About Mind Matters
Two founders, one conviction: top performance and wellbeing are not at odds.
Mind Matters is the training, development and consulting company Nadine and Paul Sinclair built around that conviction. We work with three groups of people: early-stage researchers and the institutions that fund their training, high-achieving professionals seeking one-to-one work that goes deeper than conventional coaching, and, through the Personal Resilience Indicator, the coaches and organisations who measure resilience with the instrument we created.
Our training programmes have reached over 1,500 researchers from more than 30 institutions, including Max Planck institutes, CERN and Helmholtz Munich, and every long format is measured at the start and the end. Alongside the research world, corporate clients bring the same trainings and diagnostics to their teams: McKinsey among them, and top consulting firms, private equity and law firms we describe rather than name, because the confidentiality we promise individuals applies to organisations too. Everything we do is grounded in neuroscience and psychology, and in lived experience. We have both learned, in our own careers, that working ever harder rarely closes the gap, and that the next achievement brings only fleeting satisfaction when something underneath is unresolved. Lasting change comes from understanding how your mind actually works, and training it deliberately. That is the work we do.
MEET NADINE
Nadine advises corporate and academic leaders on strategy, performance and resilience. A scientist by training, she completed her doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry before moving into consulting, and brings 30,000+ hours of hands-on project management experience, built across 18 years as a strategy consultant, at McKinsey and as an independent consultant. She is the author of On Track, the Amazon bestselling guide to leading research projects with clarity and confidence, and co-creator of the Personal Resilience Indicator: she designed the instrument and led its validation on 803 working professionals. She created Fast Forward, the seven-week project management and productivity training, and leads the researcher training track from single workshops to the flagship formats. Her work applies the latest insights from neuroscience and behavioural economics to her clients' toughest challenges, from boardrooms to research labs.
MEET PAUL
Paul works one-to-one with high achievers who want to understand and change the patterns beneath their success, and has taken more than 100 researchers through that work individually. He is a certified Compassionate Inquiry practitioner, one of a small group personally trained and certified by Dr Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur over two and a half years, holds a certification in psychedelic-assisted therapy through Vital, is a certified breathwork practitioner, and is co-creator of the Personal Resilience Indicator. Through Mind Matters he has delivered resilience training to over 500 researchers from more than 30 institutions.
The roots of his work are not theoretical. They run through a career-ending injury at the Chelsea Football Academy, service as a Royal Navy nuclear propulsion engineer, lighting design for artists including Jamiroquai and Eric Clapton, and around thirty years of addiction, alongside PTSD and severe childhood trauma. That lived experience is not an embellishment to his work; it is the ground he stands on.
HOW WE THINK
The articles are where we work in public: productivity, project management, resilience, and the research behind all three.