Dr. Saul Miller

Dr. Saul L. Miller is a performance specialist who has consulted at the highest levels of business, sport, healthcare and the arts for the last twenty-five years.

One of the world's leading performance psychologists, Dr. Miller works in the areas of productivity enhancement and team building, teaching his clients to excel while dealing effectively with pressure, stress and change. All of Dr. Miller's programs are individually tailored to the specific needs and interests of his clients, and each one is guaranteed to inform, inspire and entertain.
  
In sport, Dr. Miller has worked with teams in Major League Baseball (MLB); the National Football League (NFL); the National Basketball Association (NBA); and the National Hockey League (NHL), as well as PGA Tour golfers, Swiss and German professional teams, and Olympians from USA, Canada and Europe in over a dozen different sports. 

In business, Dr. Miller's clients span management, manufacturing, sales and service. He has consulted in a variety of industries, including financial services, technology, insurance, construction, automotive, and health care. For six years, Dr. Miller was president of a successful interdisciplinary health facility, assisting the chronically injured return to living healthy, productive lives. 

There is no one in North America with more hands on experience facilitating success and well-being. USA Today wrote, "Dr. Saul Miller is a mental repair man." His clients have increased sales volumes 100%, improved management effectiveness, set records, won championships and gold medals, and improved their health and well-being. 

Dr. Miller is the author of eight books including: Performing Under Pressure: Gaining the Mental Edge in Business and Sport and Why Teams Win: 9 Keys to Success in Business Sport and Beyond.

A graduate of McGill University and the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London (Ph.D. Clinical Psychology), Dr. Miller's work reflects his study of Eastern disciplines, Western psychological thinking and over 25 years of front line experience consulting with the world's top performers.

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Saul Miller's Blog Entries -
Performing Under Pressure at the Winter Games

Winning Teams Have Effective Core Leadership

• 4. Selling Tough

  Selling Tough is an empowered, mentally tough approach to sales. In this program, Dr. Miller coaches you and your sales team on developing a selling psyche that will enhance effectiveness. The Selling Tough program explores 10 success factors including: a winning sales focus, personal power and emotional control (less anxiety, less over-selling), confidence, all-star sales identity, and the ultimate power...love.
  
  

• 2. Why Teams Win: Building Organizational Success

  In his work with hundreds of teams all over the world, Dr. Miller has identified nine keys to organizational and team success. His "Why Teams Win" program explores these keys and facilitates participants in embracing a motivating vision and team identity, strengthening commitment, improving communication and ultimately building success throughout their organization. An excellent program for management.

• 3. Leadership: Mentoring a Winning Culture

  The foundation of creative, succesful leadership is having and communicating a vision, an achievement expectation, and a means whereby to deliver. Leadership is also about selecting and developing talent, and understanding differences in personality style and corporate roles. There are different strokes for different folks. Coaching extroverts is different from coaching introverts; coaching sales is different from managing operations.

  This program explores the elements of vision organization and communication, as well as personality and roles differences and shows participants how to inspire other to create a winning culture.

• 1. Excelling Under Pressure

  Success in business, sport, and life is a function of how we manage our minds." This program explores the thinking and attitudes that generate personal and profession excellence. Dr. Miller reviews five keys he uses to facilitate success with the world's top performers. These keys are particularly relevant and useful in pressure situations and challenging times.
  
  Success relates to emotional mastery. In customer service and sales it's the ability to transform a customer/client's "dis-ease" into ease, to transform their uncertainty into confidence. This informative, entertaining program describes ways to manage thinking and feeling to perform at one's best.

• Saul is a great coach. Using his performance enhancement program our sales were up over 100%.

  Canada Life

• You were the best speaker we have had in years!

  Munich ReInsurance

• Your comments on the psychology of "winning" were the wave of "the future."

  NBA Coaches Association

• I thought it was great!... He is by far the best presenter... Thanks!

  James Hoggan & Associates Inc.

• We have had many seminars over the years and I am pleased to confirm that yours was the best seminar yet. The firm found your seminar well-prepared, practical, and entertaining.

  Owen-Bird Law Firm

• Saul Miller's presentation was absolutely first class! He was an excellent choice. The feedback from the attendees was fantastic.

  Imperial Parking

• You were named as favourite speaker on multiple evaluations.

  Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of Oregon

• Your presentation was excellent! Practicing the techniques you presented there has been a noticeable improvement in atmosphere and performance around the department.

  Stanley Pharmaceuticals

• Great presentation. Many staff members said that this was the best workshop they had ever been to.

  Secondary School Teachers Seminar - Vancouver

• Excellent, practical advice on leadership, team-building, and winning.

  AQP Group of Companies

• Dr. Miller describes what it takes to win in sport, business, and life. He is a very knowledgeable, experienced, and entertaining speaker.

  ACE (ACI Customer Exchange)

• Dr. Saul Miller is an extremely effective speaker on issues of health and performance.

  Columbia Health Care

• Thank you for your fine presentation. Each man present benefited from your expertise.

  New York Mets

• What was really impressive was the practical nature of your presentation and the entertaining way it was presented.

  Canadian Ski Association

• All of us found your presentations innovative, motivating, and entertaining and have gone a long way to helping us create a "winning team.

  BC Gas

• great motivation, truly outstanding...your ability to connect with the group was extraordinary given the limited time you had with us. My dealers and my staff bring up points from your presentation almost daily.

  Honda Canada

• Mental Coach Curbs Slumps 'Dr. Saul Miller is a mental repairman.'

  USA Today

• Dr. Saul Miller a performance psychologist who has worked with teams in the NBA, NFL, CFL, Major League Baseball and 16 national teams in Canada and the U.S. knows about losing. "It is painful for people with high expectations and pride. If it happens once in a while, fine. But if losing becomes habitual people develop some behaviors to protect themselves." People on chronically unsuccessful teams adjust. They lower their expectations. It doesn't hurt as much if you don't aspire to it. And people start saying, "Well, I'm doing my job" - the implication being perhaps someone else isn't.

  Financial Post

• "Miller is a Master of Mind Games"

  
  The New York Mets nicknamed him Dr. Bombay, as in the wizard who restored special powers in the TV series Bewitched. The NFL Rams dubbed him Yoda, the all-knowing master of Starwars fame. But Miller insists his work is not a matter of magic. It's a matter of technology and it's state of the art.

  The Vancouver Sun

• "He Teaches You To Win"

  
  Everyone's a performer whether actor, salesman, housewife or athlete. Dr. Miller's techniques make for a more calm, balanced, charged up, focused person who converts a problem into an opportunity.

  The Sault Star (Sault Ste. Marie, ON)

• Sport psychologist Saul Miller has the same advice for the Toronto Blue Jays as he continually tells the New York Mets: Take a deep breath and for heaven's sake, don't think too much." Miller was in Toronto yesterday four a speaking engagement. In an interview beforehand he outlined his four pronged philosophy-balance mental alertness with calm, focus on the matter at hand, concentrate on breathing deeply, and keep a positive confident attitude.

  The Globe and Mail

• "Positive Thoughts As Fuel For Business" 

  
  Motivational guru Dr. Saul Miller urges Royal Roads audience to focus on thoughts of success. "It's up to us to create the kind of reality we want in our lives, whether we are playing sports, trying to make a sale, or running a human resource department," say the performance psychologist.

  Times Colonist, (Victoria, BC)

• "Miller Teaching Hockey Players The Mental Mechanics of Success"

  
  The renowned sport psychologist has picked up many a nickname in his 25 year career – Yoda, the Wizard of Ease, and Dr. Bombay. (after the occult Mr. Fixit on Bewitched) among them – for his almost mystic ability to help players reach their peak performance. Miller not only helps athletes to find their optimal performance zone. He helps them to stay there and regulate their performances. "The mind leads and the body follows. If you train the body without training the mind, you don't have the whole picture.

  The Daily Courier, (Vancouver)

• What Miller has done is breakdown what it takes to win and then train individuals how to develop a winning attitude... What he was able to do for us was focus us into a team. We were focused on winning. We didn't think about losing. We were totally committed to that goal." Captain, Canadian Olympic Team

  Montreal Gazette

• Miller has helped this team to the degree of tuning them for losers into winners. That's the hard thing for me. If the team was already a winner he would help it some, but the degree of help wouldn't be outstanding." MSU Golf Coach

  The Clarion Ledger, (Jackson, MS)

• 'Dr. Saul Miller Inspires Local Champions' Article
  A lot of interesting characters have spoken at the Dinner of Champions over the last five years but none have been as inspiring as Dr. Saul Miller.

  Alaska Highway News

• "Constructive Criticism Lays foundation for Team Success"

  
  Two things that accompany playoff pressure are greater consequence and greater emotion. Some people react to the increased pressure by getting anxious, emotional and upset. They don't channel emotion in a POSITIVE constructive way. When something isn't right they become critical of themselves or their teammates. The most effective way to move things forward is...

  Hockey Now (Western Canada)

• "Mets Mastermind: Psychologist Dr. Saul Miller Was the Coach Inside the Heads of the 1986 New York Mets, a Team Which Staged the greatest comeback in World Series History."

  
  "If you knew how effective psychologist Dr. Saul Miller is teaching receptive minds about relaxing in tight situations, focusing on the task at hand and believing in yourself you'd know that his work during the 1986 and 1986 seasons paid off in hugh dividends for manager Davey Johnson's Mets.

  The Outlook (Vancouver)

• "The Wizard of Ease Expels the Demons of Doubt"

  
  Miller has the uncanny knack of being associated with winners... For more than a decade Miller has specialized in getting inside athletes' minds and erasing fears that limit their performance.

  The Georgia Straight (Vancouver)

• Call Dr. Saul Miller in Vancouver for sage advice.

  Calgary Herald

• "Dr. Saul Miller on Winning The Mental Game"

  
  Success in the game of life is about a lot of things from goal-setting and attitude, to managing focus and emotions...Mastery of the necessary skills requires training and practice.

  The Verdict (Trial Lawyers Association Magazine)

• "Performing Under Pressure"

  
  Dr. Saul Miller says in order to perform better, a person has to learn how to focus and block out negative thoughts.

  Calgary Sun

• Saul Miller a sport psychologist says: "The more we put positive thoughts in our minds, the better we shall perform. Athletes are using this technique to become champions, and we can all use it to become champions in our own lives."

  Reader's Digest

• Dr. Miller the psychologist from Los Angeles joined the Mets in San Francisco as part of his continuing assignment to help certain players improve their motivation."

  New York Times

• "Rams Performance Consultant Helps Project Winning Image"

  
  Winning is the name of the game and winners can be trained," says Saul Miller, a performance psychologist hired by (dare I mention it in the den of the Bears) the Los Angeles Rams. Miller focuses on the mental side of the game-positive-mindedness, imagery, relaxation, and emotional control.

  Wednesday Journal (Chicago)

• "When Loses Got Honeycutt Down He Called Up Psychologist"

  
  How frustrated and depressed was Rick Honeycutt during his 11 game losing streak with the Dodgers? Enough to begin visiting Saul Miller, local sport psychologist.

  Los Angeles Times

• Dr. Miller Psyches Up Rams With 'Positive Imagery'.

  Los Angeles Herald

• Following a remarkable performance MSU baseball player Bruce Castoria said, "The road trip was almost like a dream. It was phenomenal. I didn't expect this much success out of it. I always knew I was capable, but I didn't expect this much. I still can't fathom it. This is how I always thought I could play." It just took someone like Miller to put him in the right frame of mind.

  The Clarion Ledger (Jackson, MS)

• 'Winning Channel' Article
  Dr. Saul Miller, a psychologist who has spent years working with professional athletes has a formula for success. He believes the same techniques can be used in the business world and in our personal lives.

  Auburn Journal (Auburn, CA)

• "Think Positive"

  
  The mind is like a television set that is always on. Too often it's broadcasting anxiety and failure. The good news is that you have the channel changer.

  Entreprenurial Woman

• "Peak Performance"

  
  Dr. Saul Miller is a psychological pacemaker.

  Men's Fitness

• "Managing Stress"

  
  Thinking you have to stay pumped to excel is nonsense. Over the long term whether you are an athlete of a corporate executive you will do far better after you've gotten a handle on stress.

  US Air Magazine

• "Canadians Have An Attitude Coach"

  
  "I work with athletes to help them extend themselves to the limits., whatever they may be," said Miller. "When athletes begin to believe they can do well, they can be awesome.

  The Daily Journal (Caracas, Venezuela)

• "Prendre Un Etre Normal, En Faire Un Surhomme"

  
  Le Dr Saul Miller, Psychologue Du Sport, Garantit Le Success De Son Intervention (Take a Normal Being, and Make a Superman Dr. Saul Miller, Sport Psychologist, Guarantees Success With His Intervention)

  La Presse (Montreal)

• "Exercising The Mind"

  You don't have to be an Olympic athlete To benefit from Dr. Saul Miller's positive approach to achieving your personal best.

  East West Journal

• "This Miller's Tale is Very Positive"

  
  Miller is a sport psychologist with a faculty for getting through to performance-oriented problems.

  The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger Star (Virginia Beach)

• Saul is a wonderful speaker. He is pleasant, charming and supports his points with stories and examples that everyone can relate to. His techniques for maximizing performance are very practical and relevant.

  Murray Auto Group

• Your comments on the psychology of "winning" were not only dynamic and to the point, but were in the judgement of the group, the wave of the future.

  NBA Coaches Association

• Thank you for an outstanding presentation at the coaches' seminar. What was especially impressive was the practical nature of your program and the entertaining way it was presented.

  Canadian Ski Association

• Dr. Miller's program was excellent. It was relevant, well-researched, and delivered with energy and humour. Many felt it was one of the best talks on teamwork and performance they had heard.

  Bruce Power

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  January 2010

  Performing Under Pressure: Gaining the Mental Edge in Business and Sport

  What the Man Who Teaches the World's Top Athletes Can Teach You About Overcoming Stress and Winning in Business and in Life.

  Pressure. It keeps us focused, drivers athletes to Olympic greatness, businesspeople to produce record value in their companies and artists to the stellar heights of their craft. but too much pressure is unhealthy and counterproductive. It leads to sleeplessness, heart attacks and many other negative side effects. It can also make us seize up and lose our ease when we need it the most.  World-renowned sports psychologist Saul Miller, who teaches elite athletes and top sports teams how to be successful, shares a wealth of practical tools and exercises that allow anyone, in any situation, to manage the pressure they feel, and to channel it into peak performance. 

  
  
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  April 2009

  Why Teams Win

  Today there is a greater than ever need for people to work together effectively in teams. Dr. Saul Miller’s, Why Teams Win, identifies the 9 key characteristics of successful teams - describes how to improve personal, organizational and team performance in each of these 9 areas. The book features advice, quotes, and interviews from high-profile athletes and coaches, as well as from business leaders - includes self-evaluation and team-building exercises. Why Teams Win offers anyone wanting to improve their personal and team performance a proven and accessible formula for success.

  
  
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  July 2003

  Hockey Tough: A Winning Mental Game

  Hockey Tough provides players and coaches proven methods for mastering the mental side of the game. Author Saul Miller shares the psychological training and emotional management techniques he has successfully taught individual hockey players and teams for over 20 years. Throughout the book, NHL stars such as Mark Messier, Pavel Bure, Chris Pronger, and Markus Naslund offer insights and tips on a variety of topics related to achieving a winning mind-set for the sport. These players explain how to focus and score, how to deal with personality conflicts on and off the ice, and how to bounce back with confidence after a subpar performance.

  
  
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  January 2001

  The Complete Player: The Psychology of Winning Hockey

  
  
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  September 1999

  Sport Psychology for Cyclists

  In eight chapters representing a cycling team's eight sessions with a sports psychologist, this book teaches athletes how to cultivate the thoughts, feelings, and insights necessary for optimal cycling performance. It includes breathing techniques for power and emotional control, tips for handling pressure, and four types of imagery.

  
  
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