Dave Hadfield

Coaching Categories

  • Specialist Tutors

Areas of Expertise

  • Career planning
  • Creating a Successful Team Environment
  • Goal setting/Time management
  • Mental Skills
  • Mental Toughness
  • Sports Psychology
  • Team Building
  • Values and Standards

Background

  • One of New Zealand’s best known and most experienced sport psychologists and coach educators
  • Masters degree in Psychology, a B.A. in Social Sciences and a Diploma in Sport Management and Coaching
  • An experienced coach, has a Level 3 coaching certificate from both the New Zealand and Australian Cricket Board
  • Lectured in coaching and sport psychology at Massey University for a number of years, during which time he has acted a sport psychologist to a number of teams and consulted with a wide range of athletes from Olympic and Commonwealth Games level to elite youth and club level
  • Coaching consultant for a number of teams and sports and has mentored coaches throughout New Zealand from a number of codes
  • Sport psychologist and coaching consultant to the Wellington Lions and the Hurricanes
  • Owns and runs own company, MindPlus, and now works as a sport psychologist and consultant to athletes, team and businesses
  • Currently working with over 60 elite athletes and coaches as a sport psychologist and coach consultant for the New Zealand Academy of Sport – Central

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