High Performing Staff = High Performing Athletes
An embedded year-round system to keep performance staff operating at 100% - whatever the challenge.
You can see it happening
The experienced physio is short with a player.Your lead analyst missed something crucial.Your head of S&C mentions burnout - then laughs it off.Your staff are feeling the strain. You know it is happening. But you have no systematic way to monitor it. No proactive framework to address it.They don't suddenly break down. You lose them gradually. And by the time they raise their hand, they're mentally checked out.Most Performance Directors have already tried to solve it. Conferences, one-off workshops, CPD courses.It works short-term. But it does not last.
The problem is not effort
Teams typically spend $50k+ annually on staff development. Conferences, one-off workshops, training courses.Yet studies show 90% is forgotten within a month. And only 12% transfers to workplace behaviour.With 41% of elite sport performance staff meeting the criteria for a diagnosable psychological condition, and burnout rates ranging from 32-89%, research identifies 36 distinct organisational stressors that impact the team behind the team in elite sport. Ones that can't be solved through individual interventions alone.The problem is not effort. The problem is that workshops and courses were never designed to sustainably fix the challenges you face.
When your staff aren't at their best, neither are your athletes
You built this department because it makes players perform better.When your sports scientist is running on 4 hours sleep, your load management decisions suffer.When your physio is mentally checked out, injury prevention slips.Staff capacity is player capacity.
- 3x hamstring injuries when S&C coach or medical department changes (Ekstrand et al., 2023)- 35% more player injuries when head coach changes (Bandalovic. et al., 2025)
Altara fixes this
Our founders have created and led performance programs across some of the most successful teams in the world, including NZ Rugby, Boston Red Sox, UK Special Forces and more.Environments where performance must remain stable under extreme conditions.The difference is that most staff development focuses on individual resilience or episodic knowledge transfer. But neither fix systemic organisational stressors.Our work installs year-round infrastructure that addresses organisational and individual factors simultaneously.
The "Team Behind The Team"
Your staff are already technically brilliant. That's why they're in the role.What's missing is the infrastructure to sustain that brilliance under organisational challenges.We install a year-round system that unlocks sustainable performance through two key areas:
1) High Workload Capacity
Fortnightly pulse-checks identify declining capacity months before crisis. Staff maintain output quality when fixture congestion hits.
2) Optimal Work-Life Harmony
Health, wellbeing, and relationships that don't get sacrificed. Staff who maintain these deliver better athlete care.
Staff see personal trends privately. You see anonymised patterns, early warning signs, and bespoke solutions.When these two foundations are stable, technical proficiency translates into predictable performance - and sustainable excellence.This is not staff wellbeing. This is performance optimisation.
What changes once the system is installed
Problems surface 6 months ahead instead of 6 hours.Data-driven insights remove the guesswork of where to focus.Your development budget produces behaviour change that lasts.Your time is freed up to focus on performance optimisation not firefighting.Your best staff stay long-term.Athletes love the environment.Leadership see your department as industry-leading.
A CLIENT'S STORY
"The professional baseball season is seven months long, often consisting of 70-hour work
weeks.The nonstop, high-pressure environment often leads to burnout, stagnant professional development, and high staff attrition rates.While some offseason episodic workshops have been useful, their impacts are typically blunted by their finite structure, and the inability to apply new tools in real time.Within three months of embedding Altara's system, we saw measurable shifts: wellbeing,
resilience capacity, and life management improved 4-10%. Moreover, 81% of our staff's
performance areas improved, with 85% of our performance staff directly attributing these
improvements to Altara's proactive interventions.The culture shifted from a reactive, grind-driven environment to a more sustainable model where challenges are identified early and addressed proactively. I have no doubt we are a higher performing department for it.- Nick Shedd, Director of Strength & Conditioning, Boston Red Sox
We work until the system works
The objective is not general improvement. And it's not another course or workshop.We embed the system and run it for an entire year - stabilising performance across your department.If your department isn't measurably improving, we help you understand why, and design bespoke interventions to solve this.You're buying results, not a service.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Altara is built for:- Performance Directors in elite sport managing 30+ staff
- Budget holders responsible for $50k+ annual staff development spend
- Organisations seeing little sustained impact from infrequent conferences or one-off workshopsAltara is not for:- Organisations with fewer than 30 performance staff
- Directors seeking one-off workshops
- Organisations unwilling to invest in their staff’s performance and longevity
Secure your founding partner status
If the description above feels accurate, the next step is a short diagnostic call. We assess your department's resilience, pressure points, and whether this system is the right intervention.If it is not a fit, we will tell you.For less than the cost of a 2-day workshop, receive embedded year-round performance optimisation for your team behind the team.Our Founding Partner Exclusive includes a 33% lifetime discount - saving you $5,000+ a year - and is limited to the first 5 organisations.