Our Team

Mike Searson

GrowFit Founder/CEO

Diploma of Fitness – Fitness Institute Australia

With over a decade of Personal Training under his belt, Mike has set himself a new challenge; to redirect the way Australians think about health & fitness through the creation of his business GrowFit aimed at children 1-5 years.

In 2008 he began developing the foundations for the GrowFit program along side of his personal training, trialing at a preschool centre in Castle Hill. He found the best method was to completely structure each session around game based learning, with each individual activity lasting no longer then 5 minutes to keep the children attentive and achieve the best possible results. Now the GrowFit program is run in over 70 different centres across Sydney every week and around 2000 children every term.

“The evidence is clear: Active children are simply more likely to mature into physically active adults. The benefits of sport and physical activity for children are limitless, including a reduced risk of obesity, increased cardiovascular fitness, improved coordination and balance, better sleep and improved social skills. But I think the thing that motivates me the most is the fact that we have the opportunity to be the best part every child’s day!”

Mike Searson – GrowFit Founder/CEO

Alix Burgess

Early Childhood Advisor and Curriculum Coordinator

Diploma of Children Services
Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education)

Alix has been working within the early childhood industry for the past 12 years. In this time she has had the opportunity to work with children of all ages across Sydney and internationally. Alix was attracted to the GrowFit program as it recognised the fundamental importance of developing healthy lifestyle habits and knowledge in children at this very crucial age.

“GrowFit allows me to draw on my experience and knowledge in an exciting new way to help create engaging and educationally linked learning experiences that intentionally instil holistic lifestyle practises.”

Annette Harrison

Support Manager

I met Mike at the gym back in 2011 when GrowFit was still in its early stages. Since then I have watched GrowFit grow to become the fantastic thriving business that it is today.This is largely due to Mike’s absolute passion for educating our children to have the healthiest and happiest future possible!

As a mum and with past experience as a Kindermusik educator I share Mike’s passion for teaching our children and was very keen to get on board and help support him in his goal when he asked me to take over the administrative role.

Rowena Tababan

Family Membership Support Manager

I started with GrowFit back in 2019 with a few hours each week. Now I work everyday to support the numbers of happy healthy families participating in a GrowFit program.

If you have any questions in regards to your weekly payments or you need to hold off due to a holiday or changing days. Please feel free to get in touch I’m here to help.

rowena@growfit.com.au

phone 8935 6417

And remember Being Fit is Fun!

DaFit Club Manager

Certificate 3 & 4 Fitness Institute Australia

I have been interested in health and fitness my whole life, playing and excelling at many sports. I have picked up many skills from playing different sports and I love to teach the kids these skills to help them get a kick start on their own health and fitness journey.

I started working with GrowFit in 2012 helping Mike with his first few preschools. I also work as a personal trainer, it is great fun and rewarding working on goals with clients but nothing will beat the excited smiles on the faces of the children when I arrive to the preschool before we start our Growfit session.

Equipment Manager

Hi I’m Tim,

I make sure everything is where it is meant to be.

Sustainability is a top priority to us!

One way we have learnt to minimise wastage is by maximising our equipment use. This is why we have split our teams into four groups.

Meet our team of early childhood health & fitness specialists: