
✔ Franchisee Recruitment
✔ Business & Commercial sales
✔ Franchise Strategy
✔ Franchisee & Franchisor Executive Team Training
✔ Franchisee marketing
✔ Franchisor and Franchisee Team Building
✔ Business Coaching
✔ Mastermind Advisory Groups for Franchisors
✔ Business simulation - Training

We have launched some of Australia's fastest growing brands into the franchise sector, in the past 12 months we have helped over 60 Good businesses become Great through Franchising and over 220 brands in total.
Helping business owners create Strategy and Systems for Sustainable Growth.

Whether or not you want to franchise your business, every Business should be 'Franchise Ready'.

With over 30 years' experience in the Franchise Industry at senior management level, having operated at all levels, including as a Franchisee, Franchisor & Master Franchisee. I saw the need to create Franchise Ready.

Franchise Ready was established to help aspiring franchisors develop a strategy to go to market successfully. 

We:
 Workshop the opportunity
 Create the Strategic Plan
 Develop all the collateral required - Operations & Training manuals, SOP's, Launch programs,  
 Coordinate Marketing collateral - Style & Fitout guides, Advertising, Brochures, Prospectus
 Support through the documentation process with lawyers and Accountants
 Recruit Franchisees and Key Executives


After 25 years working in the franchise sector as a Franchisor, Franchisee and Master Franchisor, I have helped create, develop & grow over 200 Australian brands and more than 20 brands internationally, improving their systems, processes and documentation to enable them to grow either through a corporate structure or through a licensed or Franchise model. I consult to business owners that want to grow through multi-unit operations.

Franchising- 3 time Top 100 Global influencer in franchising & 4 time Top 30 Franchise Executives  

The Alternative Board Australia

I personally worked with over 100 Business owners as their Business Coach, Mentor and Consultant over the past 10 years and I am proud to say that my clients businesses grew by in excess of 50% on average. I was recognised in the Top 2% Business Coaches globally with The Alternative Board for membership and retention.

The Alternative Board is a membership organisation of Business Owners and CEOs who meet monthly in confidential board meetings to assist each other in transforming their businesses.

The Alternative Board (TAB) exists to help business owners align their business vision with their personal vision. It exists to provide owners/CEO’s with the power to ensure that their businesses will deliver what they want out of life.

In addition to the monthly board meetings, the facilitator/coach meets with the business owner/CEO each month and works with them in a one on one coaching session focussed exclusively on their business

Business Coach

The Alternative Board (Worldwide)

I brought the TAB business to Australia as the master franchisee and the business grew to over 20 Business coaches with The Alternative Board in Australia and in those 5 years we helped over 500 business owners.

Franchisor - Master Franchisee

Brain & Poulter - Australasia’s No.1 Retail Food Advisors to the Property Industry.

General Manager

Equilibrium HR Partners

Retailworld Resourcing

Healthy Habits - Australia & New Zealand

General Manager (Contract Role)

Frontline Recruitment Group

Jesters Australia

Franchise Expert ► Franchising ► Consulting ► Coaching ► Launched, Supported & Helped Grow over 200 Franchise Brands. Now Franchising the Franchise Ready business Globally

Helping Business owners scale and grow their businesses profitably through Franchising.

Now we're Franchising - Franchise Ready

Complete our Franchise Readiness scorecard here - https://franchiseready.scoreapp.com/

We have helped launch and support over 150 Franchise Brands in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore in the past five years.

In 2021 we got recognised as the best franchise consulting firm in the World, that's something we are very proud of and humbled by the clients that allow us to help them realise their dreams.



In the past 5 years, I helped franchise businesses grow on average by over 200% and non franchised businesses grow by more than 50%, which is 15 times the Australian average.

I am proud to have worked with and helped well over 1000 small business owners in my career.

An experienced Business Developer within the Retail, Hospitality and Franchising sectors. Specialising in SME Business Development and Growth, Coaching and Facilitating, Operations, Recruitment, Training, Supply Chain, Marketing and all aspects of Franchising.

A franchising expert having worked in both start-up and established networks, delivering significant comparable and new business growth with significant improvements in profitability and operational standards. As a senior leader I was responsible for the establishment of three of my own franchise systems including all aspects from strategy through to implementation. Prior to starting my franchise consulting business I was director or CEO of 8 successful franchise systems.

In the Past 12 months I have helped launch and grow over 40 Franchise brands in Australia, and over 70 franchise brands in the past two years, working with the founder to systemise, strategise and implement a growth strategy through franchising. I remain working with all of these businesses as their trusted business advisor.

I have started, owned and operated six successful SME Businesses, I currently own 6 franchises myself as a franchisee, so I know what being a business owner, franchisee and franchisor is all about. In 2019 I sold the Master Franchise of The Alternative Board franchise after establishing, operating and owning the master franchise of TAB for 5 years. I now focus my time exclusively on the Franchise Ready business providing support to both emerging and existing franchisors and through the development of The Franchise Ready Franchised/Licensed model throughout the world.

We're looking for experienced franchise executives and individuals that want to leverage our brand - We're Franchising - Franchising

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