Making better health achievable for all.

Brad is the Founder and Managing Director of Synergy Health. He has spent 27 years helping large, complex organisations across APAC build wellbeing and engagement their people genuinely own.

He challenges one-size-fits-all, population-level interventions in favour of values-based approaches where employer and employee share responsibility, and where behaviour change is treated as a craft. He is known for energetic, practical delivery that focuses on applying the ideas, not just hearing them. He holds a Master's in Industrial and Organisational Psychology and a Diploma in Sports Studies.

Building Synergy Health

• Built an APAC workplace wellbeing and engagement consultancy, independently rated the region's leading provider by Manage HR Magazine.
• Oversees projects delivered to clients including NZ Police, Fonterra, ASB, Kiwibank and Santos, with average enterprise retention of over nine years.
• Leads development of Sage, an AI wellbeing assistant drawing on an evidence-based library, organisation policies and individual Wellbeing Scorecard results.
• Designs bespoke programs, including Kura Wellbeing for schools.

On stage

• Panellist, Global Resilience and Awe Symposium, New York Police Department and Columbia University
• Keynote, Human Resource Institute of New Zealand National Conference
• Keynote, Independent Schools of New Zealand National Conference
• Keynote, Ministry of Education Learning Symposium
• Keynote, Zeroharm CEO Business Summit
• Keynote, Ancestral Health of New Zealand Symposium
• Keynote, ExerciseNZ Conference: The Art of Behaviour Change
• Guest speaker, Annual Clinical and Organisational Psychology Conference

Rated Best Speaker at numerous conferences including the Safety 360 Conference and the OD (re)Design Conference.

"The most engaging presenter I think I've ever witnessed! Great content!"

Conference delegate

Brian has achieved a lot of success over his business career. He has consistently shown an innovative approach to tackling business (and customer!) challenges.

Asia Pacific World - Travel

Brian previously owned and operated New Zealand's largest independent travel company, managing seven branches and a team of 100 staff. Under his leadership, the business became an award-winning market leader known for its innovative marketing. To streamline operations, Brian pioneered the creation of a unique, in-house back-end software platform. This system dramatically drove efficiencies - reducing staffing requirements by over 50% within two years while simultaneously increasing turnover - before the company was successfully bought out by competitors.

G4M (Gifts for Men)

Driven by an eye for innovation, Brian created G4M, a unique retail and online store designed to simplify gift shopping for men. The business used a clever profiling approach, allowing customers to classify the man they were shopping for into one of seven distinct styles to find the perfect match. This ground-breaking concept earned G4M the prestigious GIA Innovative Retailer award. Brian then went on to represent New Zealand on the world stage in Chicago, where G4M won the global title against international retail giants like Ikea and Selfridges.

Martin has spent more than 20 years in the workplace health and wellbeing industry, over 15 of them with Synergy Health. He manages a portfolio of client organisations, working closely with their leaders and teams to make sure their wellbeing programs deliver real value to their people.

His approach starts with listening. Before suggesting a solution, Martin takes the time to understand what each organisation is really trying to achieve: its people, its pressures and its culture. He blends the proven with the new, applying strategies that work in fresh ways while bringing new ideas when a situation calls for it, often co-designing solutions alongside the client.

Martin is also a vital link between clients and the business. He brings the insights and feedback he gathers back into Synergy Health, helping shape future programs and initiatives so they stay grounded in what organisations actually need.

What Martin brings

• Long-standing client partnerships built on trust, consistency and a genuine understanding of each organisation
• A curious, listening-first approach that gets to the real need behind a request
• Creative problem solving: finding new and better ways to deliver wellbeing outcomes
• Turning client insight into action, helping shape Synergy Health's future initiatives
• More than two decades of hands-on experience across the workplace wellbeing industry

Amber leads delivery of our core workshops, including ReSet, ReWork, GoodYarn and Boundaries Under Pressure. She also leads the development and delivery of Kura Wellbeing, our innovative wellbeing program for the education sector, and regularly creates new content tailored to client needs.

Qualified in Human Resource Management, with certificates in Motivational Counselling and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST), Amber is known for creating an engaging, practical environment where people can reflect, participate, challenge their thinking and turn insight into meaningful action.

Amber brings a unique approach, combining 15+ years of experience as an HR practitioner with expertise in facilitation, wellbeing and behaviour change. Her background spans change management, leadership and organisational development, recruitment and employment relations. This blend of practical HR experience and people-focused facilitation means Amber understands the workplace realities participants face and can connect ideas with practical strategies that make a difference. Her approach is grounded, relatable and highly practical creating a connection between individual ownership and organisational outcomes.

Amber's presenting experience is diverse, ranging from large audiences at Sea World through to being a guest speaker at the Fiji OHS Psychosocial Conference. Amber also gets invited to MC leadership days and conferences for executive leadership teams. She has delivered health and wellbeing programs across a wide range of sectors, including government, financial services, education and numerous other industries.

Amber consistently receives exceptional feedback for her energetic delivery and her ability to connect with any audience. She creates an inclusive, professional space that encourages participation and keeps learning focused on real outcomes.

"Amber has a very engaging style that makes everyone very comfortable to fully participate. I've had the majority of the team tell me how useful it was for them, both in a work and personal sense."

Sally brings more than 20 years of experience across client relationship management, technology, customer service and people leadership, including over six years with Synergy Health. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the University of Canterbury.

Her approach is built around strong relationships, open communication and a genuine interest in understanding what makes each organisation unique. Sally works closely with clients to develop wellbeing programs that are relevant, engaging and tailored to their people. She particularly enjoys the creative side of her role, developing fresh ideas for challenges, campaigns and activities that encourage participation and bring colleagues together.

With a background in software consulting, account management and content creation, Sally is also an important link between clients and the wider Synergy Health team. She works collaboratively across content, marketing and product development to turn client needs and ideas into practical solutions.

Outside her professional role, Sally has served as President of the Ōpāwa St Martins Plunket Toy Library committee for 10 years, reflecting her longstanding commitment to her local community.

What Sally brings

• Strong client relationships built on trust, open communication and a genuine understanding of each organisation
• A creative approach to developing engaging wellbeing challenges, campaigns and initiatives
• Over 20 years of experience across client management, technology and people leadership
• The ability to connect client needs with practical solutions, working collaboratively across teams
• A positive, organised and solutions-focused approach to delivering great client experiences

Jamie is the intellectual engine behind much of Synergy Health's content and frameworks, bridging scientific rigour and practical delivery that works in real workplaces. He began presenting onsite for Synergy Health soon after the company was founded, joined full time in 2008, and designed the 10 Healthy Habits that became the cornerstone of its early programs. After 2016 he worked independently in workplace wellbeing alongside his private practice, before returning to Synergy Health. Across a career of nearly 30 years, 25 of them in workplace wellbeing, he has stood in front of the same frontline, shift-working and high-pressure workforces that Synergy Health's programs now reach online.

His work treats energy as a unifying framework for wellbeing. Physical, emotional, mental and existential energy make up the capacity people bring to growing demands, and burnout is what happens when demands outrun that capacity for too long. His core belief is that looking after the people who look after the customers is a priority, not a luxury. His private coaching practice works the same way: most of it supports people through work, relationship and family stressors, with nutrition, sleep and activity as the foundation of their mental and emotional health.

He holds a Bachelor of Physical Education (Physical Activity & Health), a Bachelor of Science (Human Nutrition), and postgraduate diplomas in Sport & Exercise Medicine and in Nutrition Medicine.

At Synergy Health

• Designed the 10 Healthy Habits, the original framework behind Synergy Health's programs, and built content around them covering physical health, mental health and emotional regulation.
• Researches and produces multimedia content for Synergy Health's programs, from written articles to video, presentations, webinars, and learning modules.
• Leads the science and fact-checking across all eight wellbeing domains, and has written and regularly updates the knowledge base behind Sage, Synergy Health's client-facing AI assistant.

In the workplace

• New Zealand Defence Force: contracted on reputation from 2016 to 2020 to work with personnel and their medical team on nutrition-related health issues.
• Airways New Zealand: presenter on the stress management course for people working in air traffic control from 2015 to 2020. The brief started with nutrition and was extended into energy management as a framework for fatigue, exhaustion and burnout.
• Lion NZ, Healthy Hospo: brought in to deliver the nutrition workshop, then extended to design and deliver a leadership program on burnout and wellbeing for hospitality leaders. Presented the program on behalf of Lion NZ at the Hospitality New Zealand conference in 2022.
• Ngāi Tahu Tourism: travelled New Zealand from 2016 to 2020 presenting to various business units on sleep and fatigue in shift work, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, physical activity and energy.
• Flight Centre New Zealand: South Island Health and Wellbeing Specialist for the Healthwise program from 2016 to 2020, working one to one with people on physical and mental health and connecting them to EAP support.

Research and writing

• Lead researcher and writer of The 4-Season Solution (Atria Books, 2020) for Dallas Hartwig, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole30. Wrote most of the book in 14 months, covering seasonality, circadian rhythms, sleep, food, movement and social connection, and introduced the idea that people do best when they have connections to people (including themselves), places, purpose and passions.
• Researched and designed More Social, Less Media, a behaviour change program on social media use and mental health built on BJ Fogg's behaviour change model, and wrote and produced its daily video scripts filming on location in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Editorial and fact-checking work on It Starts With Food (Victory Belt, 2012) and The Whole30 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015).
• Research-based writing for US author and podcaster Steph Gaudreau on protein and carbohydrate needs for women and within-day energy deficits.

On stage

• Invited speaker, Ancestral Health Symposium, USA, 2011 to 2016, on topics including workplace wellness through an evolutionary lens, the developmental origins of health and disease, and the role of muscle mass in health and disease (over 15,000 views on YouTube).
• Founder and President, Ancestral Health Society of New Zealand, a multidisciplinary group looking at wellbeing through an evolutionary lens. Lead organiser of two international symposia and presenter at national and regional events, including on men's mental health.
• Keynote, Australasian Turfgrass Association Conference, presenting in tandem with a clinical psychologist on mental health, nutritional psychology and suicide prevention.
• Full-day workshops for CrossFit communities across Australia, New Zealand, and USA, and talks for athletic groups from school rowing squads to triathletes, runners and mountain bikers.
• Guest on multiple podcasts and conference panellist.

"My energy levels are much higher and more consistent (no more mid-afternoon slump)... My brain feels sharp and alert."

Stress management course participant, Airways New Zealand

Brenda works in the content team at Synergy Health, bringing creative ideas to life through engagement campaigns that get members involved. With more than 15 years of experience across design, content, communications and digital marketing, she combines a strong visual eye with a knack for finding fresh ways to connect with audiences. She holds a Bachelor of Design Innovation and a Bachelor of Design (Honours) from Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, along with qualifications in digital marketing and communications. Outside of work, she's probably taking up a new hobby, trying a new recipe, or rearranging the lounge.

Since joining Synergy Health as a Designer in 2020, Brenda has moved into her current role as Producer, working across campaign concepts, design, delivery, and performance reporting. She also keeps content calendars running smoothly behind the scenes.

Brenda enjoys growing Synergy Health's Special Offers offering by discovering new businesses and building relationships. She's also passionate about creating opportunities for members to connect over shared interests, including the members' book club she helped bring to life.

Having worked with large organisations in New Zealand and internationally, Brenda understands workplace dynamics and enjoys finding creative ways to make content relevant and engaging.

At Synergy Health, Erika is the first point of contact for user enquiries, helping people access the information and assistance they need. She also works on our client content and enjoys building clear, accessible learning modules and interactive team challenges that promote employee wellbeing, connection and positive workplace cultures.

With a keen eye for detail and a people-focused approach, Erika combines creativity and strong communication skills with a genuine interest in employee experience. Her qualifications in business, marketing, human resource management and life coaching complement her practical experience and passion for helping people feel connected and valued at work.

What Erika brings

• A passion for employee wellbeing and creating positive workplace experiences that help people feel engaged, connected and valued
• A collaborative approach to building positive relationships and helping initiatives run smoothly
• A focus on understanding user needs and creating learning content and communications that are clear, engaging and relevant
• A flexible, solutions-focused approach to coordinating projects and responding to diverse client needs
• A commitment to helping clients deliver engaging wellbeing initiatives that make a meaningful difference to their people