ICPE Consulting
West Virginia University’s International Center for Performance Excellence (ICPE) has recently enhanced its commitment to promoting performance excellence through consultations and presentations suited to benefit businesses, teams, coaches, executives, and academic institutions. The ICPE’s Consultation and Presentation Division is led by Dan Leidl and Joe Frontiera, and targets both businesses and teams for the delivery of performance enhancement services. In the past, an athlete could win based on superior athletic ability and a business could win based on its superior product. However, the gap between competing athletes, teams and businesses continues to narrow. Because of this, teams and businesses are seeking out any advantage that will distinguish them from the competition, and the development of performance enhancement psychology skills is one way to create this advantage.

ICPE Consulting Leaders
Joe Frontiera, MS
Joe Frontiera is currently a doctoral student in Sport & Exercise Psychology at West Virginia University. Joe has a Masters in Sport & Exercise Psychology, and current areas of interest include leadership, confidence, team climate, and performance enhancement. Before graduate school, Joe was a top sales executive in the Silicon Valley for five years at two technology firms. Joe has survived cancer, three years of Division 1 Crew, and the WorldCom scandal, and is utilizing those experiences, as well as his education, to assist both athletic and corporate teams reach their potential.

Dan Leidl, MA
Dan Leidl is currently a doctoral student in Sport and Exercise Psychology at West Virginia University, and has an MA in Child Development from Tufts University. Dan has coached lacrosse at the collegiate and high school levels for men and women, and has played at a variety of levels, including professionally in the National Lacrosse League and internationally as a member of the Irish National Team. Dan’s research interests include motivation, achievement through sport, and leadership, and he is working to share his coaching, playing and academic experiences with executives, coaches, players, and students who are seeking performance improvement.

Performance Consulting Services
The ICPE believe in a top-down approach to organizational enhancement, recognizing that change starts with the leadership. Working directly with executives, coaches, and organizational heads, the ICPE assist institutional leaders to further develop strengths, deepen awareness of organizational make-up and culture, and improve motivational and confidence development strategies. Through individual consultations, team presentations, and tailored interventions, the ICPE partners with nonprofit, corporate and athletic entities to improve performance, productivity, and unity.

In addition to one on one consulting, the ICPE also offers tailored presentations on the following general topics:

Team Building:
•These workshops will assist business and athletic teams to overcome dysfunction, helping individual members to work together as a cohesive unit in pursuit of achieving larger goals. Team building will consist of identifying group goals, exposing issues that may act as barriers to reaching those goals, and developing strategies for overcoming those issues.

Leadership Development:
•Assist organizational leaders in the nonprofit, corporate, and athletic sectors to become better motivators by focusing on the improvement of motivational climate, managing conflict resolution, improving communication, and enhancing the standards for staff/player performance.

Motivation:
•Assist organizational leaders in developing strategies to enhance the motivational climate of their organization so as to maximize productivity, loyalty, and overall effort.

•Assist athletes and employees in better understanding motivation as a concept, how it can be regulated, and how to maximize motivation for themselves and their team.

Confidence:
•Assist organizational leaders in developing strategies to improve individual and team confidence in an effort to better achieve performance potential.

•Assist athletes in enhancing confidence in themselves and those around them by exploring where confidence comes from and how it can be supported.

General Performance Enhancement Strategies:
•Goal setting, relaxation training, time management, concentration, focus and self talk are all mental skills that can be improved with practice. Each can have a dramatic impact on overall performance, and each can be learned and perfected with systematic approaches.