Connected Performance

What’s in it for you?

Success at the highest level - whether in sport, the arts, surgery or any other high-performance field - isn’t just about skill. It’s about mental sharpness, resilience, and maintaining peak performance.

But no one excels alone. Strong relationships - mentors, teammates, allies, and support networks - sharpen your edge, refine your thinking, and build resilience. The right connections push you further and sustain you under pressure.

Connection Is Your Competitive Advantage

Connected Performance™ gives you the psychological edge to go from good to exceptional. By training your mind and strengthening key relationships, you don’t just perform - you sustain excellence. At the elite level, talent isn’t enough - connection is your competitive advantage.

The Life Connected™ Framework in Performance

Traditional training builds skill and endurance, but true excellence comes from connection. 

The Life Connected™ framework strengthens the human edge that sets elite performers apart:

  • Connect with Yourself – Develop self-awareness, sharpen focus, and build resilience under pressure.

  • Connect with Others – Foster trust, communication, and high-performance relationships through for example mentoring, allyship, and role-modelling.

  • Connect with the World – Adapt to high-stakes environments, make smarter decisions, and align with long-term goals.

As an elite performer you need to train smarter, not just harder, learning from role models and leveraging support - from teammates and mentors to family and friends. Your relationships determine how well you recover, push limits, and maintain peak performance.

How We Can Work Together

Great performance isn’t just about what you do alone, it’s about how well you connect. Mastering the mental, emotional, and relational aspects of high performance is the key to sustaining success and performing at your best when it matters most.

Coaching

For athletes, performers, surgeons, and high-stakes professionals who want to go deeper. Tailored one-on-one or team coaching helps you:

  • Strengthen mental resilience

  • Enhance focus and decision-making under pressure

  • Build high-performance relationships that drive long-term success

Workshops & Programs

Engaging, high-impact sessions designed to embed Connected Performance™ into daily practice, equipping individuals and teams to:

  • Build deep self-awareness for sustained, high-level performance

  • Strengthen communication, trust, and collaboration to create a high-performance culture

  • Harness mentoring, allyship, and role modeling to fast-track growth

For keynotes delivered by Fiona please see ‘Leadership’ section.

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Testimonials

Chairman of a Global Organisation

“Fiona exudes energy, but with a sense of calm and measured thought. She is cool under fire, and can restore order and harmony to any situation, whilst delivering the hard messages as necessary. It seems to me that this is because she is not only professionally trained, but also because, as a person her “integrity” comes shining through.”

High Ranking Military Officer

“Fiona is an extremely insightful person, with a great manner and personable disposition. She is highly creative, thoughtful and a thought provoking person - who brings a great blend of confidence and self-deprecation to the situations where I have sought her guidance. From my perspective - Fiona is very highly recommended in her specialisms and more broadly as psychologist, observer, orienteer and coach. Top grade.” 

Industry Leading Creative

“Ever since I’ve known Fiona she’s been a guiding light. And I don’t say that lightly. I wish that everyone had a Fiona in their lives because it does make the journey a lot easier.”

CEO of Global Organization

“If you want to get an honest insight into how the human mind works, and specifically how YOUR mind works then I recommend Fiona.”

Partnership

Sports performance for young people

Over the last 8 years, The Mintridge Foundation has impacted 88,100 young people by encouraging them to engage in sport.

The Mintridge Foundation is a UK-wide registered charity (with Patrons, Clare Balding CBE & Alice Arnold) that wants every young person to have a positive relationship with sport by harnessing the unique platform of sporting role models far beyond their medals. They believe that through sport, young people can connect, excel, and thrive. In sport, there are great expectations around role models, and we see this as an incredible opportunity to make positive outcomes. Olympians, Paralympians, and other sports stars (Mintridge Ambassadors) deliver holistic sports provision in schools, clubs, and colleges across the UK for young people from all walks of life, of all abilities and physical capabilities.

Mintridge has partnered with Fiona sharing insights from Mirror Thinking to help leverage the science behind optimising opportunities for role-modeling, mentoring and leadership for young people.