Michael Caulfield

One of the UK’s leading Sport Psychologists

 

Exclusive insights from the world's elite coaches and sporting champions to reinforce your company's core performance messages and create a learning impact that your delegates will never forget.

 

Michael is best known as the Sports Psychologist for Brentford FC who have received amazing reviews for the culture and environment that they have built in taking what is essentially a small family club into the Premier League - to not just surviving but thriving in this elite sporting environment.

 

Working with players and staff from countries all over the world Michael has the incredible skill to cut straight through all of the noise and address the most important things that really matter, the people, how they feel, the importance of listening, talking and appreciating each other and recognising that everyone in the organisation is important to the team performance.

 

He also works with the Ireland cricket team, The Northern Ireland International football team and Northants Rugby.  Previously he was the former CEO of the Professional  Jockey Association where he formed a close working relationship with Sir A P McCoy. After fifteen years as Chief Executive of the Professional Jockeys Association (PJA), he retrained as a Sports Psychologist as having worked with that extraordinary group of sportsmen and women, it was clear to him that so many athletes, managers, coaches, executives and just about any profession you care to think of, require support to help them perform and cope with the many challenges we all face in life.

 

Michael has worked with some remarkable people and teams throughout  his career including former England National Team Manager Gareth Southgate and Gold medalist Olympian Mo Farah.

 

Michael's main focus is working with people, teams, organisations  to help them to fulfil their potential in their chosen field. That may be at the highest possible level imaginable on the global stage, through to people who just want to enjoy what they do, at whatever level appeals to them.  Michael shares his insights and bringing psychology to life, with his unique sense of timing and humour.

 

He has travelled extensively working in many sporting disciplines and competitions, speaking at conferences, studying areas of human performance that have led him to where he is today.  

 

It is also not a trail of spectacular  success, far from it.  There have been some wonderful triumphs  from Lord's to Wembley, via Bangalore and Brisbane, but also some major disappointments and losses which are hard to shake off, but vital for learning.

 

Michael has also been instrumental behind the - Brentford benches -  with the club about to place a number of benches around the borough. The benches will be available for anyone to use and they will have the plaque saying ‘Talking is the Best Tactic’ [the slogan for the Premier League’s campaign]. They will be for people to just go and sit down and talk, and it could be someone they know well or someone they don’t know so well.”