Dr. Jonathan F. Katz is a licensed psychologist and founding partner of High Performance Associates (HPA), a specialized team of performance coaches whose mission is to enhance and maximize the performance of individuals and teams. As an HPA partner, Dr. Katz has served as the performance coach for a broad spectrum of clients in the sports, financial, and business worlds.

Since 2005, Dr. Katz has worked in the financial world as the in-house performance psychologist for a wide variety of institutions, including several prominent New York- and Connecticut-based hedge funds. Recent and ongoing work includes:

• An alternative investment management company employing a discretionary global macro trading strategy that seeks to capture investment opportunities across liquid commodity, foreign exchange, fixed income, and equity markets

• A private capital team that partners with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams to build strong businesses and create long-term value

• A world-class trading/technology firm applying cutting-edge research to global financial markets

• An alternative investment manager specializing in providing quantitative and discretionary alpha opportunities across a variety of market environments that seek low correlation to traditional investments

Dr. Katz has also spent decades as a sports psychologist, working extensively with a variety of amateur, collegiate, and professional athletes and sports teams, including the New York Rangers and the Sioux Falls Skyforce (the Miami Heat’s G-League team). He has also served as the sport psychology consultant for the University of Texas men’s and women’s tennis teams, including the men’s 2019 NCAA Championship team, and worked with NBA and NHL players, major league baseball teams, top-ranked professional tennis players, and a variety of NCAA athletes and athletic programs.

Prior to his work as a performance coach, Dr. Katz maintained a twenty-year appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. During much of that time, he also served as the Director of the Crisis Intervention Team and the Assistant Director of the Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Katz serves as a board member of The Impact Competition Foundation and volunteers as the performance coach and sports psychologist for the non-profit Cape Cod Baseball League’s Brewster Whitecaps. Throughout his career, Dr. Katz has been interviewed on local and national news and talk shows and has also appeared as a guest on a wide range of podcasts, covering both the financial and sports worlds.

Dr. Katz received his B.A. in Psychology from Connecticut College and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation in the area of sports psychology. He completed his clinical internship at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center. He was a collegiate cross-country runner and has been an avid marathon and ultramarathon runner. Dr. Katz lives on Cape Cod, MA, and continues to work with junior, collegiate, and professional athletes across a wide range of sports.