Valentin Performance Consulting
Specializing in the Sport Psychology Concepts that can be the difference in your team
Why Valentin Performance Consulting?
At the elite level, athletic competitions are often decided by inches, single points, or fractions of seconds. In many cases, the physical differences among athletes are
minimal. Often times, it is the psychological differences that decide competition and outcome.
But what are those psychological skills? How can you implement them into your practice? And how can I hold my team accountable to growth in psychological aspects the same way I can in physical?
Valentin Performance Consulting is dedicated to developing training plans in leadership, team building, and mental toughness for you and your team in an engaging and applied fashion!
Valentin Performance Consulting Programming
Leadership
Improve leadership through a 7 module series designed around getting the most out of the people you work with!
Teamwork
Great teams don’t happen by accident. Our 5 module program is designed to bring teams together and give them action steps to stay together!
Mental Toughness
Staying focused in adversity is a skill. Develop those skills daily with our 3 module program.
Long-Term Athlete Development
Bring a middle school program to your organization, ensuring athletes are developing with their long term health and fitness in mind, with speedy boats as an excellent by-product!
Why Mental Skills Training?
83% of businesses say it’s important to develop leaders at all levels. Yet less than 5% of companies have implemented leadership development across all levels.
80% of employers and employees believe that creating a sense of community at work is important.
83% of coaches rate mental toughness as the most important set of psychological characteristics for determining competitive success.
About Emanuel Valentin
Manny Valentin was named Skidmore College head men's and women's crew coach in May, 2021. Valentin was previously the Saratoga Rowing Association (SRA) head varsity boys coach and the Advanced Rowing Initiative of the Northeast (ARION) men's coach.
Valentin has been with the SRA at various levels since 2017. Prior to that, he was a head coach and program director for the Sagamore Rowing Association in Oyster Bay, N.Y. A standout collegiate rower at Ithaca College, Valentin was co-valuable oarsmen for the 2006-2007. He stayed at Ithaca as a graduate assistant and then assistant coach, while pursuing an advanced degree in sports psychology.
Valentin's athletes have had success on the national and international levels, with a men's lightweight quad winning the 2018 USRowing trials and then competing in the 2018 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Following his second season at the helm of the Skidmore College rowing program, Valentin was named the Regional Coach of the Year by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA). Valentin was one of 13 coaches across all three divisions, including just one of just four coaches in Division III, to be recognized with the award. He represented the New York region under the Division III.
What others have to say...
“Manny’s communication skills and ability to direct a conversation to enable his athletes to discover ciritcal truths about themselves and their role as teammates has been invaluable for our junior program at Saratoga Rowing as well as the U23 and high performance teams of ARION.”
Eric Catalano, ARION Head Coach
“Manny’s workshops are a great blent of research, information, and real-life application. Any team looking to improve the mental side of their sport would benefit.”
Chris Chase, UAlbany Head Coach and Former Director of Juniors Rowing at USRowing
Whether it's been juniors, national team, U23s, or the senior team, the greatest teams and athletes dedicate time to mental skills training. This program makes it easy to integrate this training into your already establish programming!
Eric Gehrke, U19 National Team Coach
Get in touch!
Find out how our program
can help you and your team!.
Contact us
Phone
(518) 490-9715
coach.eavalentin@gmail.com