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Sport Psychologists & Mental Performance Consultants

Clearer insights. Faster buy-in. Measurable performance outcomes. An assessment suite and support service designed around the work you actually do.

Enhance your mental performance toolkit with sport-specific DISC Profiles, 360 assessments, and accreditation pathways that strengthen the impact of your work. Turn behavioral insight into practical strategies your clients can actually implement.

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Who This Is For

Sport psychologists and mental performance consultants working with athletes, coaches, and teams from developmental stages through to Olympic and professional teams. Team8 People partners to support how you already work, not the other way around.

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Independent Practitioners

Sport Psychologists and Certified Mental Performance Consultants (CMPCs) working independently or as part of a consulting practice. Add behavioral assessment to your existing toolkit for use across athlete development, coach work, team engagements, and longer-term client programs, with practitioner pricing and support as your usage grows.

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Embedded Specialists

Practitioners embedded within professional teams, Olympic programs, NCAA athletic departments, and other high-performance environments. Use a shared behavioral framework across athletes, coaches, and performance staff to support individual development while strengthening communication and alignment across the wider program.

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Mental Performance Departments

Mental performance and high-performance teams supporting athletes and coaches across a program or organization. Team8 People’s assessment range gives departments a consistent behavioral language that can be used across individual consulting, coach development, team work, and wider performance initiatives.

How Sport Psychologists Partner With Team8 People

Benefit from a framework that strengthens the impact of your performance psychology work, helping clients turn insight into action across athletes, coaches, teams, and sport leadership.

Team Dynamics & Culture Development Programs

DISC Profiling provides a shared language that helps teams better understand behavioral differences, communication preferences, and the dynamics influencing how they work together. Combine AthleteDISC, CoachDISC, and Sports ManagerDISC across whole-team or program engagements, and utilise the team-level reporting included at no cost. 

There is also the ability to use the 360 Observer Feedback capability to provide providing further insight into the relationships and behavioral patterns around the group to take your client’s development to the next level.

Sport Leadership & High-Performance Management

Sports ManagerDISC helps performance leaders and sport administrators understand how their behavioral style influences decision-making, stakeholder relationships, and organizational culture. It extends the assessment methodology beyond athletes and coaches to the leaders shaping the performance environment around them.

Athlete Development & Performance Behavior Coaching

Use AthleteDISC to help athletes understand how they communicate, respond to pressure and feedback, work within a team, and approach high-stakes environments. Purpose-built for the athletic context and written in language athletes recognize, it gives practitioners a practical behavioral framework that can be carried into training, competition, and ongoing mental performance work.

Coach Development & Coaching Effectiveness

Use CoachDISC to explore how a coach’s behavioral style shapes communication, feedback, leadership, and their relationships with athletes. For sport psychologists and mental performance consultants working across the wider performance environment, it provides a practical way to work on coach-athlete alignment alongside individual athlete development.

Programs

Recommended Pathway for Sport Psychologists & Mental Performance Consultants

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DISC Accreditation With a Sport Focus

Team8 People’s DISC Accreditation is the primary pathway for sport psychologists who want to embed DISC within their work. Become accredited to use the full Team8 People DISC range, with a particular focus on AthleteDISC, CoachDISC, and Sports ManagerDISC in the context of your own practice.

Training is delivered through six tailored one-on-one sessions with Bo Hanson, Founder and Director of Team8 People, who brings more than 30 years of experience using DISC in sport. The program draws on that real-world experience and Team8 People’s long history of developing and applying sport-specific DISC assessments.

The sport-focused DISC Accreditation Program also includes a package of assessments, full administration support, co-branding, and facilitation and marketing resources, with the training centered on practical application in sport.

What's Included:
  • One-on-one training, tailored to your role and intended use, with a specific focus on DISC in sport
  • A package of 10 DISC Assessments to get started
  • Training and facilitation materials, plus full ongoing mentoring support
  • Co-branded reports and account platform
  • Exclusive wholesale pricing
  • Administration and marketing support
  • Access to our Global Consultant Network to connect with others in your field
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Emotional Intelligence Accreditation

Take your mental performance toolkit to the next level and become accredited in the Emotional Intelligence 360 at the same time. Combined DISC & EI Accreditation gives you access to our full range of DISC Profiles plus the EI 360, sequenced together as two assessments that can be effectively used in athlete, coach, and leadership development.

What's Included:
  • Includes everything in the DISC Accreditation Program, plus:
  • Two additional training sessions to build EI into your program
  • A package of EI 360 Assessments
  • Specific EI 360 training and facilitation materials
Tools & Assessments

Key Tools for Mental Performance Practice

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AthleteDISC Behavioral Profile

AthleteDISC Behavioral Profile

AthleteDISC gives athletes a practical framework for understanding how they communicate, respond to pressure and feedback, work within teams, and approach competition. For sport psychologists and mental performance consultants, it creates a tangible starting point for conversations about behavior and gives athletes language they can carry into training, competition, and ongoing development.
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CoachDISC behavioral profile for coaches

CoachDISC Behavioral Profile

CoachDISC Behavioral Profile

CoachDISC brings the same behavioral insight to the coaching side of the performance environment, helping coaches understand how their style influences communication, feedback, leadership, and relationships with athletes. It gives practitioners a practical way to explore coach-athlete alignment and work with the people shaping the athlete’s day-to-day environment.
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Sports ManagerDISC Behavioral Profile

Sports ManagerDISC Behavioral Profile

Sports ManagerDISC extends the behavioral framework to the leaders shaping the wider performance environment, including athletic directors, general managers, and sport administrators. It helps practitioners explore how leadership behavior influences decision-making, stakeholder relationships, and the culture surrounding athletes and coaches.
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DISC AI Coach Functionality

DISC AI Coach Functionality

our personal DISC assistant, purpose-built for practitioners and administrators. Available through the Team8 People DISC administrator platform to accredited sport psychologists, mental performance consultants, coaches, and program administrators with administrative access, rather than individual profile participants. Use it to add context to individual, pair, or group results, prepare for client sessions, plan development conversations, and extend the ongoing value of DISC.
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360 Reviews

360 Reviews

Add structured multi-rater 360° feedback when development needs to move beyond self-perception. The Athlete Leader 360, Coach 360, and Sports Manager 360 show how leadership effectiveness is experienced by the people around each individual, giving practitioners clearer insight into gaps between intention and impact and more targeted priorities for ongoing development.
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Team8 People EI 360 Report

EI 360

EI 360

Our proprietary Emotional Intelligence 360 assessment combines self-perception with structured observer feedback across its four Elements and 18 Competencies. It helps athletes, coaches, and leaders understand how others experience their emotional intelligence and identify targeted development priorities. Used after DISC, it provides a natural next step by building on behavioral self-awareness with a deeper understanding of emotional intelligence.
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DISC Card Game

DISC Card Game

A practical facilitation tool for bringing DISC language into group work without relying solely on Profile reports. Use the cards to explore behavioral differences, communication preferences, and team dynamics with athletes, coaches, or mixed groups, whether participants have completed full DISC Profiles or not. Included as part of DISC Accreditation.
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Why Sport Psychologists Choose Team8 People

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Team8 People (formerly Athlete Assessments) is recognized internationally for behavioral profiling in high-performance sport. We have worked with professional teams, Olympic and Paralympic programs, national sporting bodies, universities, and leading sport consultants worldwide. We created the first, and still only, DISC Profile specifically for sport validated for reliability and construct validity.

AthleteDISC, CoachDISC, and Sports ManagerDISC are not repurposed or rebranded business tools. They combine established behavioral science with decades of applied experience across sport.

Built for elite coaching environments, performance psychology, leadership and culture programs, professional and collegiate sport systems, and athlete support services, they use language your clients recognize and relate to. That means less time translating workplace terminology and more time applying the insight to the performance environment in front of you.

You wouldn’t expect an athlete to internalize a new skill or concept in one session, so we don’t structure our accreditation as a two-day intensive either.

DISC Accreditation is delivered through six tailored one-on-one sessions rather than a single intensive course. This gives you time to use the assessments with real clients during the training, bring those experiences back into later sessions, and apply the learning directly within your own practice.

Ongoing mentoring also continues well beyond the formal training. 

We genuinely value our relationship with our clients and believe our success lies in the success of your organization using our reports, which is why we’ll never surprise you with hidden fees or paywalls to access resources.

  • No annual reaccreditation, licensing, or hidden administration fees.
  • No paywall between you and the facilitation resources you need to actually use the assessments effectively.
  • No additional costs for supporting capabilities such as the Team Dynamic Report or the DISC AI Coach.

 

Once accredited, the only things you’ll pay for are the individual assessments you need, at exclusive wholesale pricing. Everything else is included as part of our service and support.

Team8 People was founded by Bo Hanson, four-time Olympian and three-time Olympic medalist for Australia. The same applied behavioral science that underpins our work with Olympic programs, NCAA athletic departments, and professional teams sits at the center of the assessments and development programs we deliver.

DISC Accreditation gives you access to all six Team8 People DISC variants, allowing the same behavioral framework to be used across sport, business, education, and tactical environments. For practitioners whose work extends beyond sport, that means one DISC methodology can move with your practice while the language and reporting remain tailored to the context in which each client operates.

Work Beyond Sport Too? So Do We.

Many sport psychologists and mental performance consultants work across more than one context. That might include executive coaching engagements, consulting work with defense or emergency services teams where the performance dynamics closely mirror sport, occasional program delivery in schools and universities, or leadership development contexts.

If any of that describes your practice, or something similar, Team8 People can support your DISC work across each of those contexts. Your DISC Accreditation gives you access to the full cross-industry DISC Profile range, allowing you to use the same underlying behavioral framework while giving clients assessments written specifically for the environments in which they operate.

Consistent methodology across every assessment. Purpose-built language for each context. Wholesale consultant pricing across the full suite of assessments. One accreditation, unlimited applications.

What our clients say

Hear from a Sport Psychologist working with Team8 People:

“The DISC assessment really helps you individualize your work…and one of the real interesting assets of DISC is that I can administer it to both players and coaches… It’s incredibly useful to see where we’re in sync and where adjustments are needed… and we use these assessments as a foundation to find their strengths, areas of growth, and areas we need to put time into. It can cut down an entire six months, or a season, of just getting to know the player.”

Vincent Lodato, Executive Director of Mental Conditioning at the National Sports Performance Institute and Director of Mental Wellness and Player Performance at Utah Hockey Club

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Hear from others working in Mental Performance:

"While we have recently started our journey with DISC, we see the potential for it to have an impact on our staffs. We believe that it will help us better understand each coach's communication styles and ideally significantly improve collaboration and conflict resolution. The training provides valuable insight in identifying strengths and areas for growth, with the end goal being a more productive work environment and a better product for our athletes."
Francisco Rodriguez
Francisco RodriguezMental Performance Coach, San Francisco Giants
“Partnering with Athlete Assessments to provide their sports specific DISC Profiles and other materials to my clients, I know I am giving them my very best. I am very selective with whom I partner. I realize how precious my professional reputation is and how important the trust of my clients is to me.”
Becky Ahlgren Bedics, Ed.D.
Becky Ahlgren Bedics, Ed.D.Vice President of Mental Health & Performance, Women's Tennis Association; and Owner/President of Ahlgren Bedics Consulting, LLC
“DISC is a very well established tool, but Athlete Assessments have made it all digestible for Coaches and athletes (using sport language and examples) which makes it very useful when working with our diverse group of clients.”
Dr. Justin Anderson
Dr. Justin AndersonSport Psychologist, Premier Sport Psychology
“The most important aspects of DISC are the education around self-awareness and communication with others... Diving deeper into understanding who you are and being better able to engage with others. Athlete Assessments’ DISC Profiles are the foundation for getting the best out of people.”
Samantha Gilmore
Samantha GilmoreMental Performance Consultant, University of California Berkeley
“Getting certified in Athlete Assessments’ DISC has helped me understand so much more about the behavioral tendencies of the coaches and athletes I work with. It has helped people who struggle to explain themselves, give them (and me) a better understanding; which then drives our sessions.”
Dr Nicole Detling
Dr Nicole DetlingSport Psychologist, HeadStrong Consulting, LLC
“The AthleteDISC is an invaluable tool that provides a wealth of information I use to help athletes enhance their performance and improve their cognitive training. I have also found great success in using DISC as a team-building assessment which focuses on greater communication and team cohesion”.
Dr. Ed Garrett
Dr. Ed GarrettSport Psychologist, California Baptist University / Association for Applied Sport Psychology
“To be the first in the world to introduce two DISC profile tools in the language of his own country, Hungarian, I am proud to be an Athlete Assessments consultant.”
Szabolcs Hollósi
Szabolcs HollósiFounder, Kell Egy Csapat Élmény Kft. (Hungary)
“Some of the challenges DISC has helped us overcome include misconceptions about how things are being delivered or not delivered, accountability, communication and more. The Athlete Assessments DISC Profiles provide people with a better overall understanding of their coaches and teammates.”
Eline Vermeulen
Eline VermeulenAssociate Athletic Director of Student-Athlete Enrichment, Bucknell University
“The AthleteDISC Profiles have helped me paint a complete picture of my athletes. The DISC Profiles start creating an identity for us to build upon.”
Kyle McDonald
Kyle McDonaldMental Performance Consultant, Competitive Will Performance Consulting
“Athlete Assessments’ DISC Profiles give quality information that can be immediately understood and applied in a sport environment.”
Jeff Troesch
Jeff TroeschMental Performance Coach
“Knowing how others within the team culture behave can help to build greater empathy and understanding, as well as enhance group cohesiveness.”
Tim Bayley
Tim BayleyMental Training Consultant, Cal Poly Women's Basketball
“If I can understand the why, I can start giving the tools to help change or adapt behavior under different situations. So that’s what’s really important about the AthleteDISC and the CoachDISC, they give you the information to help you understand why people behave the way they do.”
Dr. Tiff Jones
Dr. Tiff JonesSport Psychologist & Founder, X-Factor Performance Consulting
“I choose DISC ahead of any other profiling tool because there are no good and bad profiles and my work is not about improving a profile. I can’t say that about most other tools I am accredited in using.”
Sandy Gordon
Sandy GordonFounder & Sport Psychologist, Performance Perspectives International
“Working with Athlete Assessments has helped me tremendously with helping my clients with self-awareness. What I like about the AthleteDISC Profile is that each person gets to learn about their tendencies and it provides me the opportunity to ask questions to identify situations that lead to peak performance.”
Rick Sessinghaus
Rick SessinghausMental Performance Coach, FlowCode Golf Academy
“I wanted to be able to share some objective, valid results from a psychological measure that described patterns that a person was able to influence. I had been exposed to Athlete Assessments’ DISC Profiles at AASP and chatted with the team to learn how it could be part of a battery of tests. After going through the training, I was hooked.”
Dr. LaTisha Bader
Dr. LaTisha BaderCertified Mental Performance Consultant, Unique Counseling and Consulting, PLLC
“Working with the team at Athlete Assessments has been awesome. Bo and Liz are really vested in connecting with the people/professionals who use Athlete Assessments. The customer service they and their staff provide is top notch. They really are here to help us in any way they can. I am proud to say I am trained in using the Athlete Assessments DISC profile."
Bob Tewksbury
Bob TewksburyCertified Mental Performance Coach
“DISC helps people put language around what they are seeing and what it means in comparison to their own profile and then, how they can meet in the middle to work together.”
Brian Alexander
Brian AlexanderCertified Mental Performance Consultant, Athlete Mental Skills Coach
“Every sport has their own language, so in the leadership space I’m trying to create a common language which we can all understand and use interchangeably; when we’re talking about conflict, motivation, stress, and results, we tie it all into DISC.”
Al Lattell
Al LattellExecutive Director, Cooper Athletics Leadership Program at Georgetown University
“What I love about the Athlete Assessments CoachDISC and AthleteDISC Profiles is that they are already in sport-speak. We don’t have to figure out how to utilize some of the concepts to make it fit, it already fits!”
Brent Kondritz
Brent KondritzAssistant Provost for Graduate and Professional Education, University of Dayton: Center for Leadership
“It makes me a more effective and efficient leader but also gives clients and athletes a much higher level of self-awareness so they can develop professionally, athletically and personally at a very fast rate.”
Sandra Chu
Sandra ChuTwo Tigers Consulting / Princeton University
“I use DISC in many different contexts. When I was first introduced to the Athlete Assessments DISC Profiles, it was quite enlightening, and it made me understand a few things, both about myself, but also how I connected with other people."
Sarah Leberman
Sarah LebermanProfessor of Leadership, Massey University
Completing my DISC Accreditation has been a real game changer for me, the athletes, and the organisations I work with. The one-on-ones with Bo provide a thorough understanding of the tool itself. The whole team at Athlete Assessments live and breathe what it means to get the people side of sport. The information gathered by DISC Profiles and the Accreditation Program has helped me in having a better understanding of myself and in creating more valuable, positive and impactful relations with athletes, coaches, and parents. If you’re thinking about it - you'll gain valuable insights and a competitive advantage on everybody else!!!
Michel Hogue
Michel HogueYouth Sports Development Specialist, CMP Coaching inc.
I've had such a positive experience with the DISC Accreditation Program! You and Rebekah have been so responsive and helpful when I've had questions, as well as generous with your time. In my sessions with Bo, I learned so much. He was prepared and engaged for each training session.
Andrew Bednarzik
Andrew BednarzikOwner and Performance Coach at Headwaters Coaching, LLC
Athlete Assessments provides second-to-none service. Training with Bo provided incredibly valuable lessons and tools, including meaningful dialogue and countless resources. The wrap-around service and ongoing support that partners receive distinguishes Athlete Assessments. I highly recommend this program!
Shoshanna Lewis
Shoshanna LewisVH Consulting
Bo Hanson and his team have been great from start to finish, with engaging DISC explanations in every session that made the accreditation experience both enjoyable and immediately applicable.
Taja Dotson
Taja DotsonAssistant Director of Leadership and Development at Colgate University Athletics

How to Get Started

1

Inquire

Tell us about your practice, your clients, and where you would like to strengthen your consulting toolkit.

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We Confirm Fit

Together we’ll identify whether DISC Accreditation is the right pathway and, if so, how we can align it with your schedule.

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Begin Your Training

Delivered directly with Bo Hanson, four-time Olympian and Founder of Team8 People. Purpose-built for sport practitioners, the training is spaced over time rather than delivered in a generic cohort format.

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Apply With Real Clients

Use your included package of assessments with real clients as part of your training, then bring those experiences back into later sessions to refine your knowledge and application.

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Ongoing Access & Support

Continue accessing the full DISC range at wholesale pricing, with facilitation and marketing resources, the DISC AI Coach, additional reporting capabilities, and ongoing consultant support included. No annual reaccreditation or renewal fees.

Ready to bring Team8 People into your practice?

Whether you work with athletes, coaches, teams, or leaders in sport, Team8 People’s DISC Profiles will help your clients:

  • Build stronger self-awareness
  • Improve communication
  • Manage and adapt to stress and pressure
  • Unlock consistent high performance

 

Take your consulting practice to the next level with sport-specific DISC Accreditation and access to the wider cross-industry DISC range for the work you do beyond sport.

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Quick FAQs

Can I use Team8 People's DISC Profiles with my existing sport psychology clients?

Yes. Once you're DISC Accredited, you can purchase and deliver AthleteDISC, CoachDISC, Sports ManagerDISC, and the wider Team8 People DISC range with any athlete, coach, team, or client you work with.

No formal prerequisite qualification is required. DISC Accreditation is designed for sport psychologists, mental performance consultants, coach developers, and others working in applied sport contexts.

Yes. Team8 People's DISC assessments are used with athletes and coaches at every level, from developmental through to professional and Olympic environments. Statistical validation is available on request.

Yes. You can embed the assessments within your own consulting methodology, program frameworks, and client engagements. Accredited practitioners also receive a co-branded account and reports, which can also include your client's branding to strengthen integration within a team.

Talk to a Sport Specialist on our team. We'll help map the right combination of assessments, accreditation, and consultant support to your practice.