| Kerry Spackman | |
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Dr Kerry Spackman image photo courtesy of Colman Getty |
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| Born | Kerry Spackman 26 June 1956 |
Kerry Spackman (born in Auckland, New Zealand on 26 June 1956) is a neuroscientist and Winner of the 2009 KEA World Class Award for Creative Thinking, the 1992 NEEDA Award for the most Significant Electronic Export and the Senior Prize for Applied Mathematics.
He has developed a career coaching athletes, business people, and many well-known personalities, working with them to pioneer the mental tools needed to succeed within their chosen fields.[1] He has been a long-term consultant to four Formula One teams as well as the New Zealand All Blacks specialising in performance optimisation[2] and he is a director of the New Zealand Government GoldMine program which develops highly specialized electronics and mathematical analysis for gold medal Olympic athletes. He is also author of the number 1 best selling book The Winner’s Bible.[3]
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Spackman was born to father Dr Dennis Spackman, a medical practitioner and his grandfather, Sir Trevor Henry was a High Court Judge in New Zealand. Spackman spent much of his childhood in Auckland. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School before training as a mathematician at the University of Waikato and Auckland. He later went on to attain a PhD in neuroscience.[4]
Early in his career, Spackman worked with a New Zealand based Physicist[5] to develop electronic equipment to measure the performance of cars. The pair then sold these programmes on to many companies including Rolls-Royce, Nissan, General Motors and Ford. During this period Spackman met the three times World Formula One Champion Sir Jackie Stewart with whom he ended up working with to develop a program to train professional test drivers.[6] Spackman continued to work with Jackie Stewart at Stewart Grand Prix and Jaguar for a number of years.
In Formula One, Spackman is recognised as making contributions in areas ranging from simulator design to driver optimisation.
In 2009 his first book The Winners Bible, was published and became an instant number 1 best seller[7]
The Winners Bible: Rewire Your Brain For Permanent Change (2009) (Greenleaf Book Group)
World-renowned neuroscientist Dr Kerry Spack-man shows readers how to use and customise the ground-breaking tools he pioneered for elite athletes, Olympic champions, and upper-echelon businesspeople to permanently rewire their brains and transform their lives. This Bible gives readers mental and emotional tools that change their natural desires and rid them of habits that limit their happiness or potential.[8]
The Ant and the Ferrari (2012) (Harper Collins)[9]
Kerry's forthcoming book "The Ant and The Ferrari" will be released by Harper Collins in April 2012.
This book lifts the lid on hidden aspects of the Universe and covers such topics as:
In television Spackman has written and presented a showcase 1 hour documentary for the Discovery Channel about his work in Formula One called "Speed Science".
The Winner’s Bible is published by The Winner’s Institute, a body set up by Spackman to provide products and services that help people, corporations, and athletic groups to integrate and incorporate the material in The Winner's Bible series of books.
Spackman currently divides his time between New Zealand and the United States and is a father and grandfather.