Speaking and keynotes

A Talk Your Athletes Can Use the Same Night

Your athletes train their bodies six days a week. Then the season comes down to one tight game, and the difference is what happens between their ears. Bring that training to them. Live, in person, built for your roster.

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Ashleigh Carpentier, MPC
Speaking

Pick the Talk That Fits Your Event

Every talk is built around your audience and your event. Tell Ashleigh what you have in mind and she'll reply within 2 to 3 business days with a few questions and a quote.

School or Club Assembly

A talk for every athlete in your school or club, whatever sport they play. They leave with one reset they can run at their next game.

  • Built around your theme or the point in the season
  • Works for mixed sports and age groups
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Team Talk: Banquets, Camps, Preseason

Thirty to sixty minutes with one team. Real stories from D1 competition and one tool the room can use that night.

  • Shaped to the season you just had, or the one coming
  • Your captains get the cue words to keep using
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Conference or Clinic Keynote

For coaching conferences, sport clinics and association events. Mental skills taught the way coaches teach physical ones, with something to take back to practice on Monday.

  • Fits a keynote slot or a breakout session
  • In person, or virtual if travel does not work
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Coach Education

For a coaching staff. How to teach the reset after a mistake, use cue words at practice and talk to the athlete who just made the error everyone saw.

  • Built around your sport and your staff
  • A one-page coach sheet to keep using
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Parent Night

For the parents of your athletes. What helps on the car ride home, what to save for later and how to back up what the coaches teach.

  • Plain language, no jargon
  • Time for questions from the room
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Want training across a whole season instead of one talk? See the team programs. Not sure where your team loses games? Take the free Team Mental Game Check.

The takeaway

What Athletes Leave With

Not a motivational high that fades by Tuesday. Three things they can run in their next game.

01

A Reset They Can Run Between Plays

Your point guard throws the ball away. Ten seconds later she has to bring it up again with the turnover still in her head. Right now, one mistake becomes three.

Athletes leave with a reset routine they build in the session: a physical release, one breath, one refocus phrase. Short enough to run before the next whistle.

02

A Pre-Game Routine That Holds Up Under Pressure

Warm-ups feel different at districts. The gym is louder, the legs feel heavier, and the routine that worked all season suddenly is not enough.

Each athlete writes a pre-game routine and stress-tests it in the room, so the version they run in March is the version that already survived pressure.

03

A Shared Team Language for Pressure Moments

The ref makes a bad call. Two players start chirping, the bench tightens up, and your timeout becomes damage control instead of strategy.

The team leaves with shared cue words. When your captain says "next play," everyone knows exactly what it means and what to do. Mistakes stop spreading.

Ashleigh Carpentier

Ashleigh Carpentier

MPC, M.S. Sport & Exercise Psychology. Mental Performance Consultant. Founder, Top Tier Performance.

About the speaker

She Has Stood Where Your Athletes Stand

Ashleigh played D1 soccer and wore the captain's armband. She knows what it feels like to step to the line with the season on her shoulders, and what it costs a team when the most talented players cannot get out of their own heads.

She coached high school and college soccer for 13 years and has 11 years of mental performance coaching. Now she trains the mental side full time: science-backed methods, taught in athlete language, built to hold up when the game gets loud.

  • Former D1 soccer player and team captain
  • MPC, M.S. Sport & Exercise Psychology
  • 13 years coaching high school and college soccer
  • 11 years of mental performance coaching
  • Science-backed mental performance methods
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