Meet our coaches

Optimize Mind Performance has assembled the world’s leading minds in the mental performance space to assist athletes in achieving peak performance.

Dr Ross Flowers

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Dr. Ross Flowers

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Dr. Ross Flowers is a counseling psychologist, former elite track and field athlete, and coach with over 20 years of experience in sport psychology.

Based in Los Angeles, he has worked with leading organizations including the San Francisco Giants, LA Lakers, LA Clippers, LA Rams, and United States Olympic Team.

He has helped some of the world’s best athletes achieve their goals on and off the field.

Dr Philippa McGregor

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Dr Philippa McGregor

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Dr Philippa McGregor is a performance psychologist who has spent the last decade working with some of the world’s best male and female soccer players in the UK, Europe and Australia.

She has worked with Manchester City, Fulham and the English Football Association, while also helping Lacrosse players, gymnasts, professional golfers and cricketers achieve their peak mental performance.

As well as working in sport Coach McGregor has also assisted business and education leaders across the globe, and helped organizations and businesses to develop their culture and leadership programs.

Dr Mike Rotheram

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Dr. Mike Rotheram

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Dr. Mike Rotheram is a sports psychologist with over 20 years of experience in high performance sport, and a PhD in overcoming the dreaded yips.

For nearly a decade he has worked with the world’s best male and female cricketers in his role as one of the psychologists at English Cricket.

He has also worked alongside international speed skaters, netballers, divers, and archers from the United Kingdom as they broke world records and achieved their goals at World Championships, Commonwealth and Olympic Games.

Dr Brett Haskell

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Dr Brett Haskell

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Dr. Brett Haskell is a sport psychologist with over a decade’s experience working with athletes from the college level through to elite professionals.

For nearly a decade Coach Haskell was Director of Sport Psychology at the University of Nebraska Athletic Department where alongside her team she worked to give cornhuskers athletes psychological skills training and mental health assistance so they could perform at a high level.

Currently Coach Haskell serves as the consulting team psychologist for a Major League Baseball team where she supports the psychological health, wellbeing, and performance of MLB players through mental health education, mental health policies and procedures, and individual services.

Additionally, Coach Haskell is the Director of Clinical Mental Health and Performance for the National Women’s Soccer League providing clinical mental health advocacy and consultative support to all 14 professional football clubs and oversees league policies and procedures regarding player mental health and mental performance.

She is also the Chief Performance Officer and a principal owner of Momentum Labs LLC, a company focused on ensuring youth athletes have access to the same mental training as their elite college and professional sport peers.

Coach Haskell also work one on one with a number of c-suite executives and professional athletes to provide them with Leadership and Performance Coaching.

Geoff Miller

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Geoff Miller

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Geoff Miller is a highly regarded expert in baseball psychology. He has spent the past 17 years working in the MLB, with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, and Philadelphia Phillies.

An AASP Certified Mental Performance Coach (CMPC), Geoff holds a Masters Degree in Sports Psychology, and currently provides mental skills coaching to professional and amateur athletes, corporate coaching to executives and business teams, and coaching for retiring athletes transitioning into post-playing careers.

Dr Kacey Oiness

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Dr Kacey Oiness

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Dr. Kacey Oiness, is a licensed counseling psychologist, who specializes in sport and performance psychology.

Coach Oiness has a great understanding of the pressures that high-level athletes face, as a former level 10 gymnast who competed collegiately at Iowa State University, she utilized mental skills to become a top-performer.

After graduating, Coach Oiness spent four years as a sport psychologist at St. Vincent Sports Performance in Indianapolis where I worked with athletes at Purdue University Athletics Department, Butler Athletics Department, and the Indiana Fever.

Later she became Director of Counseling and Sport Psychology Services for UNLV Athletics where she helped athletes across all sports get into the right headspace to perform at their best.

Currently, Coach Oiness is Chief Experience Officer and a principal owner of Momentum Labs LLC and consults as a sport psychologist for the Vegas Golden Knights in the NHL, WNBA team the Las Vegas Aces, cheerleading squad the Raiderettes, and the UNLV Men’s Basketball program.

Dr Michael Lloyd

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Dr Michael Lloyd

Dr Michael Lloyd is a sports psychologist with over 20 years of experience in high performance sport.

In 16 years as Lead Psychologist with Cricket Australia he worked alongside men’s and women’s cricketers as they won multiple world cups and achieved world number one status as both teams and individuals across all three formats.

Former Senior Sports Psychologist at the Australian Institute of Sport and Queensland Academy of Sport, Coach Lloyd worked with Olympians and world champions in sports such as Swimming, Netball, Rowing, Australian Rules Football, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Triathlon, and Cycling.

Until recently, Coach Llyod consulted to Queensland Cricket, working with players from youth pathway programs through to athletes on the cusp of national selection. He is currently the National Psychology Manager at Tennis Australia.

Dr Meg Popovic

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Dr Meg Popovic

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Dr. Meg Popovic is a mental skills coach with over two decades in high performance sport.

Coach Popovic spent five years at the Toronto Maple Leads in the NHL, becoming the Director of Athlete Wellbeing and Performance, creating programs and processes at individual, team-of-teams, and organizational levels.

Her work at the Leafs included staff/athlete and departmental professional development, talent identification at NHL Drafts and NHL Combines, mind training programs, coaching workshops, and athlete engagement initiatives for current roster and development-system players.

Coach Popovic has also consulted to the NHL, professional cycling team the Ineos Grenadiers, Major League Baseball, the English Premier League, and the National Basketball Association.

Dr Andrea Wieland

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Dr Amanda Gatherer

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Dr Amanda Gatherer is a Clinical Psychologist with over thirty years of experience including two decades working with athletes in high performance sport through the English Institute of Sport.

Currently Coach Gatherer assists athletes with their mental health as a member of the United Kingdom Sports Institute Mental Health Expert Panel, working with Olympic and Paralympic athletes, and provides mental health consultancy to male and female England Cricketers.

Coach Gatherer travelled to the Tokyo and Beijing Paralympic Games to support Paralympics GB athletes and staff, and led the mental health clinical team based in the athlete villages at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Dr Sam Maniar

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Dr Sam Maniar

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Dr. Sam Maniar is a sport psychologist with over 20 years of experience in high performance sport.

He has worked with thousands of high school, college, amateur, professional, and Olympic athletes across most major sports.

Sam has also spent time working with teams in the MLB, NCAA, and NFL (including the Cleveland Browns).

Prof. Abigail Eiler

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Prof. Abigail Eiler

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Professor Abigail Eiler is a licensed clinical social worker, certified international mental game coach, and educator with nearly 20 years of experience.

A former nationally ranked water polo player, competing at a high level across the world, Coach Eiler uses her experience and first-hand knowledge in conjunction with research and years of specialized clinical training to provide patient-centered, strengths-based, and culturally-responsive mental health treatment and performance services to athletes.

Currently the Chief Education Officer for Momentum Labs, she is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, as well as the former Chief Diversity Officer, Associate Athletic Director, and Director of Athletic Counseling for Michigan Athletics.

Currently she serves as a mental skills coach in Major League Baseball, provide clinical and high performance services to the Nationally-recognized Michigan Wolverines, as well as to various athletes and coaches across the NFL, NBA, NHL, including Olympians representing multiple countries.

Dr Tess Kilwein

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Dr. Tess Kilwein

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Dr. Tess Kilwein is a Clinical Sport Psychologist and Certified Mental Performance Consultant who works with elite athletes of all ages, identities, and levels of competition, from youth to college to professional sports.

Coach Kilwein operates her own practice – Unapologetic Psychology PLLC – to serve the mental health and performance needs of high-performance individuals, including athletes, performers, and professionals in healthcare and executive leadership across the United States.

Coach Kilwein helps elite athletes, performers, and professionals to navigate a range of concerns, from mental health challenges to performance optimization. In addition to working with high-performance populations, Coach Kilwein is an author, consultant, speaker, and activist on a variety of topics related to mental health and performance.

Before Coach Kilwein focused on private practice, she worked for two years at Vanderbilt Athletics, providing comprehensive sport psychology, mental health, and performance services for student-athletes, teams, and staff.

Dr Amanda Gatherer

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Dr Andrea Wieland, OLY

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Dr. Andrea Wieland is a Sport Psychologist with over three decades of experience in mental high performance.

She was the Director of Sport Performance at the University of Pennsylvania, Director of Wellbeing at Sensei, California and Head of Mental Conditioning at the world-renowned IMG Academy. Andrea has worked with elite athletes, special forces soldiers, NFL players, and business leaders.

A member of the US Olympic Field Hockey Team in 1996, she is a former NCAA Division I Field Hockey coach and member of the Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame (2008).

Laura Cosgrove

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Laura Cosgrove

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Laura Cosgrove is a sport psychologist with over 10-years experience in high performance sport.

From 2015 to 2021 Coach Cosgrove worked for the English Institute of Sport, working with Great Britan’s diving team.

She assisted the divers in the lead up to, and during, major events including the Rio and Tokyo Olympics as well as European and World Championships. Coach Cosgrove also worked with British Diving’s pathway stream, teaching and refining mental skills that helped with their performances at domestic events such as Nationals, but also their benchmark events such as World Juniors.

Through her work with the English Institute of Sport, she also aided diving coaches in their efforts to prepare their athletes to perform at their best, whilst also providing their own strategies, to ensure that their performance of being a coach, was maximised.

Aside from diving, Coach Cosgrove worked with Great Britain’s Paralympic track and road cyclists, ultramarathon runners, volleyball players, tennis players and Australian Rules footballers.

A former representative diver who also represented Australia at the World Masters, Coach Cosgrove currently works with Diving Australia, creating and delivering athlete and coach mental skills for competition performance, and also with the Victorian Institute of Sport, working with Athletics Victoria, to help athletes and coaches prepare for the domestic season and the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Claire Davidson

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Claire Davidson

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Claire Davidson is a performance psychologist who has spent the last decade working with some of the world’s best footballers.

Since 2018 Coach Davidson has worked with the English Football Association in the UK, building programs for the English men’s and women’s teams and working directly with players from underage representative teams all the way through to senior international players.

She has worked with Football League clubs, Plymouth Argyle, MK Dons and Notts County, and Scottish side Aberdeen helping their players from youth prospects through to first-team stars deal with the pressures of playing professional soccer.

Coach Davidson also spent a year working with players at the Nike Academy preparing youth players for the rigors of senior football.

Some of the players that Coach Davidson has worked with across her career have won Champions League finals, played at World Cups and European Championships.

Elite Athletes

Matthew Slater

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Matthew Slater

For 15 years Matthew Slater played for the New England Patriots in the NFL, winning three Super Bowls and appearing at the Pro Bowl 10 times.

A special teamer, playing what is known as the Gunner role, Slater played the second-most games in Patriots history behind only Tom Brady and was Special Teams captain from 2011 to 2024.

Prior to his time in the NFL Slater spent four seasons playing with the UCLA Bruins before being drafted at pick 153 of the 2008 NFL Draft.

Slater has experienced many ups and downs during his career and he shares some tips in his course “Gunning For Success”.

Connor Fields

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Connor Fields

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Connor Fields is a former BMX Racer who represented the United States at three Olympic Games and in 2016 won Gold in Rio, riding with a broken wrist.

Fields won two world cups in 2013 and 2020 as well as two time trial world championships in 2012 and 2013.

During his time in the sport he was twice ranked World Number One. Unfortunately, during the semi finals at the Tokyo games, Connor’s career came to an end when he was involved in a crash that almost claimed his life.

Fields knows better than most the highs and lows that elite level sport can bring, and understands how important the mental side of performance is.

Fields will share with you the mental skills that he learned during his career; from overcoming fear, building confidence and setting goals that powered him to Olympic glory.

Isaiah Wynn

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Isaiah Wynn

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From St. Petersburg Florida, Isaiah Wynn currently plays as an offensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins joining them in 2023 after playing five season with the New England Patriots. A first round pick (23rd overall) in the 2018 NFL Draft, Wynn has a Super Bowl ring, being part of the Patriots squad that won the 2019 Super Bowl.

In his journey from high school player to college star with the Georgia Bulldogs, Wynn has faced a host of ups and downs, and is sharing his story exclusively with Optimize Mind Performance.

Ben Smith

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Ben Smith

Ben Smith, is a professional ice hockey player, who played 7 years in the NHL with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Avalanche, San Jose Sharks and the Chicago Blackhawks, where I won the Stanley Cup in 2013.

After 8 years of professional hockey in North America, Ben has spent the past six seasons playing in Germany for the Adler Mannheim and Red Bull Munich, winning the German Championship at both places.

Before turning pro, he won two NCAA Division I Championships with Boston College in 2008 and 2010, and was named to the team of the tournament both years while also winning the tournament’s Most Outstanding player in 2010.

Ben also play for the US National Team, winning bronze at the 2015 Ice Hockey World Championships.

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