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Neurophysiologist & brain performance coach

Louisa Nicola

Unlock peak cognitive performance with Louisa Nicola, neurophysiologist and high-performance coach. Louisa works with elite athletes, executives, and organizations to optimize brain health, decision-making, and resilience, backed by EEG and clinical neuroscience.

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Louisa Nicola

Louisa Nicola

New York City, United States

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$26k–50k

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Louisa Nicola's biography

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  • Founder and head performance advisor at Neuro Athletics
  • MMed (Clinical Neurophysiology), University of Sydney
  • Brain coach to NBA, MLB, NFL stars and Wall Street executives
Louisa Nicola is a clinical neurophysiologist, human performance coach, and founder of Neuro Athletics, a consulting firm that works with elite performers across professional sports and finance to optimize brain health and cognitive output. Louisa completed her Master of Medicine in Clinical Neurophysiology in Australia and is currently a PhD candidate. She began her career as a clinical neurophysiologist in the operating room before pivoting to performance consulting, where she now applies the same diagnostic rigor to some of the world's most demanding performers. Her client roster spans NBA, MLB, and NFL athletes, as well as senior executives and portfolio managers at leading Wall Street hedge funds. She also serves on the boards of Momentous, Hone Health, Tonal, and Klora. At Neuro Athletics, Louisa uses EEG scans, laboratory testing, and cognitive assessments to build individualized performance programs grounded in peer-reviewed science. Her focus is the direct relationship between brain health and output, translating what the research says about sleep, exercise, and nutrition into protocols that organizations can put into practice immediately. Audiences learn to apply the same neuroscience used by elite athletes to sharpen decision-making and protect cognitive capacity under sustained pressure. Louisa also hosts The Neuro Experience Podcast, a globally ranked show featuring leading neuroscientists, physicians, and researchers. Her newsletter reaches over 69,000 subscribers. Book Louisa to equip your leaders and teams with the brain science behind sustained high performance.

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Topics, sessions and talks

The Cognitive Edge: High-Performance Brain Training
Louisa Nicola has spent years inside the brains of elite athletes and Wall Street's top performers, and the data tells a consistent story: cognitive capacity is trainable. This session breaks down the neuroscience behind how the highest performers protect their decision-making, sharpen focus, and extend mental output over time. Drawing on EEG data and clinical research, Louisa delivers practical, evidence-based protocols for sleep, exercise, and nutrition that directly translate to sharper thinking and more durable performance.
Neuroplasticity As A Leadership Strategy
How a team thinks determines how it performs — and neuroscience shows that thinking patterns are far more malleable than most leaders assume. Louisa Nicola explores how the brain rewires itself in response to environment, habit, and challenge, and what that means for how organizations build adaptive, high-performing teams. Leaders leave with a clearer understanding of how to design conditions that support cognitive flexibility, faster learning, and resilience under pressure.
The AI Brain: How Artificial Intelligence Reshapes Us
Artificial intelligence is not just changing the tools we use — it is reshaping the cognitive habits we build. Louisa Nicola examines what happens to human memory, attention, and decision-making when AI handles more of our thinking load, drawing on the latest neuroscience research to map both the risks and the opportunities. This session gives audiences a framework for working alongside AI without ceding the cognitive functions that drive real performance.

Why we recommend booking Louisa

A practicing neurophysiologist with a client base spanning professional sports and global finance, Louisa combines clinical rigor with hands-on performance coaching. That combination means her frameworks carry real-world weight for any audience operating under pressure and looking for evidence-based approaches to sustained output.

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Email hello@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Louisa's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.

Louisa Nicola structures sessions around EEG data and clinical research gathered from work with elite athletes and Wall Street executives, translating peer-reviewed findings on sleep, exercise, and nutrition into protocols that organisations can apply directly to decision-making and cognitive output.

What is Louisa Nicola's speaking style like?
Louisa Nicola structures sessions around EEG data and clinical research gathered from work with elite athletes and Wall Street executives, translating peer-reviewed findings on sleep, exercise, and nutrition into protocols that organisations can apply directly to decision-making and cognitive output.

Louisa Nicola structures sessions around EEG data and clinical research gathered from work with elite athletes and Wall Street executives, translating peer-reviewed findings on sleep, exercise, and nutrition into protocols that organisations can apply directly to decision-making and cognitive output.

What topics does Louisa Nicola specialise in?
Louisa Nicola's sessions address cognitive performance training, neuroplasticity as an organisational leadership strategy, and the effects of artificial intelligence on human memory, attention, and decision-making. She is a clinical neurophysiologist and founder of Neuro Athletics, whose client roster includes NBA, MLB, and NFL athletes alongside senior executives and portfolio managers at Wall Street hedge funds.

Louisa Nicola's sessions address cognitive performance training, neuroplasticity as an organisational leadership strategy, and the effects of artificial intelligence on human memory, attention, and decision-making. She is a clinical neurophysiologist and founder of Neuro Athletics, whose client roster includes NBA, MLB, and NFL athletes alongside senior executives and portfolio managers at Wall Street hedge funds.

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