I Know What It’s Like to Be Trapped Inside My Own Potential
I spent years playing the game by those rules before I started playing by my own
I picked up skills and tactics quickly. Most things came easily to me. I didn’t have to try too hard to get most of the results, and when things were rolling I felt great. Which is what made not being able to bring it when it mattered most so heartbreaking.
When the lights were brightest and the pressure was on I felt compressed. Squeezed down until there was no slack in my system at all.
It felt like everyone around me could read my defeated thoughts clearly — like they were on display for the whole room to see.
How could I learn so easily and have this feel so impossibly hard?
I've spent 15 years finding that answer — inside some of the most demanding performance environments in the world.
I earned my PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from West Virginia University and I'm a Certified Mental Performance Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, the gold standard credential in the field of Performance Psychology. I've held academic appointments at Boston University and Western Colorado University, and spent three years as the embedded Mental Performance Coach for the Chicago Blackhawks before stepping into my current role as their Manager of Learning and Development.
But the credential that matters most to your work with me can't be framed and hung on a wall.
It's this: I've lived the transformation I coach. I know what it's like to be the most capable person in the room AND to be stuck on the sideline.
And I know what it takes to break free.
Want to know if this is the right fit?
What Working at the Highest Levels Taught Me
Working inside elite organizations and high-stakes environments has taught me things about peak performance that I couldn't have learned anywhere else.
On Greatness
Elite performance is as unique as your fingerprint and frankly, it's mundane. The best performers aren't doing anything dramatic. They're doing the boring things consistently — recovery, fueling, intentional rest, and the structures of support that most people overlook entirely in their pursuit of the next edge. And they're doing it in a way that honors that no one else is just like them, and their path to excellence should mirror that.
On Negative Space
The key transformation when going from pretty good to truly elite isn't more effort. It's negative space. Doing less. Being more intentional. Learning to fully switch off when it's time to step away. The performers who couldn't do that, always on, always grinding, always optimizing, were the ones whose performance never met their true ceiling.
On Identity and Performance
This one was the most familiar. The fusion of self-worth and performance. When who you are becomes inseparable from how you perform, the most important moments can never be an opportunity. They can only be a threat. And that threat wreaks havoc on your ability to be your best consistently — no matter how talented, prepared, or experienced you are.
Why was this so familiar? Because it was my story too…
Ready to find out what's possible on the other side?
This Work Is Not For Everyone
The work I do isn't mental skills training. It isn't strategy or optimization or another framework to layer on top of the ones that haven't worked.
It's transformation at the level of being.
Here's what that means in practice. First we work to see your current rules of engagement clearly, because those rules are exactly what's standing between you and what you want. Then we watch how those rules play out across your entire life. Not just in your chosen craft. Everywhere.
From there you'll do what's predictable: you'll try to win the game from within the rules. You'll apply everything you have to solving the puzzle that's held you trapped this long. And eventually you'll see what I've seen with every client who has done this work: the only way out is to step into something new entirely.
That’s when transformation really begins to take root
This is why the work takes a significant investment on your part. We need time. Time to see your patterns more clearly. Time for you to try and solve the puzzle. And time for you to feel seen and supported as you step into something new, make a mess, learn from it, and try again.
This isn't for someone looking for a quick fix or to have their tires pumped.
It's for someone who's ready to do the deep work of transforming into the person and performer they've always known they could be.
Are You Ready?
You've always known you were built for more than this.
The question isn't whether you're capable. You've always known the answer to that. The question is whether you're ready to stop playing the game that's keeping you stuck and step into something new.
If you are, I'd like to hear from you.