About the Good Doctor...

His expertise is at helping athletes and coaches reach their peak potential. Called, "a pioneer in mental training", he became one of the first sport psychologists to work with the U.S. Olympic team, professional teams and a major university in the 1980's. Since 1992, he has hosted an extremely popular weekly sport psychology radio call-in show. He has produced numerous audio programs on success and visualization and has given over 1000 speeches nationally about mental training and sportsmanship. But, most importantly, he loves what he does.

Even though he has been involved in sport psychology since 1980, it took him only a matter of minutes to realize it's what he wanted to do with his career. "I enrolled in a class on sport psychology and five minutes into the class, I knew it was what I wanted to do. I liked the idea and challenge of helping healthy people reach their potential".

Dr. Jacobs grew up in Kansas City, received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in 1976 and his doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology: San Diego in 1981, with a specialty in sport psychology and performance enhancement.

In 1980, he participated in one of the country's first sport psychology training programs at San Diego State University. This led to him becoming the first sport psychologist at the University of Kansas, where he worked from 1981 to 1985. Dr. Jacobs worked with the U. S. Cycling team from 1982 until 1988 including the 1984 Olympics and three World Championships (1983, 1985, 1986). In the 1984 Olympics, the team won nine medals, the first medals won in 72 years.

ABC's "Good Morning America" interviewed him about the contribution that mental training had made with the cycling team. During the 1980's, he also consulted with the USA Swimming and USA Weightlifting federations.

In the 1980's and 1990's, he worked with numerous professional and collegiate teams, including the Chicago White Sox minor league system, the Kansas City Royals and the Kansas City Comets of the MISL. He has consulted with numerous national organizations in swimming, golf and tennis, and has been interviewed nationally on radio, television and print media. Most recently, he has appeared twice on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" and on ESPN's "Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith".

Dr. Jacobs has consulted with Reebok, helping them develop their Cycle Reebok program. He has also worked with the Menninger Leadership Center, designing, "The Fifth Quarter", a program to aid professional athletes with their lives after sport. He has written over 100 articles on sport psychology and has taught numerous classes on mental training and sportsmanship throughout the country.

Dr. Jacobs grew up playing all sports, but specialized in tennis. He is the father of two teenage sons and has a passion for working out and playing golf and tennis.

One of his significant role models was his uncle, Hirsch Jacobs. When he died in 1970, he was the winningest trainer in horse racing history and was elected to the Hall of Fame in horse racing. His uncle taught him that the greatest lesson you learn from sports is not when you succeed, but how you come back after you have failed. That message has helped Dr. Jacobs not only become an expert in sport psychology, but it has helped him assist his clients at reaching their potential, not only in sports, but in life.