Katie Mobed
Transform high-pressure environments into cultures of excellence with Katie Mobed, Performance Psychologist and Team GB Olympic Specialist. Katie works with executives, athletes, and educators to build psychological safety, resilience, and high-trust teams, drawing on expertise from four Olympic Games and national programmes reaching 250,000 students.
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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For 15 years, Katie has been embedded within Team GB, supporting athletes and coaches across four Olympic Games from London 2012 to Paris 2024. She co-founded The Prime Clinic and is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. Beyond elite sport, she has co-authored two bestselling children's books with Marcus Rashford MBE, created performance psychology content for Headspace, and co-developed a national schools programme that has reached over 250,000 students.
Katie's expertise centres on the neuroscience of performance, resilience, and identity leadership. She helps organisations create high-trust teams that sustain excellence over time. Her work explores how belonging drives motivation, how leaders build credibility through shared purpose, and how psychological safety enables people to challenge constructively and recover from setbacks. Whether coaching a CEO or preparing an Olympian, Katie focuses on the relationship between performance and wellbeing, ensuring success feels meaningful.
Audiences leave Katie's talks with practical mental skills to manage pressure, frameworks for building team trust and psychological safety, and strategies for creating cultures where challenge and support coexist. They gain tools to reframe conflict as opportunity and learn how to define success in ways that sustain both performance and fulfilment.
Katie brings rigorous psychology, real-world credibility from the highest levels of sport, and an approach that prioritises human connection alongside results.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
Katie Mobed explores how leaders can build a strong sense of belonging to inspire loyalty, motivation, and resilience. Drawing on the Identity Leadership Framework and Olympic examples, she examines the four pillars of identity leadership and practical methods to unite diverse groups under a shared purpose. The session highlights storytelling, credibility, and role clarity as tools for leading authentically and fostering high-trust environments.
Katie Mobed examines what differentiates high-performing teams under pressure. Using examples from world-class sport, she explores trust, psychological safety, goal clarity, and effective conflict management. The session equips participants with practical frameworks to strengthen cohesion, manage challenge constructively, and sustain collective performance over time.
Katie Mobed investigates the psychological mechanisms of pressure and equips participants with mental skills to stay composed and focused. She covers confidence, attention management, recovery from mistakes, and coaching others to thrive under scrutiny, combining models such as the Chimp Paradox, Red Brain/Blue Brain, and ACT to develop actionable strategies for high-stakes situations.
Katie Mobed highlights the importance of culture in shaping behaviour and sustaining performance. Drawing on Edgar Schein, Dan Coyle, and Amy Edmondson, she examines the markers of strong cultures, embedding values, and developing trust, resilience, and growth mindsets. Participants engage in exercises to map, assess, and intentionally shape their organisational culture.
Katie Mobed demonstrates how to approach conflict constructively to protect relationships and performance. The session explores why conflict arises, distinguishing healthy from destructive forms, and equips participants with skills for difficult conversations using frameworks including Thomas-Kilmann, Attachment Theory, and Radical Candour.
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