About Us
We help senior leaders improve performance in their frontline teams. We do this by enabling their frontline managers to use our Performance Leadership system.
Our system is based on the practical strategies used by managers of high-performing teams (identified in our interviews with hundreds of them), the latest findings in behavioral science, and our work helping improve performance and engagement in 70+ organisations over the past 29 years.
Blair Stevenson, Performance Consultant & Founder
Blair Stevenson works with senior leaders to help them improve performance in their frontline teams.
Before starting BravaTrak 29 years ago, he led the leadership consultancy arm of a fast-growing startup, which is now a global company.
Blair developed our Performance Leadership system. It’s focused on the small number of practical strategies that we've found make the biggest improvements to the performance and engagement of frontline teams.
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, Performance 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, Performance Coach
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 system. She intimately understands the challenges frontline managers 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 14 years, and is responsible for client acquisition.
Matt previously served as an Assistant Coach in workshops for clients. As a result, he’s skilled in applying our Performance Leadership System.
Matt earned his BCom in Information Systems and Marketing from the University of Auckland.