What is the Nike Performance Council?
We've brought together leading experts in the fields of training, nutrition, recovery, mindset and sleep to create the Nike Performance Council. Together, they provide research, advice and insights for professional and everyday athletes alike. You can find their work in the Nike Training Club App and TRAINED by NTC, a podcast from Nike. Here's more information about our experts:
Cheri D. Mah | Sleep
Cheri D. Mah, MD, MS, is a clinical and translational research fellow at the University of California San Francisco Human Performance Center and UCSF School of Medicine. Over the past decade, her research has focused on the relationship between sleep and performance in elite athletes.
She'll explore the impact of sleep on cognitive and physical performance across a wide range of sports.
Derek Samuel | Recovery
Derek Samuel is a licensed physiotherapist who has designed and implemented many industry-changing programmes through his fundamentals of biomechanics. This includes his pre-NFL Scouting Combine BioMechanical Evaluation and his core stabilisation programme for elite-level athletes.
He will provide insights on how any athlete can benefit from injury prevention, maximise their efficiency of movement and perform at their best.
Jennifer Martin | Sleep
Jennifer Martin, PhD, is an associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA whose expertise resides in the relationship between sleep and health. She serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and is the president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation.
Martin will shed light on the relationship between sleep and performance in all athletes.
Megan Jones Bell | Mindset
Megan Jones Bell is the chief science officer at Headspace. Her work has focused on making mental healthcare more effective, more affordable and more accessible, while changing the culture around mental health and wellness. She is a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University and visiting scientist at the Medical University of Vienna.
She'll partner with Nike to put mental health on the same playing field as physical health.
Ryan Flaherty | Training
Ryan is Nike's senior director of performance. He has a master of science degree with a focus in biomechanics. Prior to Nike, he was the founder and president of Prolific Athletes LLC, a sports performance facility in San Diego, California, where he trained some of the world's best athletes, including Serena Williams, Russell Wilson and Marcus Mariota.
Flaherty brings an in-depth understanding of elite performance to help athletes achieve their full potential.
Shona Halson | Recovery
Shona Halson is an associate professor in the School of Behavioural and Health Sciences at the Australian Catholic University. She has a PhD in exercise physiology and more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of sleep, recovery, fatigue and travel.
Halson was selected as the director of the Australian Olympic Committee Recovery Centre for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the 2012 London Olympic Games, and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. She'll explore how sleep and recovery affect athletic performance.
Sue Falsone | Recovery
Sue Falsone is a board-certified clinical specialist in sports physiotherapy, a certified athletic trainer and a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
She has a bachelor's degree in physical therapy from Daemen College in Amherst, New York and a master's degree in human movement science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She's partnering with Nike to discuss the optimal environment for healing and performance training.