Dana Lebo, Ph.D., is a psychologist based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. For close to 30 years, she has applied her extensive background in psychologies of performance, leadership, sports, and the mind and body to help hundreds of leaders, elite and retired professional athletes, teams, creative artists and individuals in organizations to improve and enhance their performance as well as their balance in work and life. As a grandmother, Boston Marathoner and triathlete who in the past decade competed on the U.S. Triathlon Team at the Age Group World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand, Dr. Lebo has learned firsthand how to apply hypnosis to boost the performance of the older athlete!

Dr. Lebo is President of the North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis, an approved consultant and Board Member for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and founder of the Hypnotic Idea Exchange (HIE). She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University and Master’s degrees from Columbia’s Teachers College and Georgetown University’s School of Graduate Studies. She authored the book, Ace the SAT Essay: How to Master the Writing Process, published by Zeig and Tucker, and contributed to the volume, Ericksonian Therapy Now: The Master Class With Jeffrey K. Zeig.

In addition to her private practice, Dr. Lebo works as a performance coach/psychologist with the Brain and Body Health Team at the University of North Carolina, an executive coach with a leadership consulting firm, and clinical psychologist with the UNC THRIVE Team serving military veterans and first responders.