Brent Walker is a performance psychologist and mental skills coach with nearly three decades of experience supporting elite athletes, coaches, and executives in high-performance environments. Since 2021, he has served as the Major League Mental Skills Coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers, where he has been part of two World Series Championship teams (2024, 2025). In this role, Brent delivers individual and group mental performance support to players, coaches, and staff across the regular season and postseason.

Prior to joining the Dodgers, Brent served as Associate Athletic Director for Championship Performance and Co-Director of Success Through Well-Being at Columbia University. Success Through Well-Being is a comprehensive initiative designed to support student-athletes through academic tutoring, career development, mental training, leadership development, mental health services, sports nutrition, and analytics. In this role, Brent led all mental preparation efforts and oversaw leadership development, mental health, sports nutrition, and analytics within the athletic department.

Brent is a Past President and Fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to sport and performance psychology, representing more than 2,300 members across 57 countries. He has also served as the organization’s strategic liaison to the National Basketball Retired Players Association, connecting former professional athletes with qualified performance psychology professionals.

Brent holds a doctorate in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Sport Psychology from the University of Illinois. He earned a master’s degree in Sport Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a second master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Columbia University. He is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant® through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and is licensed as a Mental Health Counselor in the state of New York.