Consultancy Programme
Mental Skills.
Built Into How
You Train.
HeadCoach's 8-week Competition Readiness Programme embeds structured psychological skill training inside your team's weekly environment — led by your coaches, anchored by our methodology, delivered without ongoing consultant dependency.
The Approach
Three Phases.
One Permanent System.
Phase 1
Organisational
Consultation
Before any programme begins, Joe Davis leads a structured consultation to understand how your organisation currently operates. This is not a generic intake session — it is a diagnostic process that shapes how the programme is configured for your environment, your athletes, and your competitive calendar.
Phase 2
Train
the Coach
Your coaches are trained to facilitate psychological skill development within their teams. Two focused workshops (live or virtual) give coaches everything they need to run the programme independently — without requiring any background in sport psychology.
Phase 3
8-Week Competition
Readiness Block
Teams systematically train one psychological skill per week — through daily individual app audio sessions and one coach-facilitated 45-minute team session. Athletes enter competition calm under pressure, confident in preparation, and clear on what they can control.
The Programme
Eight Weeks.
Eight Skills.
Each week targets one psychological performance skill — trained individually through the app and reinforced collectively through coach-led team sessions. Skills build on each other across the eight weeks, creating cumulative mental preparation for competition.
The sequence is designed to move athletes from self-understanding through competitive application — arriving at the most critical team-performance skills in the final weeks, when competitive readiness is at its peak.
Weekly Model — Every Week
Week 1
Confidence
Building self-belief that holds under competitive pressure
Week 2
Focus
Concentration strategies for high-stakes environments
Week 3
Self-Awareness
Recognising the emotional patterns that affect performance
Week 4
Self-Control
Managing emotional responses in critical game moments
Week 5
Optimism
Sustaining productive orientation through adversity
Week 6
Resilience
Recovering from setbacks — in the same game, not the next one
Week 7
Competitive Drive
Sustaining intensity and motivation through a demanding season
Week 8
Teamwork
Cohesion, trust, and collective performance under pressure
Why This Model
Why Train-the-Trainer
Outperforms Direct Delivery
Scalable Without Dependency
HeadCoach is not required to facilitate every session. Once your coaches are trained, they run the programme. The framework remains in your organisation permanently — usable for every competitive season without ongoing consultant hours.
Embedded, Not Bolted On
Psychological skills become part of the team's weekly training rhythm — not an external service that athletes mentally separate from their competitive preparation. Culture shifts when coaches lead the conversation.
Higher Athlete Engagement
Athletes engage more deeply when their own coach facilitates the discussion. The coach brings context, credibility, and continuity that an external consultant cannot. Athletes connect the mental skills to their specific competitive environment.
Compounding Return on Investment
The programme is delivered once. The coach retains the playbook, the framework, and the facilitation skills. Every subsequent season, the programme can be re-run at no additional delivery cost. The initial investment compounds across multiple seasons.
Programme Director
Joe Davis
Co-Founder & Chief Psychology Officer, HeadCoach
Joe brings a background spanning sport and clinical psychology, with specialist expertise in Emotional Intelligence and performance under pressure. As co-founder of HeadCoach and a chartered sport psychologist, he has been central to developing the science and methodology that underpins both the app and the consultancy programme.
The Competition Readiness Programme is designed by Joe to transfer his methodology directly to your coaching staff — so the psychological framework becomes theirs to deliver, not his to rent out.
Joe Davis
Co-Founder & Chief Psychology Officer
Programme Packages
Choose your Level
Foundation
$4,500+
One-time programme investment
Advanced
$8,000+
One-time programme investment
Embedded
$20,000+
One-time programme investment
All prices are indicative. Final pricing is confirmed following the initial consultation. Contact us to discuss which package fits your programme and budget.
Ready to Make Mental Skills
Part of How You Train?
Book a consultation with Joe Davis to discuss your programme, your competitive calendar, and which package fits your organisation.