People
MindGame Africa is being built through a networked model that can bring together leadership, practitioners, researchers, faculty, advisors and specialist collaborators around the work that requires their expertise.
Leadership
Intellectual and strategic leadership guiding MindGame Africa's applied practice, research mandate, and professional standards.
Dr. Joshua A. Oparachukwu
Founder, MindGame Africa | Performance Psychologist | Performance Strategist
Dr. Joshua A. Oparachukwu is the Founder of MindGame Africa and a performance psychologist and performance strategist whose work sits at the intersection of human performance, applied psychology, research and professional education. His work focuses on understanding the psychological and behavioural factors that shape performance, particularly under pressure, and translating that knowledge into practical support for athletes, coaches, teams and other high pressure performers.
Professional Biography
Dr. Joshua A. Oparachukwu is the Founder of MindGame Africa, an African performance science, research, education and professional practice institution being built around the human and intellectual side of performance.
His work is grounded in performance psychology and applied performance science, with particular interest in how confidence, attention, self regulation, mistake response, pressure, decision making, communication and behavioural adaptation influence what performers are able to do when performance matters.
“MindGame Africa is being built around a simple idea: performance should be understood more deeply, supported more intelligently and studied within the environments in which it actually happens. My role is to help build the people, knowledge, practice and professional standards that make that possible.”
- Performance Psychology, University of Ibadan
- Sociology and Psychology of Sport, University of Ibadan
- Human Kinetics, University of Ibadan
Areas of Leadership Focus
Leadership Role Within MindGame Africa
As Founder, Dr. Oparachukwu provides the strategic, intellectual and professional direction for MindGame Africa. He leads the development of the institution's applied performance work, research priorities, education and professional development architecture, practitioner pathways and specialist collaborations.
His responsibility is also to ensure that MindGame Africa grows with clear professional boundaries. New disciplines, programmes, research relationships and technical capabilities should only be presented as active when the qualified people, methods and infrastructure required to deliver them properly are genuinely in place.