Shayamal Vallabhjee is a Sports Scientist with a double Master’s in Clinical and Industrial & Organisational Psychology.

For over two decades, he has been the on-field performance & mindset coach to the world’s leading athletes, sports teams and CEO’s.

His work in Performance Psychology and Flow States blends evidence based research on human physiology and neuroscience with techniques from behavioural psychology. But the uniqueness in his coaching approach comes from the subtle integration of spirituality and ancestral wisdom, a science he discovered and mastered during his four years of living as a monk at the Hare Krsna Temple in Durban, South Africa. Shayamal has traveled with the South African and Indian Cricket, Davis Cup (Tennis) and Olympic Teams, and on the ATP and WTA Tours for seven years. He has also been a Performance Coach with Kings XI Punjab in the IPL and the famous Kenyan Marathon Team.

Shayamal is currently a course facilitator with the Stanford Business School LEAD Program – The premium leadership training program for CEO’s and executive. He specialises in coaching value based leadership, team dynamics and cohesion and the science of self realisation. Shayamal’s latest publication, Breathe Believe Balance sold more than 25000 copies during the pandemic. He has delivered more than 650 keynote addresses to Fortune 500 and 1000 companies, hosted shows on ESPN, Star Sports, Nat Geo and TED.

When not pushing his clients, Shayamal is an avid ultra-marathoner and mountaineer.