About Transition Expertise
We are a team of psychologists who have spent the past three decades helping individuals, teams, and organizations to enhance their performance. Our experience confirms that business people, elite athletes, professional musicians, service industries, and people seeking to make this a better world to live in all share a common desire to perform at their best and thrive when given the means to do so. We provide those means.
Our mission is to enable people and organizations to realize their full potential and consistently perform at their best. In doing so they meet and exceed their objectives. They build an empowering culture and a life-enhancing work community. They also experience bring joy and personal satisfaction in their work
Our approach is experiential and directly related to the work context. We provide tools for personal self-management and a feedback procedure that sustains team development. We increase awareness and ability to change. We help organizations align culture, processes and systems with the minds and spirits of the workforce.
Christopher Connolly, PhD
Christopher Connolly co-founded SyCon – The Sporting Bodymind Group – with John Syer in 1979. Together they pioneered applied sports psychology and mental training in Britain with great success. His expertise is working with elite performers, leaders and teams to enhance their performance. He has developed unique insight into the transfer of expert knowledge and skills across expert domains, in particular amongst sport, music and business.
In the early stages of his career he worked with numerous national sports associations, Premiership football clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton FC, Olympic teams in the UK and Europe, and with professional sports teams in the United States.
In the 1980’s he began to work with the business community while still maintaining links with sport and performance. He is widely recognised and sought after as an expert in Team Development, Leadership and Executive Coaching.
As well as being a highly regarded executive coach, Christopher continues to act as coach and mental trainer to elite athletes and musicians. He has co-led research projects for businesses at a number of universities, members of UK Sport coaching staff and the Royal College of Music.
He has co-authored a number of books with John Syer including Sporting Body, Sporting Mind, Team Building Team Leader’s Guide, Think to Win and How Teamwork Works. He has lectured widely at conferences and within organisations and made numerous appearances on television and radio.
Christopher recently completed a 3 year research project on Transition Expertise which studied leaders in music, sport and business and identified the characteristics that enabled them to make repeated, successful career transitions from expert performers to leadership in their field.
Latest publication
Christopher Connolly
Transition Expertise and Identity
A Study of Individuals who Succeeded Repeatedly in Life and Career Transitions.
Hetty Einzig, MA
With a background in languages and the arts, Hetty’s roots are in transpersonal psychology, a values and potential based model that works with the cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual as an interconnected whole. A fully trained psychotherapist, this deeper understanding underpins her coaching and all her work.
Hetty’s approach is holistic, spanning work, life and strategic development issues; her systems perspective views the individual or team within their organisational and current context.
The thread that unites all her work is her passion and commitment to helping individuals and organisations realise their full potential through real action in the world. She works with a creative mix of intellectual challenge, humour, energy and reflection and a toolkit that includes imagery and story telling for deep personal engagement.
She works internationally with cross-cultural teams developing awareness, dialogue and change skills in leaders who want to make a difference. She has become increasingly interested in the contribution of business and organisations to the wider, complex, global social and environmental issues confronting us today.
Latest publication
Hetty Einzig
The Future of Coaching
Vision, Leadership and Responsibility in a transforming world.
Fernand Gobet, PhD
Fernand Gobet is Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is a world leader in the field of expertise and talent. He has also carried out influential research on the acquisition of language, scientific discovery and computational modelling. He has authored and co-authored over 400 publications, including eleven books. His latest books on expertise are Understanding Expertise: A multidisciplinary approach (2016), The Psychology of Chess (2018) and Transition Expertise and Identity (2024, with Christopher Connolly). He is an International Chess Master since 1985 and was made Honorary Citizen of Montpellier (France) in 1984.
Understanding Expertise: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
How do people become experts? To answer this question fully, we need to understand expertise on a number of levels ranging from the neural level to the psychological level and the social level. This book examines these topics from a range of perspectives and disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, sociology, education, law and artificial intelligence.
Latest publication
Fernand Gobet
Understanding Expertise
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Eulalie Charland
Eulalie Charland’s journey has been shaped by creativity, leadership, and transformation. Beginning her musical life at four years old, the violin became her anchor, leading her to play on international stages. After graduating from the Royal College of Music, she enjoyed two decades as a professional violinist in London, honing not only her performance but also the deeper art of connection with audiences, collaborators, and herself.
More recently, Eulalie’s resilience was tested through a devastating divorce and the challenges of recovering from complex PTSD. These experiences deepened her understanding of healing, growth, and the human capacity for transformation.
Her passion for empowering others extends to her role as co-founder of Synchrony, a chamber ensemble which fostered creativity and collaboration among women creators, transforming audience expectations through bold programming and intimate performances.
Now an Integral Coach, Eulalie integrates her expertise in focus, embodiment, and leadership to guide clients toward meaningful change. She balances her passions for tango, tantra, and motherhood with championing creativity and connection.
Latest Project
Synchrony is dedicated to prioritizing women in chamber music, providing a platform for creativity and collaboration. By championing works by female composers, both past and present, they aim to challenge audience expectations and create an intimate live music experience. Founded by Eulalie Charland and Gabriella Swallow in 2018, inspired by the UK centenary of universal suffrage and the #MeToo movement, Synchrony was born out of the desire to empower women in music. Based in London, the ensemble commissions new works from female composers and performs diverse repertoires in various venues, engaging audiences of all ages with passion and joy.