Chairperson
Dr Ashley Berge
Dr Berge is the world’s leading scientist on coach and athlete performance with a PhD in two fields, across two methodologies, spanning across the globe. A front runner and forerunner that uncovered landmark findings in the sporting domain, Dr Berge is behind the unique framework that allows these key underpinnings to be transferred from one domain — the sporting world, to the next — the private to public sectors. Key expertise spans across the developmental cycle — human behaviour to psychology, child to adolescent development within the sporting framework, elite to developmental coaching to learning pedagogy and framing, the communication exchange and relationship inner-workings with an overarching theme of optimal performance outcomes.
With a total of 10 Books published and another pending release, Dr Berge continues to build, design and develop the foundations for the leaders of tomorrow — whether in high performance to elite sport, or the cross-sectional applications in a variety of business structures. As a startup founder to a seasoned executive — a CEO of 11 years and counting, Dr Berge has designed global funding initiatives upwards of $100M to universal educational reforms exceeding $300M and beyond. Comfortable in the c-suite to the sporting field, Dr Berge thrives off a team to be built, mentored and coached — having scaled teams single-handedly to 80+ to managing teams of 400, to a problem to be solved.
A problem that Dr Berge confronted head-on was the global misuse of personal data from tech-giants across the world. This resulted in the birth of Australia’s first micro social network that allowed users control of their own data. Another problem, this time close to Dr Berge’s heart as a former elite athlete and renowned coach inside the top 1% of elite coaches worldwide, was and remains the accessibility and affordability, for students and athletes alike, irrespective of their stage of development. This driving force was subsequently responsible for the design, development and delivery of a world-first subscription model for athletes to access at a fraction of the cost involved to partake in the elite sporting cycle including a 10 Year Pathway attributed towards 20 Years of Play.
With a background that spans from child to athlete development to the c-suite and solving some of the world’s most pressing problems, Dr Berge looks forward to leveraging the range of her expertise to help EMDRAA to take its place in mainstream health care-options as a feasible and highly recognised choice to help those in need.