Paddy Steinfort · Performance Advisor

Elite performers never face the big moments alone. Neither should you.

For twenty years I got elite performers through the moments that decide everything. The pressure they carry is the same pressure you carry. Steinforts exists to put what works in their world into yours.

Paddy Steinfort
Paddy Steinfort
Performance Advisor
Why this exists

The best help in the world was locked in rooms most people never get into.

I spent my career inside those rooms: professional sport, trading floors, operating theatres, mission control. The pattern never changed. The people with the most on the line had a whole team behind them. Everyone else was left to white-knuckle it alone.

Steinforts is me handing that work to the people who never had a performance team. The founder. The operator. The person grinding at 1am with no one to call. The pressure is just as real. The help should be too.

Why my name's on it

Not “Something Something High Performance Group.”

A faceless firm can hide behind a logo. A name can't. When the work says Steinforts, you know exactly whose twenty years are behind it, and exactly who is accountable if it doesn't land. You're not hiring a brand. You're hiring me.

Why you can trust me with this

I came to this the long way.

The athlete

Nine years a pro

I was drafted into the AFL at seventeen and gave it nine years in the ruck, with a shoulder reconstruction almost every off-season. I learned how pressure works by living inside it.

The science

Physiotherapy, then Penn

I finished a physiotherapy degree, then a Master's in Applied Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Between them, I understood how the body and the mind actually behave when the stakes get personal.

Elite sport

Inside some of the best teams in the world

The Red Sox, the Eagles, the Blue Jays, the 76ers, Texas Tech, and Director of Performance for Football Australia. Years in the rooms where one moment decides a season, and a career.

Beyond the field

The same problem, everywhere

Then the calls came from outside sport: finance, the U.S. Army, surgeons mid-operation, NASA mission control. The same pattern showed up every time. I named it the Survival Spiral, and it became my book, Pressure Point.

Boston Red SoxPhiladelphia EaglesToronto Blue JaysPhiladelphia 76ersFootball AustraliaU.S. ArmyNASA Mission ControlStanford Medicine
Education Master of Applied Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Will I actually get you?

I start with your pressure, not a script.

I've sat with people carrying just about every kind of pressure there is: trading floors, operating theatres, locker rooms, mission control. So I don't reach for a template. I read where pressure is actually costing you, then build the protocol around your situation. The diagnosis always comes before the answer.

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The book

Pressure Point

The Survival Spiral, and how to catch it before it catches you. Everything I've learned, in one place.

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Work with Paddy

Find out where pressure is costing you.

A short, direct conversation about your situation and whether the work is a fit. No pitch, no pressure.

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