Dr Phil Jauncey
Performance & Elite Sports Psychologist
One of Australia’s most experienced and respected performance psychologists, working across corporate leadership, elite sport, education and personal development. Renowned for his dynamic presentation style and practical approach, Phil helps individuals and organisations unlock sustainable performance through self-awareness, mindset and effective human relationships.
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Dr Phil Jauncey is a performance psychologist whose work spans corporate facilitation, executive mentoring, staff and leadership education, counselling, parenting education, and elite sport. As a keynote speaker, he has been described as “one of Queensland’s most dynamic presenters… stimulating sports and professional audiences alike with a contagious passion for life that leaves guests wanting more” (Brisbane Breakfast Club).
Phil holds four tertiary degrees—Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Divinity, Master’s degree, and a Doctorate in Counselling and Educational Psychology. He has lectured extensively at tertiary institutions including Mt Gravatt CAE (now Griffith University), Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland. His teaching areas have included educational, social, developmental and multicultural psychology, counselling, marketing and performance psychology. In recognition of his impact as an educator, he was voted Outstanding Lecturer of the Year at QUT in 1990.
Phil is a registered psychologist, a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the APS College of Sports and Exercise Psychologists. He is also a member of Sports Medicine Australia.
Before entering private practice, Phil held senior corporate roles, including Advertising and Promotions Manager at Dreamworld and Marketing and Educational Specialist at Mincom. His expertise in language, social science and communication led to the development of innovative methods for improving advertising effectiveness across television and radio.
In 1991, Phil established himself as an independent consultant, working across business, sport, education and counselling. He is regularly engaged as a keynote speaker locally, nationally and internationally, and delivers in-house workshops covering staff evaluation, self-awareness, leadership, sales, marketing strategy and change management. His interactive workshops are designed to help participants build practical skills in communication, problem-solving, relationship management and leadership. A collaborative management training program he developed was submitted for international award consideration.
Phil has worked with an extensive range of corporate and government clients, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, NAB, ANZ, Westpac, St George Bank, Suncorp, KPMG, Queensland Health, Queensland Treasury, Education Queensland, Origin, Santos, Xstrata, Aviva, Austereo and numerous local councils including Brisbane, Logan, Mackay, Moreton Bay and Maranoa. He is an accredited educator with multiple government departments.
In elite sport, Phil is regarded as one of Australia’s most experienced applied sports psychologists. He has worked with professional teams across rugby league, AFL and cricket, including the Brisbane Broncos (over 15 years), Brisbane Lions (1994–2008), Queensland Bulls Cricket (20 years), South Sydney Rabbitohs (2017–2021 and again in 2025), Redcliffe Dolphins (2023–24, now on-call), and international teams including Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Cricket. He has also consulted to the English Rugby League team.
Phil has served as an on-call advisor to the Queensland Academy of Sport and the Australian Institute of Sport and worked with the Australian Cricket Team from 2001 to 2008. His Olympic experience includes attending the Barcelona 1992, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympic Games across multiple sports, including serving as coordinating psychologist for the Australian team in Athens. He has also worked with the Australian Davis Cup squad.
Beyond sport and business, Phil has applied his performance psychology techniques to actors, musicians and tertiary performers, including artists from the Australian National Academy of Music and Melba Opera. Two Australian university studies and a commissioned program at Rutgers University in the United States have examined and validated the effectiveness of his approach.
Phil continues to be deeply involved in education, delivering programs for principals, teachers, parents and students on learning strategies, stress management, self-regulation, leadership, relationships and thriving through change.
He is the author of Understanding Ourselves and Others (2nd edition), Managing Yourself and Others, and The Power of Positive Doing, a practical guide to performance psychology published via Amazon and iTunes, reflecting the evolution of his work and contemporary application of psychological principles.
Topics
- Understanding Ourselves and Others – helps people understand the differences between themselves and those around them
- Management Education – introduces effective ways of managing staff, ensuring they take responsibility for their role and their actions
- The Power of Positive Doing – gives participants an understanding of the difference between positive thinking and positive doing, and why action is so important
- Six Steps for Success – examines existing approaches with a view to developing more effective strategies (for business, parenting, coaching and personal well being)
- Changing Behaviour – discusses what real behavioural change requires and whether the focus of that change should be directed towards self or others
- Excuses are for Losers – explores why people make excuses and how that impacts on the individuals and those around them
- Goal Setting – helps clients gain focus and direction and ensure they understand the principle of goal setting and goal getting
- Profiling – Mozzie, Enforcer, Thinker, Feeler – personal differences and how they impact on our approaches to life and our interactions with others
- Handbrakes to success – rather than examining what ‘‘motivates” people for success, this looks at what stops them from gaining success
