Jan 23, 2023
This week I’m delighted to speak to Lindsey Hamilton. Lindsey is
Head of Mental Conditioning at IMG Academy where she leads,
develops, and facilitates a team of 12 mental conditioning coaches
that oversees the mental skills development of over 1,100
student-athletes across eight sports. She also leads the IMG
Institute through developing and delivering high performance
mindset training to executive level business professionals and
corporate teams interested in optimising leadership and enhancing
organisational excellence.
Along with a number of other authors, Lindsey presented a panel at
the Association for Applied Psychology (AASP) annual conference in
October 2022 discussing “The Failures That Guided Us: Sharing
Vulnerabilities in Ascending to the Elite Level”. The panellists
demonstrated vulnerability by sharing some of the failures they
experienced as they worked their way to and within the elite level.
Lindsey and I discuss how athletes and coaches can navigate and
accept failure as a part of the sporting experience.