We are excited to announce Dr. Mark Guadagnoli to be a key-note speaker at our Dallas, TX event. Topics will include but not limited to “a golfers mind” and “Good, better, how?”
Dr. Guadagnoli has worked with multiple athletes on the psychology of sport, including PGA Tour Player Ryan Moore.
Examples of Dr. Guadagnoli’s professional and collegiate golfers include:
- PGA, LPGA, and Nationwide tour players
- Several men and women collegiate All-Americans
- US Amateur Champion
- Western Amateur Champion
- US Amateur Publinks Champion
- Masters Qualifier
- US Open participants
- International JGA Tournament of Champions winner
- Palmer Cup selection
- Canadian National Team members
- Atlantic International Junior Championship winner
- North Texas PGA Championship winner
- Junior World Champion winner
BIO: Mark Guadagnoli_Academic
Dr. Mark Guadagnoli has been a college Professor for over two decades and has taught and lectured at several universities including Arizona State University, Harvard University, UCLA, UNLV, and USC. He received his undergraduate and M.S. (Kinesiology: Psychology) degrees at Texas A&M University, and Ph.D. at Auburn University (Human Performance: Cognitive Psychology). He specializes in human performance and learning and has received numerous awards for this work (multiple time Student of the Year, Teacher of the Year, and Researcher of the Year). Dr. Guadagnoli has published more than 100 articles and abstracts and is the author of two books (Human Learning; Biology, Brain, and Neuroscience, and Practice to Learn, Play to Win). Dr. Guadagnoli’s primary line of research is related to the Challenge Point Framework (Guadagnoli & Lee, 2004). This is a model of learning which suggests that appropriate short term challenges result in efficient learning. This framework has been applied to practice manipulations including feedback structure, contextual interference, and variability of practice. Dr. Guadagnoli has also applied this research to his work with PGA, LPGA, and Nationwide tour winners, collegiate All-Americans, a US Amateur Publinks Champion, Masters and US Open participants, Palmer Cup member, Canadian National Team members, many NCAA All-Americans, a Junior World Champion winner, World Amateur winner, and USA Olympic Elite Track and Field athletes. Dr. Guadagnoli has been invited to present this work around the world including such countries as Canada, China, France, Germany, and Scotland and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Golf Magazine, GolfDigest, ESPN Radio, and on CBS Sports. He has been featured in the New York Times, Golf Magazine, GolfDigest, ESPN Radio, and CBS Sports. He is currently a faculty member at UNLV and Senior Scientist at Triad Consulting, Inc. (http://triadconsultinginc.com/)
