Dr. Stephen Long is the founder & president of Long Training+Research, specializing in human performance, leadership effectiveness, talent optimization, and strategy execution. For more than 30 years, he has unlocked the potential of exceptional leaders, champion athletes, fighter pilots, military special operations personnel, elite producers, and corporate executives. The author of four books, he earned his PhD from the University of Kansas, where he was honored as the Most Outstanding Doctoral Student while serving as the Director of the KU Peak Performance Clinic. He then served as the Head of Performance Psychology in the Human Performance Lab at the US Air Force Academy. A University of Utah independent study identified Dr. Long as one of North America’s top applied performance psychologists.