From elite athletes to
elite organisations

Craig Steel is considered one of the world’s foremost performance transformation experts and Australasia’s leading authority on workplace performance.

Craig Steel
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Vantaset is the culmination of our founder’s lifetime work. By identifying the principles that govern human performance, Craig's insights led to a ground-breaking discovery that explained why some athletes won while the majority fell short.

These observations informed 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 engagements led to the development of a transformational leadership programme 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 Craig's 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 he assisted asked him if they could use his process to transform the performance of their entire workforce. This led to the development of what many believe is the world’s best high-performance operating system for business (Performance-OS) which they’ve since ‘digitised’ under the brand Vantaset to make it available to a wider audience.

20+

World Cup and World Championship titles

400%

Telecom Business Directions (Spark) sales increase in just 4 months

50+

Deployments in respected New Zealand businesses

Vantaset’s evolution
1995

Pro-Sport athlete programme introduced

1996

Steel Performance Consultants established

2000

Invitation to pilot process in business
(Telecom Business Directions – now Spark)

2001-2005

Performance tools adapted for business programmes

 

2006-2014

Productivity testing to identify drivers of workplace
performance

2015-2016

Performance frameworks developed

2017

Framework testing completed

2018

Commercial programme suite finalised

2019

Online platform introduced to support business-wide programmes

2021

Rebranded to Vantaset to support migration to PaaS offering

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