About us

“If you want to change your life, it starts with changing your mind.”

- Michael Gervais, PhD

Who We Are

Finding Mastery is a high performance psychology consulting agency. Our primary focus is working with leaders, teams, and organizations so they can thrive at the intersection of high performance and wellbeing.

After spending decades working with the world’s best in high-pressure environments—from Fortune 10 CEOs to Olympians and Paralympians to world record holders—Finding Mastery helps innovative companies solve the most dynamic and complex human performance challenges.

This is not your Suit-And-Briefcase Consulting Firm

Every person in our company has lived in the amphitheater of high performance and high stress. That’s our DNA. We work on projects that keep us up at night — with companies who are shaping the future of our world.

From that place, Finding Mastery helps design strategies and solutions for leadership, teams, and organizational culture to help people perform at their best while feeling their best. We don’t just advise and consult, we work at the frontier of human experience and bring back real-world, best practices to unlock human potential.

Clients we’ve worked with include:

Our Founder

Finding Mastery was founded by Dr. Michael Gervais, one of the world’s top high performance psychologists and leading experts on the relationship between the mind and human performance.

Dr. Gervais has spent his career being called on by the best of the best across the worlds of business, sport, the arts, and science when they need to achieve the extraordinary.

Dr. Gervais is also the founder and host of the Finding Mastery Podcast, the co-creator of the Performance Science Institute at USC, and his work has been featured by NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, ESPN, NFL Network, Red Bull TV, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Outside Magazine, WIRED, ESPN Magazine and more. He is also the author of The First Rule of Mastery, a USA Today Bestseller.

Highlights from Dr. Gervais

Worked with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and his leadership team to develop psychological principles and practices for high-performing teams and cultures.
Subsequently trained 50,000+ Microsoft employees through the Finding Mastery high performance course, workshops, and trainings. 
For Red Bull Stratos, helped Felix Baumgartner manage his mind and body under pressure for his record-setting skydive from 128,000 feet.

As a sport psychology consultant, he was a member of the Seattle Seahawks team for 9 seasons, including two back-to-back Super Bowl appearances (winning in 2014). His primary objective was to assist Head Coach, Pete Carroll, to build a mindset-based culture.
Worked across three summer Olympic Games (Tokyo, Rio, London) and two winter Olympics as a high performance psychologist supporting Team USA, helping athletes win 30+ medals.

Meet Our Coaches

Learn from our global leaders in mindset training.