About Us

We develop your managers to get the best out of their people, and increase results. We coach them to use practical strategies from psychology, refined with over 10,000 managers.

 

Blair Stevenson, Head Coach & Founder

Blair Stevenson coaches managers to get the best out of their people and increase results, by applying practical strategies from psychology.

Over the past 27 years, he’s refined those strategies through his work with more than 10,000 managers.

Blair has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Diploma in Teaching and a Certificate in Positive Psychology.

He’s the author of the book, “Game On: How to create a world-class coaching culture.”

Mal Winnie - Master Trainer at BravaTrak

Mal Winnie, Assistant Coach

Over the past two decades, Mal has worked extensively with leaders from a wide variety of industries to drive results. He enables them to apply practical principles and techniques derived from neuroscience and positive psychology.

As a result, he has an in-depth understanding of the challenges managers face and how to overcome them.

He is an Accredited Neurolinguistics Master Practitioner and Trainer and a mBIT Certified Coach and Trainer.

Vanessa Varela, Community Manager

Vanessa is the Community Manager for the Leadership Academy.

Vanessa is a seasoned coach with a remarkable 18-year career in consumer sales and service.

She has extensive experience as a team leader applying our methodology. She intimately understands the challenges team leaders face and how to overcome them.

As a trainer, she trained and coached other team leaders to help their teams exceed target and provide award-winning service.

Vanessa received a BA in Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching and Learning from Valle University in Colombia.

Matt Stevenson, Business Development Representative

Matt has been with BravaTrak for ten years. He started part-time while travelling internationally before transitioning to a full-time role upon returning to New Zealand.

Currently, he is responsible for client acquisition.

Matt previously served as an Assistant Coach for many workshops conducted for client organisations. Consequently, he is proficient in the practical techniques in which we train and coach managers.

Matt earned his BCom in Information Systems and Marketing from the University of Auckland.