Welcome to the home of human performance and the company behind Performance-OS™

Who we areWho we are
Leaders in human and business transformation

Who We Are

For decades, we’ve examined the potential of human performance and how to harness it.

Our high-performance operating system – Performance-OS™ – informed by our groundbreaking research on athlete capitulation, has been described as ‘one of the single greatest breakthroughs in human performance’ and ‘the most powerful performance improvement process ever developed.’

Vantaset leverages these insights to help organisations unlock a new frontier in their performance.

What we doWhat we do

Elite athletes know 90–95% of the equation is psychological.

What we do

We help organisations realise a breakthrough in their performance and productivity.

From government agencies to Fortune 500 companies, if people are central to your organisation’s success, Vantaset is the answer.

Our customers:

  • Aim higher
  • Deliver more value
  • Set the standard in their sector

Since introducing Performance-OS™, it has proven to be up to 10x more effective than international best practice.

This isn’t theory.It’s transformation in motion.

How we do it

Vantaset offers organisations a new way to lead, interact, and perform.

Performance-OS™, the world’s first people-focused high-performance operating system, is unlike anything else on the market as it’s the only system that:

  • Aligns all 5 drivers of organisational performance
  • Is powered by proven performance transformation technology
  • Is supported by new generation, people-first software
  • Is designed for modern, future-focused businesses

Vantaset is not just a system. It’s how leaders unlock their organisation’s potential at scale.

Why we do itWhy we do it
Your people determine what your business is and what it becomes

Why we do it

As everyone knows, the world has changed and so too have the demands on leaders.

To succeed in this fast-paced environment, leaders need new tools to transform their organisation’s effectiveness while adopting better ways of working to attract and retain the talent they need to remain competitive. Success today demands more than smart strategy and AI. It requires transformational leadership that’s powered by proven people-first systems.

Vantaset exists to enable leaders to build organisations people believe in and want to support.

How we do itHow we do it
The organisations who win in the future will be those who win on a human level

Deploying Vantaset

  • Reorientates organisations to focus staff on critical outcomes
  • Embeds a cycle of success to optimise the impact of every person
  • Introduces high-trust practices to lift people’s productivity and experience
  • Provides data and analytics to transform your progress and decision making

Supported by purpose-driven software, Vantaset transforms organisational outcomes and employees’ impact and experience.

The future of organisational performance
The future of workplace performance

Who we've assisted

  • BNZ
  • Hamilton City Council
  • New Zealand Police
  • Fronde
  • Colliers International
  • Fonterra
  • Spark NZ
  • CarterHoltHarvey
  • Corporate Express
  • Craigs Investment Partners
  • The Bell Tea Co
  • European Financial Services
  • Fletcher Building
  • James & Wells
  • Giltrap Group
  • Mighty River Power
  • NZME
  • Motor Co
  • PlaceMakers
  • Roche
  • Meredith Connell
  • Stuff
  • Tip Top
  • U Bank
  • Sanofi

How can we help you?

  • Performance Readiness Assessments
  • Leadership Performance & Development Programmes
  • Sales Performance & Development Programmes
  • Performance Transformation Readiness Audits
  • Performance Transformation Programmes (Performance-OS™)

If you’re wanting to achieve a step-change in your organisation’s performance, nothing compares to Vantaset.

Our Team

Meet the talented individuals that make Vantaset such a game-changer.

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    Craig Steel

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer

    Craig’s lifelong passion for human performance led to a ground-breaking discovery that explained why some athletes won while the majority fell short.

    These observations led to the development of Pro-Sport, a revolutionary performance improvement process for elite athletes. Following the release of Pro-Sport, Craig was invited to assist many of New Zealand’s leading athletes, helping them amass more than 20 world cup and world championship titles between them.

    Following his success with athletes, Craig was asked if he could share his insights with business leaders – essentially to help them do for their people what he was doing for athletes. These early engagements led to the development of a suite of transformational leadership programmes to help organisations realise a breakthrough in workplace performance.

    The first organisation to test his process (Telecom Business Directions – now Spark) increased their sales by more than 400% within four months, against a target of 5% – confirming his process could be applied in business.

    The success of the Telecom programme led to the Steel Performance System™ being deployed in more than 50 of New Zealand’s most respected businesses within the next few years. Because of its impact, virtually every chief executive Craig assisted asked him if they could use his process as an Operating Model to transform the performance of their entire workforce. Since then, Craig's team has spent the past decade building what many believe are the world’s best high-performance frameworks for business which they've now ‘digitised’ under the brand Vantaset to make them available to a wider audience.

    c.steel@vantaset.com+64 27 242 5840LinkedIn Profile
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    Jo Dickson

    Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer

    Looking after all things legal, financial and contractual, Jo also oversees our interactions with both customers and suppliers. She has worked full-time in the business since its inception and remains a cornerstone of our culture and commitment to customers.

    j.dickson@vantaset.com+64 123 4567LinkedIn Profile
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    Moss Burmester

    Head of Product

    Moss oversees all aspects of our programme development. His experience as both an Olympian and extreme sportsman has proven invaluable in helping our customers realise the benefits our human performance technology offers. In his former life, Moss was not only an avid user of our product as an athlete (and the first New Zealander to win a World Championship title in Swimming), he is one of our ‘100 percenters’, i.e. every time he competed in a tier 1 event, he produced a personal best.

    m.burmester@vantaset.com+64 21 118 4603LinkedIn Profile
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    Roger Shakes

    Head of Product

    Roger leads our strategic positioning as a technology company. His experience as a tech-focused media expert has proven invaluable in not only helping us position Vantaset™ in the market but explain the benefits it offers stakeholders and directors in a practical sense.

    r.shakes@vantaset.com+64 21 058 9676LinkedIn Profile
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    Brett Baker

    Chief Technology Officer

    Brett oversees all aspects of our platform development and implementation. Although we’ve refined our process over the past decade to ensure it works across industry, bringing it to life in a digital format to enable users to realise the benefits it offers requires a deep understanding of coding as well as an appreciation of human interactions and behaviour in large, complex organisations which Brett provides in spades.

    b.baker@vantaset.com+64 21 283 3360LinkedIn Profile
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    Julian Fordyce

    Graphic Designer

    Julian oversees the customisation of the Platform to ensure it seamlessly integrates visually into our customer’s businesses as well as our marketing materials and documentation. A passionate English-born designer, Julian has worked full-time in the industry for over 20 years prior to winging his way to New Zealand in 2018.

    j.fordyce@vantaset.com+64 27 430 9071LinkedIn Profile