Our Team
Meet Dallas Alexander, our General Manager and co-owner who started with our company in 2016. With a background in sales and insurance Dallas has worked his way from sales consultant to team leader and now to his current position as General Manager. Dallas oversees day to day operations of the business, strategic growth, and overall management of the company.
Dallas has a passion for customised hands on training solutions that work and he is heavily involved in this aspect of our business by consulting with clients and overseeing the development of our tailor made, in house training courses.
In his free time, Dallas is a bit of a petrol-head and loves spending time preparing and driving his race car at circuits around the country. When the weather is sunny, you can find him cruising on his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Lynn emigrated from South Africa in 2011 with her family, and resides in Auckland. Lynn is a highly experienced business professional with a background as an Industrial Phsychologist along with 20 years experience in facilitation and learning and development.
As a dedicated and highly engaging facilitator, Lynn has worked with diverse groups of all ages, cultures, and levels from senior management teams in large corporate organisations to schools. Lynn has a passion for empowering teams to develop their skills to function at their best. She has a proven track record of success in delivering our public courses and our tailor made in house programmes.
Lynn believes in delivering training that has practical and tangible models and mechanisms that participants can implement immediately. Being beneficial not only to their professional but also their personal lives and delivering maximum results when applied. With techniques that are anchored in a memorable manner so participants can take what is applicable to them, enabling them to change from functioning normally to functioning optimally.
Garth comes to Business Training New Zealand with a considerable amount of experience across many sectors including retail, finance and social services. He has worked with organisations such as The Warehouse, McDonald's and Westpac.
Garth's experience includes over twenty years in learning and development training, along with roles in operations management, human resources and account management. Garth has also developed two business ventures from conception through to commercialisation and is a published author.
Garth is passionate about helping people learn, grow and prosper. His wealth of knowledge and experience not only provides credibility, it also demonstrates that he has 'walked the talk'!
Meet Gerry Hassan, one of the most experienced facilitators in the country! Gerry's work with BTNZ spans back to 2007, he has since worked with thousands of participants. With a background in the retail industry, where he successfully established and managed his own stores, Gerry made a career transition to become a dedicated trainer and facilitator after selling his business.
Since then, he has delivered BTNZ training programmes for a wide and diverse group of clients in the areas of management and leadership, customer service excellence, communication strategies, time management, conflict resolution and sales skills.
Gerry brings a dynamic, enthusiastic, fun and passionate approach to his facilitation, having delivered hundreds of workshops, imparting his wealth of knowledge and expereince.
Meet Renee Evans, our Training Coordinator who has been with BTNZ since 2014. Renee is a whizz at keeping things moving and in order, managing all administrative, logistical, and organisational aspects of the company. With a Bachelor's degree in Product Development from Massey University, Renee brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the role.
When she's not at work, Renee loves spending time with her two teenage children, supporting them in their school and sporting interests. She is also a passionate gardener and loves to spend weekends tending to her garden. Her favourite crops are passionfruit and blackberries during the summer months, and yams and leeks during winter.
Renee is a dog lover and has grown up with dogs her entire life. She currently has an eight year old labrador who loves early morning walks, eating and hiding the family's shoes!
Tracy is the Business Development Consultant for the Palmerston North and Wellington regions. Tracy joined our team in 2018 and has since played a pivotal role in expanding our business in those regions. With 17 years experience in the travel industry, Tracy brings a wealth of customer service experience to the role.
When Tracy is not working, she's a busy mum to two children and a military husband. Originally from Christchurch, Tracy has a passion for baking and often brings treats to the office for the team to taste test. She is also an avid fan of Marvel and Jason Statham films.
Tracy has a great sense of humour and loves hearing a good joke, no matter how cheesy it may be. She is also a plant lover with a large collection of house plants and a desire for even more!
Say hello to Stevie Dawson, our Business Development Consultant who takes care of the training needs of our clients in the Auckland and Waikato regions. Stevie joined our team in early 2023 and she has been making an impact ever since.
Originally from Rotorua, Stevie moved to Palmerston North in 2023 with her two young boys, aged 2 and 4. With a background in healthcare and retail, Stevie graduated from a Bachelor of Nursing program in 2019. While Stevie enjoyed her nursing career, she was looking for something new and exciting that would allow her to maintain a healthy work-life balance, which is what led her to join our team.
Stevie is passionate about people, which is evident in the way she looks after our clients and their training needs. In her spare time, Stevie enjoys spending time with her family and friends and her furry companion, Baz!
Kylie joined the BTNZ team in early 2024 as the Business Development Consultant for the Hawke's Bay and Christchurch regions. Kylie is people focussed and she prides herself on building lasting relationships with her clients, exceeding their expectations and supporting them to make informed decisions.
Since moving to New Zealand from the UK in 2008 Kylie has worked in the dog grooming industry. In her spare time Kylie loves to adventure with her 2 children and spend time with her 3 pups, competing in dog agility and other sports with her two terriers Zoom and Quiz.
Suzy has an extensive leadership development and soft skills training background, spanning over 25 years throughout the USA, England, Australia and New Zealand. Having worked in Marketing, Sales, Training and Leadership Development roles from the shop floor to senior management, Suzy has experienced firsthand what really works in today’s cut-throat business environment.
Suzy founded BTNZ back in the late 2000's after identifying a gap in the market for hands on and practical leadership development solutions. Since then, BTNZ has grown to become a market leader. After many years of hard work building the company, Suzy has now taken a step back and is generally focussed on content development. Suzy travels the world attending various leadership seminars, conferences and training courses, to keep up to date with current trends, ensuring our content is relevant and current for today's leaders.
