Shayamal Vallabhjee

Shayamal Vallabhjee is a best-selling author, sports scientist, psychologist, and high-performance coach to elite athletes, sports teams, and C-suite executives.

With over two decades of experience, he has helped hundreds of elite athletes including Olympians, World Cup cricket teams, and top-seeded athletes in tennis, track, and field, to enhance their competitive edge. He spent almost four years living as a monk, who owned nothing, at a Hare Krishna Temple in Durban, South Africa, before moving to India and starting a multimillion-dollar company which he successfully exited in 2017.

“Shayamal has been pivotal in my success, especially towards he backend of my career.” Mahesh Bhupathi (Former #1, 12 x Grand Slam Champion)

“Listening to Shayamal in person is an experience I wish everyone get the opportunity to enjoy.” Amit Mookim (CEO IQVIA)

His approach to performance enhancement is a unique blend of sports science, modern psychology and ancestral wisdom.
Shayamal is currently pioneering some psychological research with elite sports teams and athletes on the relationship between personality and stress.

His research focuses on the common personality markers found in high achievers and interventions that develop those markers over time.
Shayamal has delivered more than 1000 keynotes to date.

“There was not a single person who did not come up to me and appreciated the talk – it touched everyone… personally and provided a great deal of food for thought – on both how one can look at life and work. It was also an insightful learning to know how analytics could be used as a catalyst for human performance beyond the corporates, in areas that are more demanding, more real and where there exists almost a zero margin of error!” DN Prasad (Head of People: Google)