Performance Psychology Support

• Nov 2017 - Present

Owner

• Apr 2012 - Present

Professional Brain Wrangler and co-owner of Braveheart Coaching, an endurance sport coaching business that I run with my wife, Lesley Paterson, an Ironman champion and 5-time World Champion in off-road triathlon. I specialize in mental skills training for endurance athletes and their support teams to improve resilience, confidence, and decision making under pressure. Learn more at: www.braveheartcoach.com; http://www.lesleypaterson.com/ Professional Brain Wrangler and co-owner of Braveheart Coaching, an endurance sport coaching business that I run with my wife, Lesley Paterson, an Ironman champion and 5-time World Champion in off-road triathlon. I specialize in mental skills training for endurance athletes and their support teams to improve resilience, confidence, and decision making under pressure. Learn more at: www.braveheartcoach.com; http://www.lesleypaterson.com/

Principal

• Jan 2014 - Present

Provide consulting services to fitness tech industry looking to change employee and customer behavior. Specifically:• Implementing evidence-based behavioral science to increase consumer adoption and 'stickiness' of wireless fitness technology• Applying behavioral economics to increase behavior change among individuals, teams, and organizations. Provide consulting services to fitness tech industry looking to change employee and customer behavior. Specifically:• Implementing evidence-based behavioral science to increase consumer adoption and 'stickiness' of wireless fitness technology• Applying behavioral economics to increase behavior change among individuals, teams, and organizations.

Performance Psychology Support

• Mar 2016 - Mar 2017

Associate Professor

• Jan 2012 - Dec 2014

Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, specializing in health behavior change and physical activity & public health. Serve as principal investigator and co-investigator on numerous NIH-funded grants examining technology-mediated behavior change in exercise and physical activity contexts. http://cwphs.ucsd.eduAssociate Director, EPARC laboratory. Lead a state-of-the-science exercise physiology laboratory capable of performing detailed assessments of cardiovascular and respiratory function, body composition (DXA), bone health, resting metabolism, balance capability and function. http://www.ucsdeparc.org

Associate Professor

• Aug 2002 - Dec 2011

Academic faculty in sport and exercise psychology. Taught research methods, applied sports psychology and exercise psychology to graduate students in Kinesiology and Exercise Physiology. Director of the Sports Psychology Graduate Internship Program. Academic faculty in sport and exercise psychology. Taught research methods, applied sports psychology and exercise psychology to graduate students in Kinesiology and Exercise Physiology. Director of the Sports Psychology Graduate Internship Program.