Rooted in his lifetime love of sports and years of education, research, and teaching, Dr. Michael Sullivan, President of AHEAD Performance Consulting, LLC, is dedicated to helping all athletes and coaches achieve their goals. Dr. Sullivan helps clients seamlessly integrate their mental and physical performance, giving them a winning edge.

Dr. Sullivan received a PhD from the University of Notre Dame in Social Psychology and has spent 12 years as an award-winning university instructor while conducting research examining psychological factors integral to athletes' performances. He is a member of the most prominent professional organizations in the field: the Association for Applied Sports Psychology (AASP) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS).

In addition, Dr. Sullivan’s personal experiences have provided him with a wealth of in-depth knowledge about the athlete's' mind. As a student at Wabash College he competed in Track and Field (NCAA-Div.III) and has studied a number of martial arts culminating in a promotion to 2nd degree Black-belt in Cooper-ryu Vee Jitsu (a martial arts style combining Japanese Ju-Jitsu-te and Korean Chung-do-Kwan). His sport experiences also include certification as a personal fitness trainer and a youth coach.

At AHEAD Performance Consulting, Dr. Sullivan combines these areas of knowledge and experience to benefit individual athletes, coaches, and teams looking to succeed.

Contact AHEAD Performance to see how you can raise your performance to the next level.

"Working with Dr. Sullivan truly helped me developed myself as a coach. His attentiveness to the specific needs of my team helped to transform the season and has provided our program a basis to continue improving."

“Thank you so much for working with the girls as they prepared for their Regional and National competitions….We are thankful for your work, advice, and training, it helped the girls discover the secret to their best performance.”