Brent Macdonald
PhD
AB, CANADALet the learning flow over you! Dr. Macdonald is excited to share some of the key factors to enhance performance by drawing from 30+ years of extensive clinical work with children, young adults, and in consultation with their supporters (families, educators, mentors, coaches, managers).
Dr. Brent Macdonald is a registered psychologist in Alberta, BC, PEI, Nova Scotia, and the Northwest Territories, and is a certified teacher with over 25 years’ experience working with individuals with a variety of complex learning differences. He has taught at the junior and senior high level and was the assistant principal at an independent school for students with learning disabilities. Brent maintains consultative relationships with a variety of public, independent and charter schools across Canada. He is a sessional instructor in the Departments of Psychology, Continuing Education, and Community, Health & Education at Mount Royal University. He is also an adjunct assistant professor with the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary.
Brent is a frequent guest on CBC, Global Television, Breakfast Television, and CTV. He is currently the lead psychologist with his own practice, Macdonald Psychology Group (complexlearners.com), which in addition to providing counselling and assessment services, also provides consultation services to educators and parents. Brent works extensively with highly complex clients, including both low- and high-performing children, adolescents and adults with a focus on overcoming learning challenges, perfectionism and enhancing mental toughness. In relation to mental toughness, Brent has recently published his new book Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Mental Toughness for Everyone with Kendall-Hunt Publishing, available at https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/fall-seven-times-stand-eight-mental-toughness-everyone
Dr. Brent Macdonald is a registered psychologist in Alberta, BC, PEI, Nova Scotia, and the Northwest Territories, and is a certified teacher with over 25 years’ experience working with individuals with a variety of complex learning differences. He has taught at the junior and senior high level and was the assistant principal at an independent school for students with learning disabilities. Brent maintains consultative relationships with a variety of public, independent and charter schools across Canada. He is a sessional instructor in the Departments of Psychology, Continuing Education, and Community, Health & Education at Mount Royal University. He is also an adjunct assistant professor with the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary.
Brent is a frequent guest on CBC, Global Television, Breakfast Television, and CTV. He is currently the lead psychologist with his own practice, Macdonald Psychology Group (complexlearners.com), which in addition to providing counselling and assessment services, also provides consultation services to educators and parents. Brent works extensively with highly complex clients, including both low- and high-performing children, adolescents and adults with a focus on overcoming learning challenges, perfectionism and enhancing mental toughness. In relation to mental toughness, Brent has recently published his new book Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Mental Toughness for Everyone with Kendall-Hunt Publishing, available at https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/fall-seven-times-stand-eight-mental-toughness-everyone
Using Mental Toughness to Enhance Performance
Format: 60-90 Minute Keynote
This program is perfect for:
- Those who want immediate results that will show an improvement in enhanced performance
- Those who wish to develop their own mental toughness to allow them to function at their best at work/ home/ community
The audience will leave with:
- A specififc understanding of what mental toughness is and...
