THE HIGH PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGIST
Dr Perpetua Neo
Strategic excellence isn't created - it's uncovered. Transform your brain into competitive advantage, in the age of AI.
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Cambridge + UCL education, Simon & Schuster author
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Media expert across 43 languages since 2016
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Trusted by senior leaders, Olympians and military across six continents













Are the cards stacked in your favour
For The Long Game?
I was born with a brain and body rigged against me. For 37 years, I mistook poor immunity, weak constitution, and neurodivergence for laziness, pushing through high fevers and such to ace exams and interviews. Today I know it’s neurocomplexity.
Yet, rather than accepting these limitations, I always rigged the game and stacked the cards in my favour.
I developed precision protocols that transformed these patterns into strategic advantages– sustainable high performance while maintaining my love for deep sleep and La Dolce Vita. The final frontier? That girl who thought she was weak-willed as she couldn’t push through a painful heart to exercise, is no more. In 2024, I biked 1238.06km; the first two months of 2025, I biked half of that.
Optimising effectiveness and joy, rather than sacrificing either, is how I choose to live.
We are living longer and longer, going through the motions and burning out many times is no way to live. Whatever you desire in terms of ambitions, achievements, and also having a life– let’s design that together.
The Intersection
East Meets West. Clinical Precision Meets Strategic Wisdom.
At the convergence of opposites, transformation emerges.
I draw from clinical psychology and neuroscience from Cambridge and UCL, ancient wisdom from time-tested traditions, and strategic frameworks from corporate boardrooms and military excellence, to create solutions. Operating between Singapore and London, across six continents, I translate across diverse cultural contexts.
This intersection is how I guide top performers across industries especially in disruptive times– not through adding new systems, but through revealing the strategic excellence that already exists within you or your people, mutating challenges into powerful assets. This is the very bridge between sustainable high performance and actually living your life. Especially if you’re a double-hatting senior (or emerging) leader.
Do you
- Find yourself achieving every external metric of success while feeling increasingly empty inside?
- Manage just 1-2 hours of focused work despite 12-hour days, racing against time like your own worst enemy?
- Find yourself with more complexity, mental chatter, and less energy despite trying meditation, productivity systems, and wellness protocols?
The Real Problem.
Leadership in 2025 means you don't need another app or more information. You need to optimise the brain.
You have technical expertise and dedication. You lack a system for transforming mental energy into strategic advantage– one that works with your biology, not against it. A system that upgrades habits and culture, integrating effortlessly with your existing excellence.
With this, everything works. Without it, nothing works or lasts.
All the decision fatigue, the mental chatter, the diminishing returns on longer hours – none of that is your fault. You just didn’t have the right system. Now you will.
Let's address three critical mistakes most high performers make:
- Prioritising time management: Schedules and productivity hacks are Y2K. Mental energy optimisation expands your biological capacity for excellence. The best leaders know that strategic advantage comes from energy mastery.
- Collecting protocols instead of creating systems: The wellness industry has us chasing the next wellness biohack trick or productivity app– complexity without sustainable integration. You need a personalised #UserManual.
- Separating performance from wellbeing: They’re not competing priorities, but inseparable element. The best forward-thinking leaders understand that sustainable excellence requires both– not in balance, but in integration.
There are two versions of you.
The first operates at 25% capacity - achieving external success through sheer willpower whilst battling invisible mental resistance.
The second, accesses your full strategic potential– making high-stakes decisions with natural clarity, navigating complexity with intuitive precision, and maintaining peak performance without sacrificing wellbeing. The difference isn’t knowledge, talent, or discipline. It’s having the right system for transforming invisible patterns of strengths and challenges, into strategic advantage.
My approach stands on three core principles:
- Excellence already exists within your invisible patterns – it simply needs strategic uncovering.
- Sustainable transformation requires precision architecture, not generic protocols.
- True advantage emerges at the intersection of scientific rigour and timeless wisdom.
Instead of adding more, we reveal what already exists within you. We create freedom through discipline, simplicity through sophistication, and power through precision.
Your Transformation Architect
I see the invisible patterns others miss. My neurodivergent brain– once a liability– became my greatest asset, seeing invisible connections and possibilities. As a clinical psychologist educated at Cambridge and UCL, I specialised in navigating complexity that others avoid– from dark personality dynamics to the intricate architecture of high-performing minds.
My methodology was forged through transformation. Emerging from a relationship with a sophisticated psychopath, the journey from near-destruction to strategic mastery taught me that deep transformation demands integrating intellectual understanding and lived wisdom.
What began as a coach to ambitious students, and then a psychologist in London’s National Health Service, evolved to working with elite performers across six continents. From Olympians to military leaders, from global CEOs to individuals navigating critical transitions-– I refined an approach that transforms invisible patterns into strategic advantage through clinical precision and practical wisdom.
Born in Singapore’s achievement-driven culture, traveling since 2, and educated in Britain’s rigorous academic tradition, I bridge different worlds and contexts fluently, enhanced by some linguistic versatility across seven languages. After a decade in the UK, I now split my time between Singapore and London. I’ve studied under business mentors including Ramit Sethi, Russ Ruffino and Selena Soo; and am kink-knowledgable, specialising in Sexual Health/LGBTQ/HIV at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. Combining these with a multidisciplinary background of seemingly-disparate fields-– from cell biology, art history, spirituality, military strategy to philosophy-– helps me address excellence from multiple perspectives simultaneously.
Since establishing my global practice in 2016, I’ve guided hundreds who demand measurable transformation without unnecessary complexity. They want sustainable excellence that works with their unique signature, not against them.
Because transformation isn’t created, it’s uncovered. Inspired by Michelangelo’s “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free”, I see the strategic excellence within your invisible patterns of strengths and challenges, and forge them to mastery.
Human Excellence
In the age of AI
Your brain is your ultimate asset. In the age of AI, those who master their biological OS win. With automation, uniquely human capabilities are exponentially valuable. Pattern recognition, emotional intelligence, and strategic intuition are non-replicable advantages no algorithm can duplicate.
Yet most senior leaders operate at 25% of their neurological capacity – averaging one hour of focused strategic work daily despite 12-hour workdays. That costs you decision quality, innovation, and strategic foresight.
When optimised, your brain:–
- Detects patterns months before data can confirm, spotting opportunities in market shifts, team dynamics, and strategic threats that exist between data points.
- Integrates millions of data points beyond conscious awareness for quality decisions.
- Navigates uncertainty with precision and agility, creating innovation no algorithm can match.
I address both individual and systemic patterns to architect excellence, because when you strengthen one, you strengthen both.
Your mental energy impacts strategic decisions; your leadership presence shapes team culture; your recovery patterns influence innovation capacity. True excellence emerges at these intersection– – where personal mastery meets organisational evolution.
“I’ve always been very stressed out in the past, done some coaching, felt much better, and then returned to the baseline. This time, I have set up systems to run on their own and my teams have stepped up, despite the gaps and chaos left by COVID, The Great Resignation and global recession. I work across different timezones easily, get along with a boss in a different continent I had communication difficulties with, and lead better. I have a set time for work, am finally glad to outsource, have cut meetings by more than 60%, and regained time by building templates. More importantly, I learnt how I have always cleaned up messes that aren’t mine, and got past the traumas of an old job where I was put into an impossible situation. My brain is clear, and I go home energised. I am evolving as a person past the limits of my ADHD brain to thrive in chaos and stability. I have time, structure and I eat better now. Thank you.”
– Mr RR, Director, Education. London.
I address both individual and systemic patterns to architect excellence, because when you strengthen one, you strengthen both.
Your mental energy impacts strategic decisions; your leadership presence shapes team culture; your recovery patterns influence innovation capacity. True excellence emerges at these intersection– – where personal mastery meets organisational evolution.
“As both an executive coach and trained therapist, I have sought the help of various professionals over the years to continue on my own path of personal development and growth. Too often, I had found that after a few sessions, I was leading the therapist on my journey, rather the therapist guiding me. It’s difficult for high performing trained professionals like me to find a psychologist and coach that can liberate us and truly be led versus lead. DrP’s ability to set a fast pace to help me both personally and professionally understand myself, uncover insights, resolve trauma, and shift stuck patterns, was incredible. I got more benefits in 8 meetings than I had spending a couple of years with other psychologists.”
– Christine Miles, CEO, Founder & Author. EQuipt, USA.
Every hour of compromised mental energy compounds invisibly. When leaders operate below capacity, present performance and future potential suffer. This affects not just quarterly results, stress levels and personal effectiveness. You compromise strategic positioning, cognitive longevity and team culture.
The decision you make isn’t if you can afford optimisation, but if you can sustain the compounding costs of suboptimal performance.
SOME CLIENT TRANSFORMATION STORIES:
- “From avoiding travel due to panic attacks, to leading global teams”
- “Reclaimed 2+ hours of focused work daily while scaling operations.”
- “From rookie burnt-out entrepreneur to running six fitness studios”.
- “From confused to a successful swift divorce from a narcissist, with custody of my kids and protected multimillion dollars of assets across multiple jurisdictions”.
- “From disinterested in my business, to winning multiple awards.”
- “From being trapped in a toxic relationship, to doubling my salary and loving my work again.”
- “From overfunctioning and anxious about difficult characters to easily leading teams across time zones.”
- “Reclaimed my will to live in a toxic marriage, and re-entered the job market at senior level after many years.”
Your Choice.
Leadership in 2025 demands a fundamentally different approach from 2015 or 2005. Collecting protocols, managing time, and separating performance from wellbeing costs you diminishing returns, energy leaks, and growing complexity.
Or you can transform mental energy into your strategic advantage – doubling focused work capacity, enhancing decision quality, and creating sustainable excellence that grows with you.
Every hour spent with compromised mental energy compounds into long-term consequences for your cognitive longevity.
Six months from continuing as you are:
Increasing decision fatigue affecting critical strategic choices. Growing energy leaks draining capacity for excellence. Widening gap between external success and internal fulfillment.
Six months from transformation:
Double your focused work capacity without working more hours. Make high-stakes decisions with natural confidence and precision. Navigate complexity with strategic clarity that creates competitive advantage. Sleep like a cat, knowing your mental energy is your greatest asset.
For serious, accountable individuals
Ready To Architect Strategic Excellence.
If that’s you, I invite you to take the next step.

"The biggest pain is over."
Dr BT. Double Board Certified Physician (USA).
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Andrew Barnard. Chair UK Treaty For Global Re Specialty, Aon (London).
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