Evan Spargo
High Performance. Under Real Pressure.
High Performance Coach & Facilitator
I help performance-driven organisations support their leaders and teams navigate pressure and interpersonal dynamics, and deliver on the performance goals of the business.
Your best performer gets promoted and nobody trains them for the job.
Your highest performers get the least attention, and leave first.
A leadership team agrees in the room and unravels in the carpark.
A transformation gets funded, announced, and quietly stalls.
None of this is a talent problem.
It's what happens when performance outpaces the capacity underneath it, in a person, or in a team.
I've spent two decades on both sides of that gap: as an international athlete who hit it personally, and as a coach who's spent 2,800+ hours helping leaders and teams close it.
Two Ways to Work With Me
For Organisations
Leadership coaching, team development, and structured programs for performance-driven organisations across Australia and Asia, built for leaders and teams under real pressure, not another program that fades by Monday.
For Individuals
Private coaching for executives, founders and high performers who look like they have it together, and privately know they're capable of more than they're currently living.
How I Actually Work
I don't tell people what they want to hear. I tell them what they need to hear.
I pay attention, and I reflect back exactly what I see, the pattern everyone else in the room is either too close to notice, or too polite to say out loud. The unwritten rules running underneath the org chart. The thing everyone privately knows and nobody's named.
I don't hand out answers. I pull them out of the people already in the room, because the solutions were usually already there, just never said out loud.
One client put it more plainly than I ever would: "Evan sorts teams out."
Not gently. Properly.
What This Isn't
It isn't a workshop that peaks in the room and evaporates by Friday
It isn't generic leadership theory with no skin in the game
It isn't telling you what you already believe about yourself, or your team
It's direct, evidence-based work for people and teams who want the change that actually holds.
Even when that's uncomfortable to hear.
Proof, Not Promises.
MCC (ICF) top 3% of coaches worldwide
2,800+ hours coaching leaders, executives and teams
International athlete represented the Philippines in Rugby Sevens, including the 2017 SEA Games & 2019 Olympic Qualifiers
5 years captaining AFL Philippines to its first-ever Division 1 title
Training with Hintsa Performance, the methodology used with F1 drivers and elite athletes, completing October 2026
3 years running a structured development program worldwide, proof that change built to last outperforms a weekend high every time
Kelly Gough, HR & Organisational Development Leader
"Evan’s skill and observation were remarkable, precise, compassionate, and able to help me see what had felt seemingly resistant to change."
Where I Work
Based on the Gold Coast, with a presence in Melbourne, working with performance-driven organisations across Australia and Asia in-person, and with individuals worldwide online.
About Evan
I know this territory because I've lived it.
I represented my country in elite sport while quietly falling apart underneath it.
I built the Australian arm of an international coaching academy from nothing.
I've captained a team to a title that had never been won.
And I've been low enough to have to rebuild from scratch, more than once.
That's not a bio. It's the reason I know what it takes to close the gap between how someone looks and how they're actually performing, for a person, and for a team.
What Client’s Are Saying
Ready?
Whether it's your leadership team, your emerging leaders, or yourself, the conversation starts the same way.
