Ian Snape PhD

Ian is Director of The Coaching Space, a coaching company based in Hobart, and Frontline Mind, a global e-learning company. He is also a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University where he teaches people skills to scientists and engineers.

Ian’s niche specialty is coaching and training resilience, performance, recovery, and wellbeing to people who operate in complex high-risk situations. His clients include company directors, senior executives, managers, elite and Olympic athletes, and teams and individuals from business, frontline agencies like Special Forces, police, paramedics, emergency responders and correctional officers who work in high-risk environments or are suffering from the traumatic stress response, anxiety, and hypervigilance.

He provides clients with embodied thinking skills for decision making in challenging circumstances. He draws on extensive practical training and 25 years’ experience as a research academic, consultant, government executive, polar expedition leader, martial artist mountaineer, and coach.