Dr. Mintz’ work in Sport Psychology includes consultant certification by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and as a member of the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry.  He is Chair of the Sport Psychology Committee of the New Jersey Psychological Association, a member of the Practice Committee of Division 47 (Sport and Exercise Psychology) and currently on the task force developing the practice guidelines for the Proficiency in Sport Psychology.  He has been an invited lecturer at the United States Gymnastics Science Symposium at the Gymnastics World Championships and is the creator and author of “Mind Your Game” performance seminars.  As an invited author for the recently published book, “School Sport Psychology”, Dr. Mintz provided a chapter on school based sport psychology consultation.  He is the Sport Psychologist to the United States Rowing Team and formerly to the United States Equestrian Team. He was one of 12 psychologists invited to the Beijing Olympics Sport Psychology planning meeting and was a sport psychology consultant to the US Team during the recent Beijing Games.  His consulting practice includes sport and  performance psychology services to several universities as well as senior executives seeking improved qualitative and quantitative performance in organizational and business settings.

Dr. Mintz’ personal athletic career includes competing as a finalist at the National Collegiate Rowing Championships, a qualifier and competitor in the New Jersey State Open and Amateur Golf Championships, and winner of his Club Championship. His wife, Betsy, and their four children are all competitive recreational athletes.

Research has applied these assessments methods in a a variety of contexts, including the study of health-relevant self-regulatory challenges. Dr. Cervone's work appears in approximately 75 professional journal articles and book chapters. He is author or editor of 5 volumes, including graduate (Caprara & Cervone, Personality: Determinants, Dynamics, and Potentials, Cambridge University Press) and undergraduate (Cervone & Pervin, Personality: Theory and Research, Wiley & Sons)texts that have been translated into numerous foreign languages for classroom use internationally.

Dr. Cervone is on the editorial board of Psychological Review, has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Research in Personality, and served as the program chairperson for the 2009 conference of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). In addition to his faculty position in the Department of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Washington and the University of Rome, and a residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Ross’ extensive army career includes an initial troop assignment in 1997 at Fort Hood, Texas serving as a Rifle Platoon Leader, Executive Officer, and Support Platoon Leader. After a successful deployment to Kosovo, the Secretary of the Army commended Ross’ unit for capturing two people on the CIA’s top ten most wanted list; bringing the Serbian and Albanian leadership together to start the dialogue of reconciliation; and preventing an armed conflict in Macedonia that would have threatened the NATO peace process.

Most recently, Ross served as the liaison to the Army football team and Director, Military Enhancement Program, Center for Enhanced Performance (CEP) at the United States Military Academy. Ross designed and co-taught an upper level elective course for 21st Century Warriors and conducted team-building workshops with a variety of teams including the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association. Ross advised the Army on developing and building a standardized framework for educating and training all military personnel about the intangible skills of performance. He is responsible for helping write the Soldier’s Creed and creating innovative training techniques to develop multi-skilled leaders with agile and adaptive mindsets in order to improve military performance as part of the Army transformation in October 2003. In addition, Ross spearheaded the proposal, development, and execution of the Army Center for Enhanced Performance (ACEP), an Army-wide lifelong peak performance program for all Army soldiers and families. As a respected USMA graduate, Ross served on a 10-member panel selected by the Superintendant in June/December 2007 to help develop a strategic plan for continuing the winning tradition of USMA.

Ross served 14 years in the military and was honorably discharged at the rank of Major with a collection of military honors. He is currently the Fullback and Special Teams Football Coach at West Point, and is also working towards his Ph.D. in Psychology.