My path into this work started as an athlete. I was the high upside guy, the one coaches expected big things from. And I never delivered. Not because I didn't work hard enough, but because I couldn't manage what was happening between my ears when it mattered most. I had no system for it. Nobody taught me one.
That experience is what sent me to graduate school. I needed to understand why capable people underperform, not in theory, but mechanically. What's actually happening in the brain under pressure, under fatigue, under the weight of real responsibility. I spent years studying it, and then more years applying it in professional baseball with the Colorado Rockies.
What I found — both in research and in thousands of hours working with athletes and professionals — is that the gap between capability and consistent performance almost always comes down to one thing: a lack of system for managing the internal cost of high output. Not motivation. Not talent. Not discipline. System.
That's what I build now. For professionals, leaders, and organizations who are already performing at a high level and want to close the gap between who they are at their best and who shows up in the moments nobody plans for.
CURRENT ROLE
Mental Performance Coordinator, Colorado Rockies
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Educational Psychology · M.S. Sport Psychology
EXPERIENCE
8+ years in professional baseball · Thousands of hours of individual mental performance work
BACKGROUND
Former two-sport collegiate athlete
FOCUS AREAS
Cognitive bandwidth · Signal vs. noise · Identity under pressure · Sustainable high performance
