Dr. Scott Goldman is a high performance and clinical psychologist with 25+ years of experience working with elite athletes and organizations in the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NCAA. His expertise extends across performance psychology, talent development, and organizational dynamics.
He’s also been a key advisor to the NCAA, co-authoring several mental health best practices and serving on its Mental Health Task Force. He holds fellow status with both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, and has trained under Albert Ellis, creator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
Dr. Goldman is the founder of AIQ+, a cutting-edge platform that combines decades of psychological insights with AI to assess and predict athletic intelligence. AIQ+ provides front offices, coaches, and players with instant, actionable data to improve talent acquisition, development, and performance. Designed to work alongside traditional evaluation tools, it helps teams identify trainability, mental agility, and decision-making under pressure—traits that often separate good athletes from great ones.
Chapters:
00:56 The Birth of AIQ: Merging Psychology and Sports
02:04 Understanding Athletic Intelligence Quotient (AIQ)
04:48 What Separates Good Athletes from Great Ones?
09:42 The Trainability of Mental Skills in Athletes
13:06 Misunderstandings in Athlete Cognitive Makeup
16:24 Using AIQ for Talent Selection and Development
20:11 Transferability of AIQ Beyond Sports
22:20 AIQ vs. Traditional Testing Methods
24:54 Leveraging AI and Data for Deeper Insights
28:07 The Future of AIQ and Its Expansion
31:43 Intelligent Athletes: Case Studies and Insights