Case Study: Life Time Fitness achieves faster, more collaborative and accurate external reporting with Workiva

Life Time Fitness Takes a Healthier Approach to Reporting

Life Time Fitness, a health‑and‑fitness company operating more than 100 large centers in the U.S. and Canada, struggled with time‑consuming, error‑prone external reporting: manual consolidation of handwritten comments, repeated table fixes, unreliable outsourced XBRL tagging, and an untenable five‑day “pencils down” freeze that delayed filings. Director of Financial Reporting Megan Rowekamp led the search for a more secure, collaborative solution to streamline 10‑Q and 10‑K preparation.

The team implemented the External Reporting Solution powered by Wdesk, supported by Workiva professional services for setup and XBRL review. The platform’s real‑time collaboration, linking, and robust XBRL tools — plus dedicated customer support — enabled a fast transition, reduced busy work, improved tagging quality, and made reporting faster, less stressful, and more reliable.

Life Time Fitness

Megan Rowekamp

Director of Financial Reporting