Steve Ward : Performance Edge Founder and Performance Consultant

Steve is passionate about enhancing performance for people operating in high stakes, high pressure environments, and has over 25-years of teaching, coaching and training experience across over 30 countries.

Since 2005 Steve has specialised in working with traders, portfolio managers, analysts, sales, research, heads of desks and leadership teams, across asset class and experience levels, at banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodities trading houses, utilities and proprietary trading groups across the globe, helping them to improve their risk decision making, and ability to achieve and sustain high performance.

Prior to starting his work with within trading and investing Steve provided sports psychology coaching to elite athletes and teams in over thirty different sports across the globe, and he has also provided performance coaching for professional poker players.

His work is focused on delivering evidence-informed, practical strategies and tactics, drawn from the fields of human performance, behavioural science, contemporary psychology, and physiology; and is delivered through a range of interventions including workshops, training programs, 1-1 coaching, speaking engagements, assessments and consultancy and advisory.

He is the author of ‘Bulletproof Trader’, ’Trader Mind’ and ‘High Performance Trading’ and his work has featured in articles in the FT, Bloomberg and Reuters.