Performance Psychology & Mental Skills Expert; Former Director Of West Point's Center For Enhanced Performance; Sport Psychology Mentor To Two-Time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning; Author Of "The Confident Mind"; Military and Corporate Performance Consultant

New York, NY, USA

Dr Nate Zinsser Biography

Dr. Nathaniel Zinsser, Ph.D., is a performance psychology expert, speaker and author of the book, "The Confident Mind." Dr. Zinsser specializes in the psychology of elite performance, sport psychology for the "white-collar athlete," confidence in the face of setbacks, personal and group values clarification and goal setting, attention control and concentration enhancement, stress and energy management, experiential teambuilding and the embodiment of traditional martial art philosophy in daily life.

Dr. Zinsser has published scholarly research and contributed to both academic and popular literature. His work has appeared in The Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, The Canadian Journal of Psychology and in five editions of the widely used textbook, "Applied Sport Psychology: Personal Growth to Peak Performance." He helped launch Sports Illustrated for Kids by contributing a monthly advice column for five years and received an American Library Association Award for his 1991 children's book, "Dear Dr. Psych: A Kid's Guide to Handling Sports Problems." He has bridged competitive athletic performance and soldier performance through articles in Military Review, Infantry Bugler and Infantry Online. His book, "The Confident Mind," was published in 2022 and has been translated into eight foreign languages, attracting the attention of athletes, doctors and business people around the world.

During the last three decades, Dr. Zinsser has played a leading role in the emergence of performance psychology as a key dimension of overall human performance. He has served on the faculties of William Paterson College in New Jersey, East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia system. From 1992 to 2022, Dr. Zinsser directed the nation's leading mental skills training program at West Point's Center for Enhanced Performance, conducting more than 17,000 individual training sessions and 700 team training sessions. That program has been adopted by the U.S. Army for training new recruits, drill sergeants and tactical units preparing for deployment at posts across the country and overseas. Dr. Zinsser was the sport psychology mentor for two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning of the New York Giants for 11 seasons and mentored members of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers for 12 seasons.

Dr. Zinsser has been a keynote speaker for Staples, UBS, Salomon Smith Barney, Reader's Digest, Amneal Pharma, Royalty Pharma and the Federal Executive Institute. Dr. Zinsser has consulted for the FBI Academy and for multiple U.S. Army programs, including the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, where he mentored four Olympic medalists, U.S. Army Recruiting Command and the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit.

Dr. Zinsser has been invited to present to student and faculty groups at Yale University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Southern Maine, Princeton University, the University of Delaware, Salem State University, Seton Hall University, the University of Texas at El Paso, Pace University, Montclair State University, the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Marist College, Vassar College, Bard College, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the Boston Ballet School.

Dr. Zinsser earned a Ph.D. in education, with a concentration in sport psychology and a minor in research, from the University of Virginia; an M.A. in the psychosocial study of human movement from Teachers College, Columbia University; and a B.A., with an interdisciplinary major in psychology and physical education, from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Dr. Zinsser was a certified consultant of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology from 1995 to 2018 and holds Sandan, a third-degree black belt, in Shotokan Karate of America.

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Dr Nate Zinsser Speaking Topics

  • Living and Working Confidently in an Uncertain World

    A thorough exploration into confidence as a factor in human performance; rationale, functional definition, disputation of common misconceptions, and methods to build, protect, and apply functional confidence in the real world. This presentation's content is derived from 40 years of in depth work with world class athletes, world class surgeons, West Point cadets and Army leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, actors, trial lawyers,musicians, venture capitalists, and financial advisors.

  • Everything You ever Wanted to Know about Stress but weretoo tired and Burned Out to Ask

    Separate the myths and truths regarding stress and energy management. Learn to balance your energy utilization and thrive under pressure.

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How to Train Unshakable Self-Belief with Dr. Nate Zinsser

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