Advisory at the intersection of health, performance, science, technology, and ambition.
Building Better Humans. Building Better Systems.
Strategic advisory for individuals and organizations shaping the future of health, performance, and human flourishing.
Throughout my career, I have found myself drawn to people attempting difficult things. Founders building companies. Physicians rethinking healthcare. Athletes pursuing extraordinary performance. Researchers exploring new frontiers of science. Leaders responsible for making decisions under uncertainty. While these worlds appear different on the surface, they often share similar challenges: navigating complexity, managing risk, making decisions with incomplete information, building capable teams, and maintaining perspective while pursuing ambitious goals. My role as an advisor is to help individuals and organizations think more clearly about those challenges. I bring a multidisciplinary perspective shaped by years working across human performance, physiology, medicine, research, technology, and innovation. I am particularly interested in the intersection of health, performance, ambition, leadership, and the future of human potential. Sometimes this means helping evaluate a strategic decision. Sometimes it means connecting ideas across disciplines. Sometimes it means challenging assumptions, identifying blind spots, or providing an independent perspective during periods of growth and change. I am most energized by working with curious people who are building, exploring, improving, or attempting something that matters. Areas I frequently advise on include:
Human performance and optimization
Health, longevity, and emerging medical technologies
Sports science and athlete development
Leadership and decision-making
Innovation and product strategy
Scientific and medical advisory
Ambition, capability, and high-performance cultures
I typically work with a small number of individuals and organizations at any one time to ensure each engagement receives meaningful attention. If you’re working on something ambitious and believe a conversation may be valuable, I’d be delighted to hear from you.
Navigate Your Vision
Many humans have untapped potential because they don’t fully understand how to leverage their mind and body to achieve their vision of success in lifestyle and career. Untapped potential means we are not performing to our fullest capabilities. In this state we tend to more often than not feel less fulfilled than what we can be. When we fail to fully make use of our abilities and talents we tend to underperform and this initially appears in the form of pain, anxiety, stress, issues with health, exhaustion, lack of focus, burnout and unnecessary struggle. Sometimes these symptoms can be overwhelming and other times they can be very subtle. I coach world champion athletes and Olympians, surgeons and doctors, business professionals, founders, CEOs and other executives, Hollywood actors, film producers, musicians, artists, cybersecurity "hackers" and gamers, navy seals, professional gamers, writers, therapists, coaches, scientists and even a world class chess player. I work with individuals and teams from all different backgrounds and phases of life. In my experience, it is the most successful and extraordinary humans that invest time and energy learning how to access untapped potential and avoid underperformance. My coaching works holistically with the mind, body and spirit of the client, because we cannot adjust one without influencing the other. I consider coaching a journey towards a mutually agreed destination - a vision of success, whether that be money, status, achievement, recovery, peace, freedom from fear or fulfillment. It is my mission to work with you so that you can achieve your vision in the most healthy, sustainable and accelerated manner.
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Protect Your Success
Have you got a physiological and psychological protection system? Just as modern day cars possess safety and protection systems like alarms, motion sensors, airbags etc., high performing humans thrive when they have a plan and strategies that not only empowers them to perform better but it protects their optimal state from breaking down under fatigue and the various setbacks we may face on the journey towards our vision. Without this blueprint, we lose time, money, momentum and our ability to generate success suffers especially when life's challenges and assaults hit harder than we account for. So we must learn to cease opportunities, leverage our own abilities, discover new gifts and skills, communicate our ideas, put plan into action and flexibly grapple with extreme circumstances. Lifeproof is a scientifically-based performance protection system that enables humans to seamlessly navigate difficult circumstances, overcome past and current adversities, perform under pressure and deal with unexpected real life and career events. The most extraordinary humans have learned how to pace themselves to peak when it matters most and rest just enough to maintain momentum. If we truly desire extraordinary success that lasts a lifetime then we must tap into the power possessed within our mind and body while simultaneously protecting our career and quality of life. These are the principles of my coaching. If you think that you are ready, then hit a contact button below.
“There is no human resource more powerful than the power of fully trusting in our own ability. But to execute our vision successfully without deadly sacrifices and losses we must use our power wisely by finding a balance between what we dream of doing and the actual limits of our ability. With coaching, we develop a plan and strategy that elevates and protects performance so that you can spend less time worrying about when and how you might break and more time focusing on what matters most to you.”
- Dan Turner
Testimonials
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Sasha DiGiulian, World Champion Climber, Entrepreneur, Writer & Philanthropist
I learned a lot of valuable information about both myself and performance through working with Dan Turner. It was helpful to work with someone with such an acute awareness of the body and the way in which it functions to understand how to best utilize the physical tools I already have to optimize my performance. We also dove into mindset work, which enhanced the way in which I think and feel about myself and my relationship with my sport. Dan is someone that I deeply respect as a performance coach, and whom I have benefitted from working with.
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David Colturi, Professional Cliff Diver, Entrepreneur and Coach
Having Dan in my corner has been instrumental to my success both professionally as an athlete, and personally as a happy, mindful human being. Dan is one of those rare individuals that always has a smile on his face, constantly spreading joy and compassion, and always building people up around him. He leads by example, and is an indefatigable source of motivation and enjoyment through tough training sessions and long analyses. His vast knowledge and continual research keeps us at the forefront of high performance, and his ability to explain complicated science and intricate details helps me take these tools on the road and perform at my best all year long. Dan is not only a world class coach, but an incredible person who I’m grateful to ride bikes with, surf waves, and enjoy life with any day of the week.
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Kate Courtney, Professional Mountain Biking, World Champion and Olympian
As an athlete, there are so many mental and physical factors that can impact performance. It is often hard to separate out and measure those factors individually, but even more challenging to grasp how the entire ecosystem is working together. When I first began working with Dan, I was impressed by his holistic approach and the ability to use concrete testing and data to paint a clear picture of what was going on in my body. Through our work together, I was able to better understand my physiology and also work on factors - both mental and physical - that could bring about my best performance not just in the short term, but over the course of a long career. Dan is a pleasure to work with and a partner in bringing the best out of any athlete who is lucky enough to have his guidance.
Letter from a Resident Surgeon
I am a general surgery resident in a 1300 bed academic hospital. Like most of my colleagues, I have experienced the “growing pains” of becoming a surgeon capable of handling the demands that come with complex patient care. After a particularly rough rotation with significant penetrating trauma and loss of life, frequent call, and a ballooning patient census, I noticed a change in myself and my colleagues. We were clearly losing our ability to connect, empathize, and had given literally all we had to give to patients. We were just getting through the day rather than thriving and in residency each day you just “get through” is an opportunity to learn that you didn’t or couldn’t take advantage of.
When I met Dan, his positivity and open mindedness was a shock to the system and I nearly discounted his intelligence because I was unused to data being presented to me by someone with his disposition. It wasn’t until he began furiously scribbling math equations to explain my sleep deficit, that I realized his ability to apply science to issues related to burnout would make him invaluable. I am a scientist and skeptical by training. Dan respected my need for data and provided it when I asked for it. Dan makes several analogies to his professional athletes related to burnout and in athletes, performance is easily measured and therefore easier for me to grasp. I had never considered this comparison and his explanation has begun to help me reconstruct my coping mechanisms. Dan has worked with me on “recovery” after intense periods where clinical demands stretch my abilities as a physician. Similar to an athlete, as my recovery has become more efficient, I can push myself clinically sooner without symptoms of burnout.
Dan has worked with me on a comprehensive “plan of attack.” We have discussed barriers to good nutrition in the hospital which resulted in a recipe for portable nutrition and an amazon list in my inbox. We discussed the physical demands and ergonomics of the operating room which resulted in recommendations (and the links for scheduling) for local Pilates instruction to help strengthen my stabilize my core as well as recommendations for how to plan for rest throughout my unpredictable call schedule. Each time I presented Dan with a barrier to improving burnout, he provided options. Each time I put up a barrier, he found a way around it to help me get out of my own way. Since there is not good data on viable treatments for burnout in physicians, Dan pulled options from fields outside of my knowledge base and adapted them for my situation. I would highly recommend him as a performance coach for any resident who feels that they have untapped potential that seems to be limited by bandwidth. In residency efficient recovery equals more opportunities.
Lauren Barron, MD