Perform at your best when it matters most!
As a Team Performance Consultant, Alan O’Mara helps athletes and coaches to perform more consistently and thrive under pressure.
While elite athletes often receive extensive support for physical, tactical, and technical development, team resilience and connection are often left to chance.
The best teams don’t wait until things go wrong to build resilience, confidence and connection. They train them daily and turn team performance systems into a distinct competitive advantage.
The Solution: Integrated Team Performance Consulting
Alan delivers a structured, season-long program built for the realities of elite competition.
This isn’t about once-off classroom sessions or apps. By working together on the pitch and in the locker room, we build a player-led, action-oriented culture. Through proactive skill development and strategic, real-time interventions, your squad develops the practical tools to handle pressure, communicate effectively, and execute the game plan when it matters most.
While individual mental performance has its place and plays a vital role in elite sports, true competitive advantage doesn’t happen in isolation. Elite sports teams already have so many pieces of the high-performance puzzle in place. I help coaches and athletes piece it all together. I don’t just coach individual mindsets; I focus on how the whole group talks, trusts, and reacts together under pressure.
The Program Focuses on Three Core Pillars:
- Build Resilience: Developing a shared team language and actionable performance triggers to help anchor the group and reset instantly during high-pressure moments.
- Enhance Confidence: Streamlining roles and expectations so players excel at what they are brilliant at, while consistently executing exactly what the head coach needs them to do.
- Improve Connection: Deepening trust one conversation at a time, uniting players and staff behind a clear team identity and shared purpose.
The Outcomes
- The Athlete: Gains the role clarity and confidence to excel in their job and reset instantly after errors.
- The Team: Develops a unified identity and collective coping mechanisms that hold steady under extreme pressure.
- The Culture: Shifts from blame to ownership and responsibility.
- The Performance: Becomes consistent, allowing the squad to play at their absolute ceiling more often.
Why Alan?
Alan brings a unique perspective to mental performance thanks to a decorated career in elite sports:
- Former Elite Athlete in Ireland’s national football league.
- Championship-Winning Head Coach who understands the locker room dynamic.
- Mental Performance Coach with championship winning teams in the US and Ireland
- Author of the best-selling memoir ‘The Best is Yet To Come’.
- MSc in Sports and Exercise Psychology.
Testimonials
“Alan helped us achieve our goals as a team and created real conversations about our team vision. He gave us words and cues to help in high-performance situations. He made us a better team and better individuals.” Michael Mezzina, Captain, Skyline All-Conference First Team
Interested in working together?
Email alan@realtalks.ie to schedule an introductory discovery call.
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