Meet the Max Team

The MAX International Team of Fitness Professionals:

We are a very energetic, happy, positive, special and unique team here at The MAX International College for Fitness Professionals!! We are committed to helping you become a Superb international Personal Trainer / Fitness Professional and we want your journey into your new fitness career to be a WOW experience everyday at every one of the MAX International Colleges. You won’t know that unless you start the journey with us, so if you are serious about a long term career in fitness, please let THE MAX Team help you achieve your fitness career goals.

Ben Butler

Australian Director
Senior International Course Coach
International Product Development Director
MAX Coaching Team Director

A veteran of the Fitness Industry, he began his adventure in 1992 when he completed his Fitness Leader Course. A passion for sports and strength training saw him attend and graduate from Southern Cross University in Lismore and the Bowling Green State University in OHIO USA where he was able to learn more about Strength and Conditioning. He graduated in 1998 with a Degree in Human Movement Science. While he was at University, Ben spent most of his time on the gym floors with his bodybuilding buddies exploring the best way to get Bloody HUGE and experimenting with a variety of training methods, supplements and performance enhancing aids-he knows, understands and has experienced-ALL training methods. Ben has an extensive background in Strength Training, Sports Specific Conditioning, Rehabilitation and having developed three Personal Training businesses, has lots to share on the what to do and not to do side of Fitness Business. He also likes chicken and if he had a pet pilchard he would call it Rodney!!

Tom Bellman: AKA “Tommy H” Tom TOM

A superb MAX International Course Coach who is committed to helping you become the superb SUCCESSFUL International Fitness Professional / Personal Trainer that he is! Tom is a MAX Diploma College Graduate, a National College of Business   and he has graduated from Bond University with a double Degree in Sports Management and Health Science. So yes a smart guy however he then applied his, “Book knowledge” to Personal Training, a Fitness Trainer for Fitkids, a membership consultant for the Beachhouse chain of health clubs and now your Coach to help you achieve his success and to share his knowledge and experience. Tom is a positive, happy man who lives what he has learnt and continues to learn, and his technical knowledge is combined with a massive personal development learning curve. We are very happy and very proud to have him on our team and to share him with you.

Ali G

One of our very special, very committed Admin Angels, Ali will do everything she possibly can to help you enjoy your journey at her MAX College. With many years experience in Child Care, Ali is a loving, caring, special lady who wants you to feel special and important everyday AND she will hold you accountable to your good manners, your respect for your class and your college. She will be there from day one right through to organising your Red Carpet, Graduation experience-cheering you on all the way!!

Chris Smith:

Another one of our most experienced International Course Coaches, Chris has a Biomedical Science Degree, he is a superb Personal Trainer and he is an elite athlete-Muay Thai fighting!! Chris has the knowledge, the practical experience and the discipline we all need to become the best at what we do. Chris has an elite level knowledge of anatomy and physiology when combined with his training and teaching experience, he makes learning fun, easy and interesting and he is committed to YOU becoming a knowledgeable, disciplined, Fitness Professional!

Rach

Our beautiful Rach is the Princess of WOW Experiences and all things special that happen in your MAX College!! Rach and her Admin Angel team are responsible for your fun, special, WOW journey through your Diploma Program and they make all the special things happen in your College everyday. Although the team makes them look easy, they take time, great systems and a person who is dedicated to making them happen everyday. Rach is organised, she runs great systems, she has an attention to detail that makes sure things are very rarely missed. Most importantly, everything she does has YOU in mind. Rach is very happy when YOU are happy and when YOU feel welcome, comfortable and at home in her Colleges. Your enrolment, your WOW experiences, your Graduation and your career path-RACH is happily responsible and committed to them all!! When she is not in your College-which is not very often, Rach is a regular exerciser, she lifts weights, she is a talented dancer and she has been dancing since she could walk. Rach loves to go out for breakfast, she loooooves designer shoes and bags and her quality collection of top end designer things shows her commitment to quality and hard work…Rach IS our Mission Statement and we are all very privileged that she plays on our team!!

Michael Dyt: AKA Dytie

Our TALLEST Team Player and committed to helping you become a superb SUCCESSFUL International Fitness Professional!! “Dytie” is committed to helping you learn as much as possible and quickly as possible, in the “funnest” way possible and with his depth of anatomy knowledge, his sporting, training, business and Personal Training background-he has a unique, simple way of explaining even the toughest of concepts. Dytie has Diploma in remedial massage; he has worked with top AFL and Netball teams to help rehabilitate their elite athletes. He has a business degree from Husson College in America, the university he attended on an elite athlete, basketball scholarship and he has run his own massage therapy business. He has been a full time Personal Trainer and he is still a busy part-time Personal Trainer and business owner, even with his more than full-time commitments as your Coach. Dytie is passionate about every session he teaches because he understands the big picture you need to become a long term successful Fitness Professional and he sets the example for giving, caring and personal and professional growth!

Sparkly Susan Admin Angel

A very wise lady with much life experience, a heart of gold and a big, generous spirit who wants to help you feel welcome, happy, special and at HOME!! Susan is on her way to becoming a superb International Fitness Professional just like you so she knows about study, practice, training hard and wanting to have a career she loves and not a job she doesn’t. Susan joined our team from a position as the head housekeeper in some of the top, 5 Star hotels in Queensland. Susan has 2 beautiful children and she is a fit, healthy, strong beach running & half marathon machine-she can often be found, running “ huffy & puffy” on our Surfers Paradise beach. Sparkly Susan has 2 Personal Trainers, one for strength training and one for boxing and she loves and believes in having a Personal Trainer to get the most out of her training sessions by having a professional to help! Sparkly is always working on her own personal and professional development by listening to business and personal development CD’s and reading books. She spends her days helping you to become successful and making sure you have everything you need to have a WOW day-Everyday!!

Greg Evangelou AKA G-SPOT

The MAX International Career Coach: Greg is responsible for finding the people who are PASSIONATE, POSITIVE & PROFESSIONAL and people who are serious about a long term career in fitness; to help us positively change the health & fitness of the world and raise the professional standards of the fitness industry. Having been exposed to poor standards, unprofessional fitness instructors and personal trainers, and his mum is a Health Club Manager, Greg is very serious about his role at MAX. He has made a commitment to the owners and managers of the top health Clubs and PT studios that MAX will only provide them with the best of the best.

Greg is a super fit, elite soccer player, he is fit, healthy and strong and he is committed to getting the world into the same great shape-please help him!

Rowena Szeszeran-McEvoy: MAX College Founder

Rowena has over 25 years experience in the fitness industry where she started as an aerobic instructor at the passionate, young age of 13. She has been a full-time aerobics instructor, aerobic co-ordinator and international aerobic instructor trainer. She has worked full-time as a gym instructor, gym manager and a fitness centre manager in Australia, Belgium and France.

Rowena presents at both national and international fitness conventions on customer service and leadership, and she is a regular International corporate speaker in all areas of business. She has been a full-time personal trainer with 64 clients a week and she owned a PT business where she managed 12 Personal Trainers. In the year 2000, she owned and directed four lifestyle/PT studios.

In her spare time she has written two special motivational books called “HOW to BE HAPPY” & “You Can BE HAPPY 2… Without the Cow Poo!!” and with Kerry, co-authored a health and fitness book called “HOW TO GET FAT… And how not to without the Cow Poo!!”

Hello from Rowie xx…Do you wake up everyday excited about making a difference-would you like to jump out of bed everyday, loving you, your life and your career-would you like to?

I wake up everyday with clear vision of a healthy world where people are fit, healthy strong, energetic and happy. Exercise and a healthy eating plan, with everything in moderation, will not only help to cure the big, killer diseases in the world-it will help to prevent them. If you would like to help make the world a happier, healthier, more positive place to live, please become a MAX International Fitness Professional and we can do it together xx

Kerry McEvoy: MAX College Founder

Kerry has a Masters Degree in Health Science and over 25 years experience in every aspect of the fitness industry. Kerry is recognised as Australia’s leading functional scientist in the area of strength training. His science is anatomy and physiology and there are very few people both nationally and internationally who have his applied knowledge, understanding and practical application in this exact science.

Kerry was the first International conference presenter in the area of strength training and he has been a specialist presenter, both nationally and internationally in the areas of strength training, personal training and strength training for elite athletes. He owned and directed Sports Elite, Australia’s first personal training company to train elite athletes. His clients included Olympic Gold Medallists Chris Fydler and Clint Robinson, multimillion dollar contracted USbaseball players Trent Durrington, David Neilsen and John Jaha, US natural body-building champion Jackie Evans and British Open Golf Champion, Ian Baker Finch. His team clients included the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Kayak team, the national baseball team and the Australian Sports Aerobic team. Kerry began his career as a full-time gym instructor and he taught aerobics for eight years. He was the first Personal Trainer in Queensland and he owned four successful personal training businesses with a large team of Personal Trainers working with him.

He was the technical advisor to over 100 Health Clubs throughout Australia and New Zealand in the area of Personal Training and he is a National and International Corporate Trainer and Educator. He has been the national presenter to the Harvard University Good Health Management Program. Kerry has trained, and continues to train, your MAX International Course Coaches. Now you can benefit from his extensive knowledge, experience and skill base to help you to become an International Fitness Professional!! His Doctorate in Business (in progress) and 20+ years of successful fitness business ownership will be very helpful when you open your own business.

BUT WHO CARES???? What you need to know is Kerry is committed to your fitness business success and if you are serious, he will do whatever it takes to get you ready for Soooper Success in a career that has been his life and love for his entire adult life!!