The High-Performance Brain: Lessons from Neuroscience and Sport
How does the brain shape performance under pressure? Learn transferable lessons from elite sport for any high-stakes environment.
🗓️ 3-Part Live Online Talk Series
14th, 23rd, and 30th October 2025 | 12:00–13:00 (UK Time)
🎟️ Register once for this FREE 3-part series
🎥 All registered attendees will receive access to the full series recordings
This series forms part of ANA’s October spotlight on The Brain Economy. Culminating in the ANA Worldwide Applied Neuroscience Day (WAND) on 30th October. Full programme to follow.
The Brain Economy is a new economic paradigm fuelled by Brain Capital. Proposed by Eyre and colleagues (2021). Brain Capital broadly means prioritising brain health and brain skills as the capital for global human and economic resilience. Join us this October to build your Brain Capital!
ANA is building a transdisciplinary network of stakeholders in The Brain Economy.
Introducing Kimmy Edwards, member of the ANA London Chapter, and Leader of ANA’s Neuroscience in Performance Environments Special Interest Group (SIG). Human Performance Specialist, he brings a decade of expertise in elite sport and high-performance consulting, integrated with neuroscience and psychology as the author and presenter of this Talk Series.
🗣 About The Talk Series
How do athletes perform in the arena, recover when everything falls apart, or make split-second choices that change the outcome of a game? At the heart of every one of these moments is the brain. It sets the stage for performance, shaping focus, resilience, and decision making, while the body carries the performance into the world.
This three-part talk series dives beneath the surface of sport to uncover the neural circuitry of human performance. Each talk blends neuroscience, real world examples, and practical insights to reveal how the brain thrives, and sometimes falters, under pressure. What sport teaches us about attention, resilience, and decision making applies to life beyond the playing field into any demanding context.
🔑 What You’ll Gain
You will gain a richer understanding of how focus, flow, and adaptability are shaped in the brain, along with evidence-based strategies for recovery, resilience, and sustained performance. The series will also provide insight into the split-second decision making that defines success and failure, while offering transferable lessons for leaders, practitioners, and anyone working in high stakes environments.
👥 Who Is This For?
This series is designed for curious minds and professionals who want to understand how the brain shapes performance under pressure. It will appeal to anyone interested in learning lessons from elite sport, whether to inform their own practice, support others in demanding contexts, or simply to deepen their appreciation of how neuroscience attempts to explain focus, resilience, and decision making.
👋 Meet Kimmy Edwards
Kimmy Edwards is a human performance specialist with a decade of experience in elite sport and high-performance consulting.
He holds an MSc in sports coaching and performance, BSc in strength and conditioning, and is currently progressing an MSc in applied neuroscience at King’s College London. He blends science, elite sport and art to help people discover possibilities they had not yet imagined in their world.
Kimmy is curious about how problem-solving unfolds in unexpected places and finds energy in exploring alongside people from diverse backgrounds, discovering how each encounter reframes their understanding of life.
For Kimmy, performance is not solely about exactness and control, but about creativity, adaptability and finding acceptance in the space between order and chaos. He sees playful exploration not as distraction, but as the condition in which learning accelerates, resilience deepens, and new possibilities emerge.
Guided as much by literature, philosophy, psychology and art as by science, he is drawn to the exploratory spirit that allows people and teams to thrive in uncertain environments.
