What Got You To The Top Won’t Keep You There
High performers need a performance playbook upgrade to reach their next level
Dr. Kim Hollingdale helps high-performing leaders and teams recognize when the strategies that made them successful are starting to work against them - and adapt how they perform so they can keep on climbing.
Drawing on more than 15 years in performance psychology and elite sport, she brings lessons from some of the world's most competitive environments into the workplace - where, just like in sport, achieving success is one challenge. Adapting to what success changes so you can keep winning, is another.
Her perspective is also personal.
In her first career as a corporate marketer, Kim was operating at a high level, but in a way that wasn't sustainable. The harder things became, the harder she worked. Eventually, she watched her performance begin to deteriorate and found that the strategies she had always relied on weren't helping anymore.
That experience led her to study performance more deeply, retrain in psychology and ultimately spend the next chapter of her career working in elite sport — an unusually good place to understand what works and what doesn't because performance is visible, measured and constantly tested.
“I’ve lived the high-performer to burnout pipeline and spent more than a decade decoding the performance myths that are stifling long-term success.”
Kim’s work focuses on what happens once you’re successful. The strategies that helped you get there may still be working, but success changes the demands. Working harder can become harder to sustain. High standards can start getting in the way. And the more you know what works, the harder it can be to risk doing something differently.
Kim helps people recognize when this is happening and work out what still serves them, what needs to change, and how to keep performing without simply adding more effort.
In her speaking and consulting, Kim explores the largely overlooked challenge of what happens after success: why winning can change the way we think and perform, and why staying successful can require something different from becoming successful in the first place.
Drawing on psychology, research and her years in elite sport, she gives audiences a practical way to think about their own performance and what they may need to do differently for what comes next.
“I’ve created and tested performance strategy in one of the most competitive environments on earth - elite sport - where pressure is relentless, results are visible, and ineffective ways of working get exposed fast.”
Education & Professional Credentials
Doctorate (Psy.D.) in Clinical & Sport Psychology
2 x Master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology and Psychological Science & Research
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), California
Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC), Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP)
United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee Mental Performance Registry
Dr. Kim Hollingdale is a licensed psychotherapist, Certified Mental Performance Consultant and speaker who has spent more than 15 years helping athletes, leaders and other high performers understand what allows them to perform at their best - and keep doing it.
“The hardest thing to let go of is what’s still sort of working.
But if you wait ‘til it breaks, you’ve already lost.”
- Dr. Kim
