Dr. Oliver ‘Ben’ Conmy began his professional journey living and working on the PGA Tour. After nearly two decades traveling the globe accompanying clients in competition, he has focused on his true passion working with younger athletes beginning their journeys in elite sport.

Originally from England, Ben’s early life with a professional footballer father set him on the path of a multi-sport athlete and cemented his lifelong passion for all things sport and competition. As an elite youth footballer (Manchester United Football Club Aged 11 years old), Ben made the decision to pursue academics at 16 years old rather than move away from home to live at a soccer academy full-time.

Ben graduated with a Bachelor of Science Business Degree from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), after which he was recruited to a fast-track management program at UNILEVER PLC in London. Two years into that experience he knew he wanted to get back to his true passion and lifelong DNA: sports.

In 2000, Ben researched his dream career and relatively unknown subject - Sport Psychology. After extensive research, Ben found his major professor, Dr. Gershon Tenenbaum, one the leading Sport Psychology academics in the world, and joined the doctoral program in Applied Sport Psychology at Florida State University under Dr. Tenenbaum’s mentorship. Florida State subsequently recruited Dr. Robert Eklund, another powerhouse professor in the field and excellent academic mind. Dr. Eklund joined Dr. Tenebaum on the committee overseeing Ben’s dissertation, Trash Talk in a Competitive Setting: Impact on Self-Efficacy, Affect, And Performance, the first study of its kind in the sport psychology literature. Building on the data and findings from his dissertation research, Ben collaborated with Dr. Ekland and Dr. Tenenbaum to co-author the first peer-reviewed article on trash talk, titled Trash Talk in a Competitive Setting: Impact on Self-Efficacy and Affect, published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

While pursuing his Ph.D. in the early 2000s, Ben started working one-on-one with FSU athletes across several sports, including the legendary football program, coached at the time by the one and only Bobby Bowden. A passion project whilst at FSU was working with women’s soccer head coach Mark Krikorian, whose aim was to take the Lady ‘Noles to the elite level of the sport. Florida State won their first national championship in women’s soccer in 2014. They have since won 3 more national titles.

Ben has accumulated over 20 years of applied, real world experience across professional, collegiate, top-tier high school athletics, and high-end business and performance domains.

Whilst working with Horizon Performance, Ben worked closely with elite military servicemembers. He considers that experience pivotal in his career, as it led him to reverse engineer his process from what worked with professionals in a multitude of leagues and sports to what is effective at the beginning of those journeys with elite high school prospects. His journey has taken him across the globe working with athletes from nearly every sport and genre conceivable in the performance arena. He has lived in London, Austin, San Diego, Las Vegas, Seattle, Kentucky and Florida.

Ben holds both his Masters & Ph.D. in Sport/Performance Psychology.

With a baby boy having just arrived in late 2024, Ben is now keen to reduce the travel, so has established his practice in Austin. He is working primarily with local up-and-coming youth athletes.