PROFESSOR STEVE PETERS

MBBS | MRCPsych | BA  | PGCE | MEd (medical) | Dip. Sports Med. | Consultant Psychiatrist | Undergraduate Dean Sheffield Medical School.

Professor Steve Peters is a Consultant Psychiatrist working in Elite Sport. His past involvements cover over twenty Olympic, Paralympic and non-Olympic Sports, including Sky ProCycling, British Cycling, Liverpool Football Club, England Football, England Rugby, World Championship Snooker, British Swimming and Great Britain Taekwondo.

His specialist interest is in the working of the human mind and how it can reach optimum performance applied to all walks of life. He is also the author of the best selling personal development book ‘The Chimp Paradox’.

For fun, Steve competes in Track and Field Athletics and has held multiple World Masters Champion Titles and World Records over the 100, 200 and 400 metres.

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Dr Steve Peters is interviewed as part of the University's Carnegie Conversations series and shares some of the science and techniques behind his phenomenal performance success as consultant psychiatrist to the British Cycling Team, Sky ProCycling, Liverpool Football club and other elite sports teams. He shares his experiences of using his mind management programme to help elite athletes and senior business managers alike to conquer their fears and operate with greater control, focus and confidence.