What is a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE)? And what does it look like across the worlds of sport, business, the military, education, the performing arts and many other performance fields? With 18 years working in marketing strategy for blue chip companies and 11 years training towards Sports and Performance Psychology chartership ( CPsychol - achieved in Jan 2024), I am seeking to find what each domain can learn from the other. To do so, I'm speaking to high performance experts,…
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Who is going to let us under the bonnet of the Formula One world? We are very fortunate to get the 'inside track' via Dr Robbie Anderson , Head of Performance Psychology at Hintsa F1 programs as well as Founder and Director of his own company Performing Minds . Reading out the rest of Robbie’s achievements and experiences could be podcast episode in itself – some of his notable previous positions…
The first episode of 2026 is a compelling sneak peak behind the curtain of elite European professional football, with the fantastic Dr Peter Schneider. Peter is a mental performance coach with a PhD in Sport Psychology and dual master’s degrees in Sport & Exercise Psychology and Diagnostics & Intervention, trained at the University of Leipzig and the University of Jyväskylä. Across 4 seasons…
This week’s episode is an AASP Special. Dr. Mustafa Sarkar is Associate Professor of Sport and Performance Psychology at Nottingham Trent University as well as a consultant specialising in individual, team, and organisational resilience across many high performance domains. The Association for Applied Sport Psychology (or AASP)’s annual conference is coming up this week from the 15th – 18th…
In this second episode of 2025 we have the pleasure of getting to speak to Dr. Martin Turner again - exploring different nuances and themes within REBT, and its growing applicability to systemic and environment challenges. On the applied side Martin has worked across football, cricket, rugby, cycling, archery, shooting, and equestrian. He also provides performance psychology to business…
Welcome to Slice of PIE episode 32. Stuart Holliday (CPsychol) is a Sport Psychologist for GB Olympic Swimming, and runs his own practice Focused Mind Coaching with clients in sport, music, and business. He has worked in elite sport environments for over 10 years at Olympic, Paralympic, Commonwealth, and Premiership experience for Archery, Swimming, England Netball, and Liverpool Football Club.…
In the fourth Slice of PIE of 2024, we get the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Will McConn Palfreyman, Head of Psychology at Scottish Golf , and lecturer in Sport Psychology at the University of Sterling. A chartered sport & exercise psychologist through the British Psychological Society – Will has worked with a number of sporting organisations including sportscotland Institute of Sport, Scottish…
In the third Slice of PIE of 2024, we get the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Duncan Simpson. Duncan joined IMG from Barry University in Miami in 2017 - providing mental conditioning services for tennis, golf, and soccer. Originally from England, he received his Ph.D in Sport Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He’s a Certified Consultant with the Association of Applied Sport…
In the second Slice of PIE of 2024, we get the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Martin Turner. Martin is a very experienced academic, researcher and practitioner – with specific interests in challenge and threat states in athletes, and the use of REBT with athletes. On the applied side Martin has worked across football, cricket, rugby, cycling, archery, shooting, and equestrian. He also provides…
Another year, and another Slice of PIE first. We get to speak to Niels Feddersen, Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Science - and we get to speak to him at two points in time ! First in 2020, during his move from Denmark to Norway, and then again in 2023 - where we have a conversation and reflection on the first conversation ! I can't take credit, it was Niels' idea... We talk…
Slice of PIE is back with some exciting personal and professional news. We also get to speak to Dr. Jamie Barker, former chair of the British Psychological Society's (BPS) Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology (DSEP) and 'Pracademic' with over 20 years of experience. In this episode we dig into his experience working with the British Paralympics team in Rio, and from working in sport to…