Dr. Anne Shadle is a performance psychologist with vast experience in working with athletes and corporate leaders. She has served as a performance consultant for Red Bull, the Oklahoma City Thunder, Nike, USA Track and Field, USA Baseball, Moody’s, GE Healthcare, and other multi-million-dollar corporations, advising on performance enhancement strategies and mental health programming.

In her former role as the Director of Mental Performance for the New York Jets, Dr. Shadle was pivotal in enhancing the team’s mental resilience and performance, contributing her expertise and research-based methodology to the draft selection process to ensure the recruitment of psychologically robust athletes. Following the first draft in which she applied her methods to support the Jets in both selection and onboarding, two of the players drafted were named Offensive and Defensive Rookies of the Year.

Prior to her work with the Jets, Dr. Shadle served as Senior Research Performance Psychologist at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, spearheading groundbreaking research into the application of performance psychology across high-stakes military operations, and offering deep insights into the psychological parallels between elite Olympic athletes and special warfare operators.

Dr. Shadle received her doctoral degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Missouri and is a certified mental performance consultant (CMPC) through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. A former elite athlete, Dr. Shadle was a two-time NCAA national champion in the mile and 1500 meters while competing for the University of Nebraska, and went on to run professionally for Reebok, representing the United States at the highest levels of track and field, including the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials.

Dr. Shadle has been a member of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s (USOPC) Sport Psychology Registry and has served as chair of psychological services for USA Track and Field.