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" ...in my opinion, what makes a champion, and I mean a champion in the broadest sense, is a champion mindset.

A champion mindset! The world is viewed in its totality through this mindset.

And, if you have done something great in one field, you are far more able to do it in another. Your champion mindset is the transferable commodity and not the skill itself."

   
 

- The inaugural Edwin Flack Lecture, Australian Olympic Committee, Sydney, 26 June 1998
- Olympic Review June 1999 - the official publication of the Olympic Movement
- Their Winning Ways, The Australian, 8-9 April 2000
- 'What Makes a Champion?' Penguin book

   
 

With these words, Professor Allan Snyder coined a new phrase - he introduced a powerful new concept to the world!

Today Champion Mindset programs proliferate worldwide.

   
 

Professor Allan Snyder instils your Champion Mindset!

   
 

Inspiring, motivating, and informative coaching on the ‘champion mindset’ can be learned from the person who coined the term, and whose life and pioneering research embodies the concept of the champion mindset.

Allan Snyder:

  • One of Bulletin/Newsweek's 10 Most Creative Minds

  • Oliver Sacks describes him as "agile, playful, audacious, inventive..."

  • Known worldwide for his pioneering discoveries on creativity and championship

  • Won the world's foremost prize for communication and information technology,
    the Marconi Prize in New York 2001. He also won the Clifford Patterson Prize for the Royal Society, the only Australian ever to have acheived either honour

  • A mentor and creativity coach to CEOs, he commands a powerful network that has attracted Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama and Sir Richard Branson to his Centre for the Mind

  • Conceived the Sydney 2000 Nelson Mandela-led 'What Makes a Champion?' event

  • Directs the high-profile Centre for the Mind. He holds the prestigious 150th Chair of Science and the Mind at the University of Sydney.


Read more about Professor Snyder

Contact the Centre for the Mind info@centreforthemind.com

   
 
Allan at the lectern

Professor Allan Snyder is a compelling orator who receives standing ovations from the great hall of Parliament House to corporate boardrooms. He also appears on radio and television and writes for the popular press.

   
 
Allan Snyder with Richard Branson
Professor Snyder presented Sir Richard Branson with the Centre for the Mind's Distinguished Fellow Medal 2003
 

Allan speaks passionately on the universals of great success as derived from his scientific research on the role played by the unconscious and emotions in decision making, from his interviews with the worlds greats and through his unique Olympic initiative - "What Makes a Champion?"- a gathering of celebrity champions from across the globe lead by Nelson Mandela.

   
 

Recent Appearances

   
 

TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: "Brain, Mind, Reality" - address
3-7 May 2011, Stockholm, Sweden

WHAT MAKES A YOUNG CHAMPION: Opening and closing address
7-8 August 2010, Singapore

NATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE: "What Makes a Champion!" - keynote address
31 May 2010 Singapore

INDONESIA INTERNATIONAL EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CONFERENCE: "Mysteries of the Mind" - keynote address
19-20 November 2009, Indonesia

SINGAPORE NATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE: "Mysteries of the Mind" - keynote address
21 May 2009, Singapore

CHAMPION MINDSET PROGRAM: "Creativity and Championship in Schools" - address to Hong Kong School Principals
13 November 2008, Hong Kong

ROYAL SOCIETY TALENT AND AUTISM MEETING: "Inducing Savant Skills: Privileged Access to Lower Level, Less Processed Information" - keynote address
29 September 2008, London

SINGAPORE EARLY EDUCATION REVOLUTION CONFERENCE: "Laying the Foundation for the Champion Mindset" - keynote address
10 July 2008, Singapore

WHAT MAKES A CHAMPION: Keynote address, Peking University
9 April 2008, Beijing

GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE: "Personalised Games" - address
20 February 2008, San Francisco

CHAMPION MINDSET PROGRAM: "What Makes Extraordinary Success" - address to Hong Kong School Principals
24 January 2008, Hong Kong

CHAMPION MINDSET PROGRAM: "Inculcating the Champion Mindset" - keynote address to Singaporean educators
13 July 2007, Singapore

FEAST (Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation): "Are animals autistic? Creativity, Mindsets and Autism" - Keynote address
6 May 2007, Bowral NSW

ART OF THE ANIMAL: "Creativity, Mindsets and Autism" - Keynote address
27-28 November 2006, Seaworld Nara Resort, Gold Coast Australia

WORLD MYSTERY FORUM: "Turning on the Mind's Hidden Skills" - Keynote address
9-13 November 2006, Interlaken Switzerland

BEIJING FORUM 2006: "What Makes a Champion is a Champion Mindset" - Keynote address
27-29 October 2006, Beijing China

COMMITTEE FOR MELBOURNE: "Creativity and Championship" - Guest speaker
14 March 2006

NANCY LURIE MARKS FAMILY FOUNDATION'S 'BOSTON CLUB': "Boosting Concept Formation as a Possible Therapy for Autism" - Keynote address
8 December 2005, Boston USA

CANBERRA GRAMMAR SCHOOL: "What Makes Extraordinary Success" - Graduation Address
6 December 2005, Canberra ACT

MIND STATES CONFERENCE: "Turning on Hidden Skills by Turning Off Part of the Brain With Magnetic Pulses" - Opening address
16 September 2004, Oaxaca Mexico

2004 NSW TELEHEALTH SYMPOSIUM: Creativity: An Act of Rebellion - Keynote address
19 August 2004, Novotel Hotel, Brighton Beach Sydney

SONY LEARNING WORKSHOP: "Learning and Creativity Accelerated by Suppressing or Circumventing Certain Brain Regions" - Keynote address
27-30 April 2004, Bologna Italy

DISTINGUISHED FELLOW MEDAL - Address to Sir Richard Branson
10 December 2003, Great Hall, The University of Sydney

PFIZER NEUROSCIENCE AWARDS: "A Challenge to Neuropharmacology: enhanced creativity" - Dinner address
20 June 2003, Hall of Fame, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING: "Genius and Madness" - Dinner Address
18 November 2002, NSW Parliament House, Sydney

NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: "Genes, Neurons & Mental Illness", Enhanced Performance by Shutting Down Part of the Brain.
21 June 2002, Sydney

DALAI LAMA SCIENCE FORUM - Keynote address
24 May 2002, Canberra

MARCONI INTERNATIONAL PRIZE LECTURE & MARCONI ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
4 December 2001, New York City

CLIFFORD PATERSON PRIZE Lecturer
December 2001, London

CREATIVITY, INNOVATIONS AND THE MIND - Invited Keynote for the AMP Chief Executive Officer Conference
7 March 2001, Melbourne

THE GREAT LEADERS OF THE FUTURE
Keynote with Mr Jeff Kennett (former Victorian Premier) and Tan Le (former Young Australian of the Year) for the 2000 National Young Leaders Day
10 November 2000, Melbourne

"WHAT MAKES A CHAMPION?" OPENING ADDRESS and
Introduction to the Prime Minister (see also the Prime Minister's comments on Allan Snyder)
3 September 2000, Primetime ABC television

BLINDED BY YOUR EXPERTISE
Presented by Allan Snyder at the Australian Pacific Healthy Cities Conference, the National Convention Centre.
26 June 2000, Canberra

CREATIVITY - Creative Mind Essay Competition 2000 Award Ceremony
20 May 2000, Sydney

OPENING ADDRESS
of the Centre of the Mind at the University of Sydney
11 April 2000

LITERACY IN THE EARLY YEARS: Home and school, what works?
3 September 1999

BREAKTHROUGHS COME FROM WAY OUT IN LEFT FIELD
Keynote address to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas
10 July 1999

REACH FOR THE STARS
Keynote Address by Allan Snyder to the Golden Key National Honour Society.
13 May 1999

LECTURE to 3rd Grade Students
29 April 1999, Canberra

BREAKING MINDSETS
Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA) The National Library of Australia
8 December 1998

WHAT MAKES A CHAMPION?
The inaugural Edwin Flack lecture for the Australian Olympic Committee
26 June 1998

DREAM OF AN AUSTRALIA THAT EXUDES CREATIVITY
The Australia Unlimited Round Table Conference. Other speakers included John Howard, Kim Beazley and International Monetary Foundation Chairman Michael Camdessus.
5 May 1998, Melbourne

CELEBRATING THE CREATIVE MIND
Professor Snyder's introduction to the Centre's celebration of the Creative Mind
April 1999

GRADUATION ADDRESS
1997 Australian National University graduation address.
26 September 1997, Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University Canberra

SHEDDING LIGHT ON CREATIVITY
Mills oration for the Royal College of Physicians, previously given by the Governor-General of Australia 8 May 1996