Perform at your best when it matters most
Alan O’Mara is a Mental Performance Coach who specializes in building more resilient and connected teams.
While elite athletes often receive extensive support for physical, tactical, and technical development, a team’s resilience and connection levels are often left to chance.
The best teams don’t wait until things go wrong to do this important work. They work on their resilience and connection throughout each season so they can perform more consistently and thrive under pressure.
Integrated Mental Performance Coaching
Alan combines his experience as an elite athlete, head coach, and mental performance coach to deliver a structured, season-long program designed for the realities of competition.
By working directly on the field and in the locker room, Alan supports a player-led culture focused on solutions and performance. Instead of working with individuals in the shadows, he delivers through high-impact workshops and training ground support. He works closely with coaches and athletes to enhance how the whole group talks, acts, and reacts when under pressure.
Four Core Mental Performance Pillars
Alan deepens resilience and connection by focusing on:
- Team Resilience: Framing resilience as an active mental skill that can be trained and used to elevate performance.
- Team Connection: Developing a shared team language and actionable triggers to build an identity that holds up under pressure.
- Resetting After Mistakes: Training teams to reset individually and collectively during high-stakes moments.
- Performing Under Pressure: Helping teams build consistency so they execute at their best when it matters most.
Why Alan?
Alan brings a unique perspective to team performance thanks to a decorated career in elite sports:
- Former Elite Athlete: Competed at the highest level in elite Gaelic football, and knows what it is like to compete in front of 60,000 fans.
- Championship-Winning Head Coach: Understands the pressures and nuances of the modern locker room dynamic, having guided teams in the All-Ireland Championship, as well as at the NCAA and high school levels.
- Proven Mental Performance Coach: Supported championship-winning teams across multiple sports in the US and Ireland.
- Best-Selling Author: Penned the acclaimed sports memoir, The Best Is Yet To Come.
- Evidence-Based Practice: Holds an MSc in Sport 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, Manhattanville University Mens Soccer Captain
Skyline Conference Champion and All-Conference First Team
Interested in working together?
Email alan@realtalks.ie to schedule an introductory discovery call.
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