Dr. John F. Murray has been providing professional consulting services to help individuals, organizations and teams succeed for more than 12 years. He is a top-selling author and columnist, and frequently speaks and conducts seminars to business and sports groups on topics such as performance enhancement, mental health, fitness, wellness, and lifestyle. He is frequently invited on television and radio to discuss these issues, and his commentary appears in thousands of newspapers, magazines, and trade journals.

Dr. Murray is a rare sport performance psychologist and clinical psychologist, licensed in the state of Florida since 1999. Dr. Murray earned a bachelors degree in psychology from Loyola University of New Orleans (1983), two masters degrees (1992 and 1995), and a Ph.D. (1998) from the University of Florida Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. His first master's degree is from the sport psychology track within the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences in the College of Health and Human Performance. His doctoral dissertation examined psychological factors on the 1996 national champion University of Florida Gators football team. He then completed a unique counseling and sport psychology internship at Washington State University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Florida International University.

This dual specialization provides him expertise to handle personal as well as performance-related issues in business and sports. He received his professional training at one of the top ranked doctoral programs in the country involving academic coursework, publication of a master's thesis and doctoral dissertation, and rigorous supervised clinical training. This training in the psychology clinic of the University of Florida was housed within Shands Teaching Hospital, providing John one of the finest clinical experiences available in which he provided supervised client services beginning in his second year of study. The majority of doctoral programs do not provide this experience until the 4th or even 5th year while on internship.

In the 1980s John traveled worldwide as a tennis professional. He coached the sport, achieved high rankings as an open division player in Florida, and later wrote the top-selling "Smart Tennis How to Play and Win the Mental Game," cover endorsed by #1 player in the world Lindsay Davenport. Tennis professional Vincent Spadea credited Dr. Murray for helping him overcome the longest losing streak in history and return from nearly 300 to top 10 in the ATP Champions Race in 2003. Dr. Murray recently traveled with Spadea as his official coach in Australia, leading him in 2007 to his first victory at the Australian Open in more than eight years.

Dr. Murray is by far the most interviewed performance psychologist worldwide, with almost daily contributions to mainstream media. The following is just a small sample of where Dr. Murray has recently been interviewed: Fox News TV, ABC TV Good Morning America, MSNBC TV, USA Today, USA Weekend Magazine, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, Sports Illustrated, SI.com, ESPN The Magazine, Palm Beach Post, and Orange County Register. He has also been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows including, CNN Radio, ABC Network Radio, Bloomberg Radio, CBS National Radio, and ESPN Radio. He writes columns for Tennis Magazine, Tennis.com, and Florida Tennis.

Dr. Murray enjoys playing the piano, competitive tennis and golf, traveling, reading, writing, and public speaking. He is married to Charlotte, an accomplished professional ballet dancer, and they have a four year old daughter. His biography appears in Marquis' Who's Who in America (2006 Diamond Edition) featuring "the nation's 100,000 highest achievers," and also in Marquis' Who's Who in Science and Engineering (2006-2007 edition).