Helping high performance athletes remain injury-free and encouraging children to develop proficiency in various sport and physical activities have always been Francois’ top priorities.

Back in the late 1990’s, when he was working as a full-time strength and conditioning coach, he started using Dr. Carl Foster’s session-RPE method to quantify training load and prevent overuse injuries and burnout. He found that this method was a great success. Athletes enjoyed the analyses and achieved excellent results. Francois recognized the need for a convenient tool to use the session-RPE more effectively with the professional and national-levels teams and athletes he was working with at the time (in ice-hockey, rugby, handball, figure skating, speed skating, volleyball).

This led him to create AthleteMonitoring.com, the first web-based platform to monitor athlete’s training load, monotony, and strain, using the session-RPE method. To commercialize this product, Advanced Fitness Designs (later renamed FITSTATS Technologies) was founded in 2000.

A little later, in 2006, dismayed to see that many children and adolescents didn’t have the opportunities to experience a wide range of sports in a friendly, non-competitive way, Francois founded the New-Brunswick Sports Academy, a non-profit group organized sports discovery programs in K-8 schools.

His involvement with this program led him to develop a prototype of the first web-based fitness and motor-skills assessment platform, which was further improved and transformed into a full-scale system in collaboration with the Frederick County School District (VA, USA).

In 2017, while attending the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport in Monaco, Francois met a leading injury researcher of the Oslo Sport Trauma Research Center. This encounter led to a multiyear partnership with this prestigious organization and to the development of all the deviceless health monitoring and injury surveillance components now incorporated in FITSTATS Wellness and AthleteMonitoring.com.

The AthleteMonitoring.com and FitstatsWellness.com platforms have been entirely redesigned in 2015. They are continuously enhanced, and now used daily by thousands of physical educators, health and wellness professionals as well as elite sport organizations worldwide.