Built by Athletes. Backed by Science. Driven by Impact.
Meet the team rewriting the rules of mental health training—using the science of sport to prepare kids for pressure.
Sean Tuohey
Founder & Director
Sean uses play to drive transformation. He founded PeacePlayers—an international nonprofit uniting youth across conflict zones through basketball. With Intellectual Athlete, he’s delivering performance psychology as a Trojan horse for mental health, building resilience through sport.
Alec Wortman
Director of Mental Performance
Alec turns sport into a vehicle for mindset mastery. With a background in psychology, kinesiology, and neuroscience—and over a decade of coaching—he teaches teens to self-regulate under stress using breathwork, visualization, and cognitive performance drills.
Jasmin Johansen Hickman
Chief Business Architect
Jasmin is scaling IA's vision. With deep expertise in systems design and social enterprise growth, she’s building the infrastructure to bring self-regulation training to more schools, teams, and communities—sustainably and at scale.
OUR MISSION
Why We Do This
We believe every young person deserves tools to thrive under pressure. By disguising mental health training as performance enhancement, we're breaking down barriers and building resilience where it matters most—in the moment, on the field, when it counts.
OUR APPROACH
Performance Psychology Meets Real-World Application
Evidence-Based
Everything we teach is grounded in research and validated through randomized controlled trials.
Sport-Integrated
Mental skills are taught through movement, competition, and pressure—not lectures.
Stigma-Free
Our training looks like performance coaching—but delivers real mental health benefits without the therapy label.