Jonathan Metzler, Ph.D., CMPC provides strategic thought leadership on systems, resources, and processes that help organizations optimize performance, enhance resilience, and sustain readiness in their leaders and teams. He focuses primarily on developing a culture of coaching to support human flourishing throughout any organizational structure.
Most recently, Dr. Metzler served as Senior Director of Human Performance for Magellan Federal, a subsidiary of Magellan Health. In this role, he collaborated with C-level executives, product and instructional designers, applied psychologists, and marketing professionals to conceptualize, develop, and launch a coaching product that serves both commercial and federal markets. Before this endeavor, he served 10 years in direct sport psychology support of Soldiers and Leaders via the Army Center for Enhanced Performance, Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness, and Army Resilience Directorate contracts. He introduced principles of selfdetermination theory and prosocial behavior that have been implemented via “performance experts” through approximately 500,000 training and coaching engagements each year across the United States Army.
He is a Past President and Fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and former Chair of the Council for Certified Mental Performance Consultant® (CMPC). He has served on the American Psychological Association’s Advocacy Coordinating Committee, Coalition for the Psychology of High
Performance, and Committee for the Advancement of General Applied Psychology. He is also Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Joint Commission on Sports Medicine and Science.
Dr. Metzler’s breadth of expertise and experience across military, sport, and corporate domains afforded him the unique opportunity to provide feedback on the Surgeon General’s Workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing framework prior to its launch in October 2022. As a CMPC, Jon has extensive experience providing direct performance psychology consultation to teams and athletes representing many different sports of various competitive levels, including intercollegiate athletes, Olympians, Paralympians, and professional athletes.
He holds three bachelor’s degrees from Concordia University–Portland, an M.A. in Sport Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in Kinesiology from The Pennsylvania State University.