Adam Wright, Ph.D.

Performance consulting · Psychotherapy · Executive coaching

Adam Wright, Ph.D., performance consultant and executive coach

I work with people whose performance carries consequence.

Former Director of Mental Performance, Washington Nationals.

Elite athletes · Founders & senior leaders · Artists & performers · Tactical and other high-responsibility professionals

About Adam
The pursuit of excellence is not in question. How you pursue it matters. So does who you become in the process.
Adam Wright reviewing notes at a work table

When people reach out

Many of the people I work with are accustomed to being the ones others rely on.

They have learned to carry difficult things privately and to believe they should handle them alone. That approach can work for a long time. Then performance changes, a role becomes harder to carry, or a relationship, transition, or recurring pattern begins to interfere.

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How to work with Adam

We start by understanding what is happening. Then we decide whether performance consulting, executive coaching, or psychotherapy is the right fit.

Executive coaching

For founders and senior leaders managing authority, conflict, visibility, and decisions that carry real consequences.

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Psychotherapy

For symptoms, relationship concerns, identity, and recurring patterns that call for psychotherapy in New York or New Jersey.

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The Wright Model

Direct enough for what is happening now. Deep enough for what keeps returning.

The work may begin with a performance problem, a consequential decision, a symptom, or a relationship. It looks beneath the immediate concern without losing sight of what must change now.

Grounded in science.Shaped in classrooms and clinics.Tested in elite sport.

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The Wright Model
What gives directionPurpose, meaning & values
Person and environment
Cognition
Action & skill
Emotion, identity & pattern
Physiology & regulation
Adaptivecapacity
FoundationBody & biology

Everything interacts.

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The first step is a brief conversation about what you need and whether the work is a fit.

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