Redshift Coaching

24/04/2026

09/04/2026

EIT and IdeaSchool have shared a short little piece about myself and my master’s studies.

A traumatic brain injury that ended a 22-year career as an electrician led Dean Hepburn back to study at EIT, where he is now completing a Master of

28/09/2025

The number seven has long been seen as symbolic of cycles of completion and renewal. Today marks exactly seven years since I launched Redshift Electric and today also marks the close of that chapter. But endings are never just endings they are the spark of something new.

It’s been several years now since my accident and I’ve faced many challenges that are making returning to full-time electrical work difficult. While this journey hasn’t been easy, it’s given me clarity that it’s time to take this moment and transform it into something positive, meaningful, and future focused.

I’m excited to announce the next chapter: Redshift Coaching.

I’m deeply grateful for everyone who has supported me over the years with my electrical career and I want to personally thank my clients, customers, companies I’ve contracted to, supporters and especially family and friends. Your encouragement has carried me through every challenge and milestone.

The tool belt may be hanging up for now, but the journey is only just beginning. If you haven’t already, please give Redshift Coaching a follow or a like I’ll be sharing more once this semester wraps up.

18/07/2025

Welcome to Redshift Coaching — A New Chapter Begins

To everyone who has supported Redshift Electric over the past seven years, thank you! Your trust, encouragement and support have meant everything. As I turn the page to launch Redshift Coaching I carry forward the same commitment to excellence, growth and service now with a renewed focus on health, endurance and human potential.

While I’m still available for select small electrical jobs during this transition, my heart and energy are now aligned with a greater mission: to help people unlock their full potential through fitness, wellbeing, cycle coaching, triathlon coaching along with other endurance sport coaching. Redshift Coaching evolves from what I began with Dynamic Coaching NZ and it’s only just beginning.

As I journey through postgraduate study I’ll be diving deeper into endurance sport coaching, coaching and youth sport development and a passion into something transformative. The next few months will be full of learning, building and creating and I’m excited to bring you along as Redshift Coaching grows into something truly extraordinary.

The shift has begun. Stay tuned.

18/07/2025

Coming soon!!

19/06/2025

He Kōrero o Matariki
A Poem of the Stars

By Dean Hepburn

Matariki, mother in the sky,
Rising gently as the cold winds sigh.
She calls us home, her light a flame,
To heal our hearts, to speak each name.

Tupu-ā-rangi, voice of the air,
Gives forest fruits with songbird flare.
The trees bear gifts, the branches sway,
Above, the sky sings life each day.

Tupu-ā-nuku feeds the soul and land,
With kūmara grown by steady hand.
From soil we take, and in return,
We plant with care and let earth learn.

Ururangi, wild and free,
Breath of Tāwhirimātea, child of sea.
He shapes the clouds, he bends the tree,
A restless dance, a spirit’s plea.

Waipunā-ā-rangi cries silver tears,
Awe and thunder through the years.
Her rain feeds root and floods the plain,
She weaves her cloak of soft refrain.

Hiwa-i-te-rangi, star of dreams,
She gathers all our hopes and schemes.
We speak them true beneath her light,
And send them soaring through the night.

Waitī flows where rivers gleam,
In dancing brooks and crystal stream.
She hums of eels and glistening trout,
A lifeblood threading in and out.

Waitā roars with ocean’s might,
Where tides and fish in moonlight write.
She gathers kai beneath the foam,
And guides our waka safely home.

Pōhutukawa whispers in the dawn,
Of those we’ve lost, now gently gone.
Their memories drift on mist and breeze,
In every shadow, in rustling trees.

So as Matariki climbs once more,
We stand together on the shore
To grieve, to feast, to dream, to sing,
And welcome in the year’s first spring.

📷-NZ Parliament website

06/06/2025

Here is a little poem I’ve written on my portfolio page.

“Wired for Aotearoa: A tribute to New Zealand’s Electricians”
By Dean Hepburn

From Kaitaia’s hills to Bluff’s sea spray,
Through frozen dawns and sunburned days,
They climb they crawl, they test and trace,
Electrical hearts in every place.

In boots worn thin, with hands well tried,
They walk where cables twist and hide,
Behind each wall, beneath each floor,
They spark the life we all adore.

Out in the paddocks, humming with bees,
Up poles that sway in the coastal breeze,
They stand with tools, calm and prepared
Safety checked and voltage dared.

Whether wiring homes or rigging sites,
They bring the dark back into light.
A socket fixed, a panel tamed,
Each quiet job, a skill unnamed.

Kiwi proud, they know the code,
Of earth and neutral, of risk and load.
It’s not just wires they thread with care,
It’s trust and grit that flows around here.

So here’s to those who light our way,
Who power dreams by night and day,
New Zealand’s sparkies, behind the scene,
The humble hands of bright unseen.

17/12/2024