Host Warren Wandling takes you behind the scenes to get to know a variety of leaders and the keys to their success. Discover strategies, tips and resources from leaders and entrepreneurs who have overcome obstacles to build resilience and achieve success. In this episode, Warren introduces you to Dr. Amber Selking.
Episode 88 – Discover How to Win the Mental Game.
Dr. Amber Selking is a mental performance consultant and founder of the Selking Performance Group. She works to emphasize the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive lasting change in businesses, on athletic teams, and in individual lives. Amber’s dynamic and individualized approach to enhancing performance helps clarify vision, create championship team cultures, and achieve sustainable results. Amber received her PhD in applied sport psychology, with an emphasis in positive psychology and the effect of brain functioning on performance. Her research and applied work revolve around human performance including leadership, mindset development, transitions, masculinity, and mental toughness.
As a former corporate human resources professional and Division I college soccer player at the University of Notre Dame where she graduated magna cum laude, Dr. Selking understands the mental toughness it takes to be successful in work, in sport, and in life. With an expertise in human performance and sport psychology, Amber leverages her former corporate business and athletic experiences to challenge others’ current ways of thinking and unlock their personal potential for achievement. She currently serves as the Mental Performance Coach and Consultant to Head Coach Brian Kelly and the Notre Dame Football team, and an adjunct professor in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
Amber completed her PhD at the University of Missouri in Applied Sport Psychology, where she also received a graduate certificate in Positive Psychology. Her dissertation, entitled, “When the Lights Go Out, How Do They Turn Back On?: A Grounded Theory on the Transition Out of the National Football League,” integrated former players’ transition experiences into a 3-model theory that can be used as an educational/training framework or a crisis intervention model. She also holds a master’s degree in Sport & Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, where her thesis assessed the correlation between mental toughness and leadership behaviors of Division I college football players. She worked on the world-class Mental Conditioning team at IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL, where youth to professional-level athletes, coaches, parents, military, and business people are trained in the high performance mindset.
Amber coaches teams and individuals to optimal performance in both business and sport, and believes in a strengths-based approach to optimizing human potential amid challenging environments. Combined, her expertise is in optimizing human performance by training others’ in how their brain works and how to use it to position them to be successful, and helping leaders build systems that are most conducive to high performance. From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, Dr. Selking provides keynote speaking, group training, and consulting. Working with the Selking Performance Group is all about “Building Championship Mindsets” in order to synergize people, purpose, and systems to drive performance excellence.
In this episode with Dr. Amber Selking you will:
- Discover what inspired her to write the book Winning The Mental Game.
- Find out why it’s important that you know the four domains.
- Learn about Brain Science 101
- Uncover the keys to maximize the benefits of a productive mindset
- Understand the science of awareness
- Learn what’s the value of mental rehearsal
To connect with Amber Selking:
- Selking Performance Group
- amber@selkingperformance.com
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