At the heart of every successful business is a strong purpose and for A Team Tuition that purpose has been born out of its founder's life story. As a child, Hayden McEvoy struggled in school and was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). A few years later, he turned to swimming to gain control and he not only excelled in the pool, but found a way to get his education back on track.

“It was the hardest year of my life physically, but I succeeded in becoming a national level swimmer and I thought why shouldn’t I be able to apply the same level of effort and succeed in school?,” said Hayden McEvoy, Founder of A Team Training.

Determined to make it happen, McEvoy spent the next year researching and developing a plan that would help him to take control of his learning. The plan worked and McEvoy lifted himself up from a D student to an A student and went on to study biomedicine and psychology. It was only when looking for a part-time job at university that he thought to himself that others might benefit from the techniques he developed and so he decided to become a tutor.

McEvoy took on one student, then two, then three and before long he was building a team in his mom’s living room to keep up with demand. A Team Tuition’s growth continued at a rapid pace of 80% YoY for the next eight years before its systems and processes started to cave under the pressure. Needing a way to scale and deliver a better experience to more students, the business turned to Salesforce.

In its first few months of using Salesforce, A Team Tuition has gone on to streamline many more of its processes and create vast efficiencies in how it does business. One of the biggest benefits for parents and students has been reducing the registration process from two to three weeks down to one day. This has resulted from the efficiency of using just one system and also by leveraging Salesforce Maps to match students with local tutors who are experts in the right subjects. In the past, this step alone would take 25 minutes of sorting through spreadsheets. Now, it takes five seconds.

A Team Tuition has also reduced the time and hassle of internal processes like payroll and reporting, and is able to better track the performance of tutors and students. It has also reduced the time and effort of preparing forecasts and increased forecast accuracy by 18%.