Philip Shaw Email & Phone Number

Dunedin, New Zealand

Born from a deep personal desire of its founders to provide better solutions for people looking to make positive change in their life. We want to broaden people's horizons and understanding of personal wellbeing. Help them accept themselves and apply self-care. Show them a path to progress/success and provide the support that is necessary to achieve this.

Dunedin, New Zealand

Specialist providers of small group team training. I am the head coach and responsible for general business operations.

Dunedin

Charged with general and operations management of this highly successful fitness facility, I was tasked with developing robust health and safety best practice standards, supporting deployment of assessment, training and specialist health initiatives and executing educational Programmes gym-wide. In additional, identifying building and maintaining relationships with healthcare professionals involved in the rehabilitation or treatment of individuals was required to manage risk profile and mitigate potential for harm. Responsibilities• Recruitment, development, coaching, mentoring, and leading a high performing health and fitness workforce. • Development of exercise framework using innovative technology and tools to improve health target performance and delivery.• Budget and contract management.• Planning and deployment of education Programmes for employees and customers.• Facilitating and implementing conflict resolution.• Business and policy process development and promotion.• Vendor management and procurement processes. Achievements• Developed and implement business processes in accordance with best practice compliance and Health and Safety standards.• Implementation of resource strategy resulted in the lowest turnover of Personal Trainers in Dunedin (3 in 3 years under my management). (Ave. turnover of PT's in Dunedin is 4-6 p/a)• Maintained a consistent membership-base despite an increase from 5 - 50 registered gyms in Dunedin since 2009. • Successfully sourced and implemented Tribe® Team Training (group training Programme) into World which competes effectively with big gym brands in Dunedin.

Dunedin

Position: Lecturer (Contractor) Reporting to: Senior Lecturer and ConsultantAs an educator, I was responsible for managing the delivery of an academic Personal Training Programme (“PTP”) to Year 2 students, and managing their performance. Charged with working alongside other lecturers at the Polytech, I ensured learning objectives were achieved through my content and delivery style. I enjoyed introducing a successful feedback system that enabled students to be assessed and provided with guidance best practice to improve. Responsibilities• Planning and preparing teaching materials and exams, designing and developing Personal Training methodology content. • Providing leadership and influence across the PTP.• Programme Management.• Mentoring students in developing their own PT competence and skillset.• Attendance at departmental meetings, course board meetings and course development meeting. Achievements• Developed excellent communication skills that motivated students to achieve 90% pass rate.• 10% require additional support but all students pass by year-end.• Recruiting high performing talent into the fitness industry.• Identified and shaped students career path from thinking PT is fast money, to understanding it is about developing people’s health and wellbeing.

Dunedin

As a Graphics Operator, I led an international team in the provision of leading live-on-air computer graphics for high profile televised sporting events in the US, EU and Australasia. Initially contracted to do on-site data collection at sporting events, the role evolved (without training) into outputting high tech GPS/Navigation data feed and into live on-air graphic feeds to production directors outputting to millions of people world-wide.

Les Mills Dunedin

Position: Group Fitness Manager Reporting to: Managing DirectorI was responsible for deploying an education strategy to ensure all staff was trained to the highest standard, able to identify and evaluate potential risks, and adhered to health and safety practices. I also took responsibility for the transfer of knowledge to customers and employees in use of exercise equipment and other exercise tools to meet goal, treatment, rehab plans. Another crucial component to my role was the recruitment, development, mentoring, retention and leading of a high performing health and fitness workforce. Responsibilities• Recruitment, development, coaching, mentoring, and leading a high performing health and fitness workforce. • Development of exercise framework using innovative technology and tools to improve health target performance and delivery.• Maintaining a Group Fitness timetable which had 70+ classes per week• Development/Assessment/Facilitation of Instructors.• Facilitating and implementing conflict resolution.• Business and policy process development and promotion. Achievements• Developed and implement business processes in accordance with best practice compliance and health and safety standards.• Implementation of resource strategy resulted in reduced turnover of gym staff.• I had two instructors gain Group Fitness Instructor of the Year awards.• I had the highest participation rates the club had ever seen, and still unbeaten to this day.• A clean Health and Safety record with no serious harm injuries (to both instructors and members).

Dunedin

Les Mills Auckland (2008 - 2010)Position: International Assessor Reporting to: Managing Director I collaborated with a high performing team to assess the minimum competency standards for a new instructor based on a specific in-house criterion. The delivery of feedback to potential recruits was critical to ensure each was set up for success. Collaboratively, I identified key components requiring improvement, and developed a plan with each recruit to ensure pathway to success was agreed.Position: International Presentation Team (2008 – 2010) Reporting to: National Sales DirectorCharged with the responsibility of being part of the International Presentation Team was both challenging and incredibly rewarding particularly being a brand ambassador for such renowned brand. I developed excellent communication and relationship management skills whilst working alongside club managers and owners delivering the Group Fitness Programme at the highest level with the Les Mills organisation. I presented, demonstrated and lectured at each club every three months upskilling the teams in new choreography.Achievements• Set-up the standards for technique and delivery of the Les Mills product suite so that minimum standards could be benchmarked, continuous improvement processes were put in place to ensure feedback was provided to adhere to all levels of compliance. • As an Instructor, I personally delivered the Les Mills Programmes around the world, and sold the Programmes and brand to potential gym and franchise owners.• The goal in my time was to having 2 million active participants in the Les Mills Programmes every week, and this was and still is easily achieved.

Bachelor’S Degree, Economics, Management,

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