ABOUT US
Optimize Mind Performance has assembled the world’s leading minds in the mental performance space to assist athletes in achieving peak performance.
Coach
Dr. Ross Flowers is a counseling psychologist and 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, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Rams, and the United States Olympic Team. He has helped some of the world’s best athletes achieve their goals on and off the field, and can help you to unlock your full potential.
Coach
Geoff Miller is a highly regarded expert in baseball psychology. He has spent the past 17 years working in the MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, and Philadelphia Phillies. Coach Miller holds a Masters Degree in Sports Psychology, currently provides mental skills coaching to professional and amateur athletes, corporate coaching to executives and business teams, and coaching for retiring athletes transitioning into new post-playing careers.
Coach
Dr. Andrea Wieland is a Sport Psychologist with over three decades of experience in elite mental performance, having held roles as the Director of sport performance at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Head of Mental Conditioning at the world-renowned IMG Academy. She has worked with elite athletes, special forces soldiers, NFL players, and leaders of the business world. A member of the US Olympic Field Hockey Team in 1996, Coach Wieland is a former NCAA Division I Field Hockey coach and a member of the Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame (2008).
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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.
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Dr. Michael Lloyd is a sport psychologist with over 20 years of experience in high performance sport. He has worked with athletes from a wide range of sports during his time at the Australian Institute of Sport and the Queensland Academy of Sport before moving to Cricket Australia where he has spent the past 16 years working with Australia’s best cricketers. He is the current Sports Psychologist for the Queensland Cricket team.
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Dr Amanda Gatherer is a Clinical Psychologist with over thirty years’ experience including two decades working with athletes in high performance sport.
Coach Gatherer has spent 11 years assisting athletes with their mental health through the English Institute of Sport, working with high school athletes all the way through to Olympians.
Currently, Dr Gatherer helps cricketers at English Cricket and Paralympians reach their potential.
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Dr Meg Popovic is a Mental Skills Coach who has helped thousands of athletes reach their peak as athletes and as people.
Coach Popovic spent four years working with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL as Director of Athlete Wellbeing & Performance. Popovic has helped to develop leaders, working with Brescia University in Ontario while also working with athletes at the International Olympic Academy and the NBA’s Global Academy.
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Laura Cosgrove is a performance psychologist with over ten years’ experience working with athletes of varying levels and sports.
Coach Cosgrove spent two successful Olympic cycles with Team Great Britain, working with British Divers and British Cyclist.
After six years in the UK, Coach Cosgrove returned to Melbourne, Australia where she now works with athletes at the Victorian Institute of Sport.
Coach
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.
Coach
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.
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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.
Optimize Mind Performance users will gain exclusive insights from some of the world’s leading athletes.
NFL Player
Over the past 15 years Matthew Slater has 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 has been Special Teams captain since 2011.
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’ll share some tips in his course “Gunning For Success”.
NFL Player
From Tampa Florida, Isaiah Wynn has played as an offensive tackle for the New England Patriots since being selected with the 23rd overall pick in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
In his journey from high school, to college star with the Georgia Bulldogs, to being a NFL first round pick, Wynn has faced many ups and downs and is sharing his story exclusively with Optimize Mind Performance.
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Ben Smith has spent 14 years as a professional ice hockey player, including stints at the Toronto Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks, Colorado Avalanche and Chicago Blackhawks where he was part of the 2013 Stanley Cup winning team.
Part of the United States’ team that won bronze at the 2015 Ice Hockey World Championships, Ben was drafted out of Boston College where he played in three NCAA Championship finals winning two and being named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player in 2010.
Currently, Ben plays for Red Bull Munich in the German Ice Hockey League where he has won two championships.
LISTEN
As in life, setbacks are common in sports.
Learn how to regain your motivation after a loss, mistake, or bump in the road.
Build the feeling of security in your own abilities,
qualities and practices with Coach Flowers by identifying who you are as an athlete.
Learn about resilience and how to use it to be
mentally tough in the moment and gritty for the long haul.
Being injured brings with it a range of emotions.
Use the simple R.E.C.O.V.E.R principle to guide you through your injury layoff.
Join Isaiah Wynn as he tells you how he grew in confidence
from high school hopeful to NFL starter.
For Athletes
A modern and on-demand approach to mental skills training that actively engages today’s athlete.
Content created by the leading minds in mental performance who have worked throughout the MLB, NFL, NBA, and more.
Content that covers all the key foundations of sport psychology as well as sport specific mental skills that will enhance performance.
An easy, digital solution that requires no training.
Streamlined platform for sending in-house content directly to athletes.
Monitor individual, group, team, and organizational engagement with OMP data & analytics.
Unlock the bandwidth of your team and continue building a holistic approach to mental skills training throughout your organization.
Scale your mental skills training program throughout your organization by reaching your athletes digitally at anytime and anywhere.
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