Cally Beaton

Mental and physical health are both essential elements to high performance, but organizations and our vocabulary around mental health is far less evolved than it is for physical health. Teams need Alexi’s innovative concepts around vulnerability and courage to learn how to harness the unrivaled power of teamwork. Pappas offers a practical guide in how to do this after learning the hard way through suffering personal grief and post-Olympic depression after competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics. She wanted to keep chasing the next goal, but her mind — just like her body — needed to recover. Everything turned around when she learned she needed think about anxiety and depression like a “scratch on the brain.” It was an injury. From that moment on, Alexi began approaching mental healing with just as much dedication, time, and energy she approached Olympic training and massive success and personal growth followed. She motivates and inspires organizations to recognize that the mental health of any individual is central to performance. Organizations who consciously choose to embrace this perspective shift will see game-changing results in the performance of their teams.