AUTHOR

allen weaver, phd

Mental performance and wellness coach. Author of Conditioned.

Allen Weaver came to this work the way most people do: by getting it wrong first.

His first marathon ended in a medical tent. He had trained with everything he had, and it wasn't the training that failed — it was the assumption that more of it was the answer. Five years and three races later, he ran thirty minutes faster on two short runs a week and one long one. Less intensity, more intention.

That pattern turned out to describe most of the leaders he would go on to coach: capable, credentialed people answering exhaustion with more, and wondering why it was costing them their judgment.

Allen holds a PhD in Human Performance and spent 15 years inside corporate leadership development at Target, DIRECTV, and AT&T, where he launched the award-winning Equality First app and designed executive programs. His research included empirical validation of executive performance training — the studies that underlie the book.

Conditioned: How the Best Leaders Grind Less, Recover More, and Peak Longer is out with Morgan James Publishing in March 2027. It sets out the Peak System: ten dimensions of readiness across two flags, where Mental Performance is how you show up, and Wellness is how you sustain. Read each dimension honestly, then condition the one costing you the most. Not all ten at once. One, properly.

He coaches one-to-one through Peaks Within Reach, serves as Chief Coaching Officer at Bourbon Fat, and speaks to leadership teams and conferences. He lives in Palm Springs, California.