About us
“If you want to change your life, it starts with changing your mind.”
- Michael Gervais, PhD
Who We Are
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:
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.
Caroline BurCkle, MS
Mindset Coach & Olympian
Sarat Chandran, MS
Mindset Coach & Performance Strategist
Alisha Childress
Mindset Coach & Olympian
Nicole Davis, PSYD
Mindset Coach & Olympian
Natasha Hastings, EDS
Mindset Coach & Olympian
Brent Hogarth, PHD
Mindset Coach & Performance Strategist
Carli Lloyd
Mindset Coach & Olympian
Jannell MacCaulay, PHD
Mindset Coach
Sarah Straton, MSc
Mindset Coach & Olympian
Courtney Thompson
Mindset Coach & Olympian
Kaya Turski
Mindset Coach & Olympian
Karin Wood
Performance Strategist
Piers Kowalski, MA, CMPC
Mindset Coach & Performance Strategist
For Organizations
We work with leaders and teams to apply the psychology of high performance and wellbeing across their organizations. We’ve gone to the edge of the human frontier to bring the most advanced psychological learnings into the context of your business.
For Individuals
Our online course gives you a complete high performance mindset training you can use to consistently perform to the edge of your capabilities and be your best in any situation.