THE HIGH PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGIST
Dr Perpetua Neo
I precision-tune the mental energy of driven, impatient leaders and organisations-- using neuroscience, AI, and ancient wisdom-- so you command performance, productivity, and profitability, without burning out or working more.
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Cambridge & UCL | Simon & Schuster author
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Media in 43 languages, since 2016
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Trusted by Olympians, senior leaders, and military across six continents
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Because real excellence transcends industry, wherever you lead













Are the cards stacked in your favour
For The Long Game?
I was born with a body and brain rigged against me.
What looked like weakness– poor immunity, relentless fatigue, the endless mind-rush of neurodivergence— was mistaken as laziness. I learned to ace every exam, push through every fever, and perform even with a painful palpitating heart.
But some of us are born into the long game– wired to rewrite rules, not just survive them.
Instead of resigning, I built precision protocols to stack the deck in my favour. I metamorphosed limitations into strategic advantage. My body, once a source of shame, became my compass for sustainable high performance.
The real frontier wasn’t just about winning, but coming home to a body and mind I can trust.
Today, my protocols let me ride further– 1,238.06km biked in 2024 alone– while living with more joy, not less. I sleep like a cat, living and breathing La Dolce Vita.
If you’re known for being high-functioning-- helming teams, holding everyone together-- but sense there’s a better, easier way to win, you’re right.
A way with finesse and freedom, where you trade the grind for strategic mastery. Where accomplishment brings not just relief, but real pride.
Where you don’t have to “slow down,” abandon your responsibilities, or run away to the seaside– because now, your personal and professional worlds calibrate seamlessly, like a precision Swiss timepiece. With your own markers of accomplishment and fulfilment– purpose, love, curiosity, whatever drives you– on your terms.
Because now, your drive fuels delight. Leadership powers legacy. You don’t just play the long game; you are the long game.
You smile from the sidelines with a quiet, unshakeable knowing.
If this resonates, this is your invitation to rise. Let’s architect the rest of your life together.
The Intersection
There’s a reason true transformation is rare.
I was forged at the intersection– East meets West, science and spirituality braid, precision weaves with intuition, darkness illuminates light. Personal and professional aren’t separate boxes, but facets of a single, living architecture.
Where others hoard protocols, ticking more productivity and wellness boxes, I see what’s already within you. I live by Michelangelo’s “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” This is my craft– revealing the strategic excellence already within you (or your people), mutating challenges into powerful assets.
My approach draws from clinical psychology and neuroscience honed at Cambridge and UCL, ancient wisdom from time-tested traditions, and strategy refined in boardrooms and military strategy rooms. Operating between Singapore and London, across six continents, I translate the invisible codes of high performance– across every culture and field.
But here’s the difference. This was never about the samsara of endless optimisation.
It’s architecting your life– one that calibrates ambition with rest, leadership with love, darkness with integrity, brilliance with play. This discernment is the very bridge between sustainable high performance and actually living your life. Especially if you’re a multiple-hatting senior (or emerging) leader who refuses to shrink your world just to survive.
If you’re a leader who moves between worlds– cultures, disciplines, generations– this is your native tongue. You’re here because you feel the call to step into a realm where paradox is your superpower, mastery builds a life you love, and these give you deep pride, peace, and purpose.
Of course you’re tired. Of course your teams and organisation are exhausted.
The world has never moved this fast or demanded so much. Our brains and energy have never been this distracted and frazzled.
Maybe you move companies to IPO, win awards for culture, orchestrate global teams– yet still find yourself, and your people, running on empty. More systems, less life. More brilliance, more burnout. You’ve tried it all– apps, hacks, performance coaching, wellness initiatives, star hires. Still, the energy leaks, the edge blurs, the spark fades.
It’s not you. It’s not your people.
It’s the operating system– built for yesterday’s problems, not today’s complexity.
What if the answer isn’t more, but deeper precision calibration? Imagine leaders, teams, and organisations where mastery and energy are seamless, not separate.
This is what happens when you upgrade from tick-box hacks to true calibration– across the OS of your personal, professional, and organisational lives. Every day, your habits, systems, and decisions are compounding– for you, or against you.
In a tomorrow that will only demand more– and where brains and energies become more scattered– will you rise, or will you be left chasing your own tail?
The Game Has Changed
Has your OS?
The world sold you a lie– that complexity could be conquered with more tools, more hacks, more hours. But the real edge is invisible. It’s your mental energy architecture, the operating system running everything you do.
Command mental energy, win.
When you upgrade your operating system– your InnerOS, CareerOS, OrgOS– every habit, strategy, and relationship calibrates itself. Mastery becomes effortless. Excellence compounds, culture self-sustains.
You already have the expertise, the drive, and the track record. But your biology, your wiring, your field– those are the true multipliers that compound gains in your favour. No hack or habit replaces the invisible architecture that actually runs your life and your organisation.
With the right system, everything works. Without it, you keep chasing your own tail– pouring energy into more protocols, more routines, more “best practices,” and wondering why nothing sticks.
You don’t need another technique or someone else’s timetable. You need a new paradigm– one that precision-tunes your mental energy, compounds every habit, and calibrates your field for the long game.
When you upgrade your operating system, you stop surviving, and start defining the future.
There are two versions of you.
There are two worlds you can inhabit.
In the first, you win by willpower alone– holding everyone together, running on empty, chasing one external victory after another. Success brings relief, but it never lasts. Your energy leaks, your days blur, and each achievement costs you something vital.
In the second, you operate with unblocked precision. Your decisions land with clarity, your work and life flow as seamlessly as a Swiss timepiece. Ambition, rest, love, and leadership calibrate on your terms. Every accomplishment brings pride, not just relief. Every habit and relationship compounds in your favour.
The difference isn’t more effort, talent, or discipline. It’s your operating system.
Which world will you choose to inhabit for the next decade? The grind– or the field of mastery, freedom, and delight?
If you’re ready to architect your next era, the invitation is open.
The Architecture of Mastery
You won’t find a one-size-fits-all protocol here, or one built on my personal suffering. No need to join The 5AM Club, hit 10,000 steps, or meditate in retreats– unless that’s your thing.
My craft is seeing what others miss: decoding the invisible patterns that quietly drive everything you do, across your mind, body, organisation, culture, DNA, and spirit. Where most see complexity, I see architecture. Where most prescribe, I reveal. I’ve worked with Olympians, military leaders, C-suites, creatives, physicians, researchers, founders, and senior and emerging leaders— navigating the kinds of challenges most avoid.
My approach fuses clinical psychology and neuroscience, first honed at Cambridge and University College London, with deep studies in philosophy and spirituality. It’s grounded in real-world systems drawn from London’s NHS to global boardrooms, military strategy rooms, and high-stakes transition points. My own journey– from near-destruction at the hands of a sophisticated psychopath to strategic mastery– taught me that deep transformation demands both intellectual precision and lived wisdom.
Born in Singapore’s achievement-driven culture, travelling since two, and educated in Britain’s rigorous tradition, I move fluently between worlds, industries, and cultures. East and West, science and wisdom, personal and professional, shadow and legacy; 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 Virginia deAssis, Ramit Sethi, Russ Ruffino, and Selena Soo, and I’m kink-knowledgeable, having specialised in Sexual Health/LGBTQ/HIV at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. My multidisciplinary background spans seemingly disparate fields— from cell biology, art history, and military strategy to philosophy and spirituality– allowing me to address excellence from multiple perspectives simultaneously.
I’m trusted for my ability to hold complexity, decode chaos, and forge clarity where others see only noise, or prescribe from personal experience.
Some principles are universal. But the architecture of mastery is always bespoke— your blueprint, revealed and refined to serve your actual life, ambitions, and legacy. No templates, no generic rules– only your system, precision-tuned.
This is the architecture that underpins everything I deliver– whether I’m recalibrating a founder’s InnerOS, designing legacy-driven CareerOS, or futureproofing an organisation’s OrgOS. Whatever the scale, it’s why leaders, teams, and decision-makers trust me to deliver precision, elevation, and results that compound for years.
Transformation, isn’t about adding more. Like Michelangelo’s sculptures, it’s about uncovering the code inside you, then forging it into mastery– so you thrive on your own terms, in every field you move through.
If you’re ready to move beyond frameworks and prescriptions, and build your unique architecture– for yourself, your leadership, or your organisation — your door is wide open.
Human Excellence
In the age of AI
Your brain is your ultimate asset. From now on, those who master their biological operating system win. As automation expands, uniquely human capabilities– pattern recognition, emotional intelligence, and strategic intuition– become non-replicable advantages no algorithm can duplicate.
Yet most senior leaders operate at a fraction of their neurological capacity, often less than two hours of true strategic focus in a 12-hour day. That silent drain costs decision quality, innovation, and foresight.
When optimised, your brain becomes a competitive edge that compounds:–
- Pattern detection: Spotting shifts in markets, team dynamics, and competitive threats months before the data catches up.
- Integrated decision-making: Weaving millions of conscious and unconscious data points into confident, high-quality choices.
- Agile navigation: Moving through uncertainty with precision, creating innovation no algorithm can match.
I address both the individual and the system, because when you strengthen one, you strengthen the other. Your mental energy drives your strategic decisions. Your leadership presence shapes your culture. Your recovery patterns fuel your capacity to innovate.
True excellence emerges in the intersection, where personal mastery meets organisational evolution. In the AI era, this is not just an advantage. It’s survival.
Trusted by Leaders Who Define the Standard
Since 2011, I’ve worked with Olympians, military leaders, global CEOs, physicians, researchers, founders, and senior and emerging leaders across six continents; delivering measurable shifts in performance, clarity, and strategic foresight. My clients don’t just work smarter, they work truer to their own wiring, in ways that last. Results include:–
- Doubling focused work capacity without increasing hours.
- Leading global teams with ease after years of panic attacks.
- Cutting meetings by over 60% while scaling operations.
- Protecting multimillion-dollar assets in complex divorces.
- Winning multiple industry awards after reclaiming focus and drive.
When you optimise your biological OS, you stop managing decline and start compounding excellence.
“Our work has been deeply valuable and life-altering successful journey. I came to DrP because I was lacking awareness of what years of unhealthy anxiety was doing to my body and energy. I was a ‘high performer’ who struggled to mask my challenges and this led to a severe paralysing attack. With DrP, I learnt that anxiety is not a weakness, and instead the more I embraced it as a human being, the less I encountered it. Working with DrP is “not textbook” though she has clearly read many. She is human, relatable, and I would definitely recommend a friend.”
– Brad Casselman, Head of E-Commerce. Adidas, Germany.
“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.
“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.
Across industries and life stages, the patterns repeat.
High-functioning leaders leaking energy. Cultures fraying under pressure. Organisations stuck in complexity.
And then. . something shifts.
- From avoiding travel due to panic attacks → to leading global teams with ease.
- From rookie, burnt-out entrepreneur → to running six thriving studios.
- From anxious, overfunctioning executive → to confidently steering teams across continents.
- From disinterested founder → to winning multiple awards.
- From toxic relationship and lost will → to doubling salary, loving work, and re-entering life at senior level.
- From confusion and chaos → to swift clarity in divorce, custody, and multimillion-dollar protection.
Hours reclaimed. Energy redirected. Legacies rebuilt. Because every hour of compromised mental energy doesn’t just sap today, it compounds. It shapes your cognitive longevity. It defines your strategic positioning. It imprints the culture you leave behind.
Which story will echo yours? Where are you leaking brilliance, and how soon will you decide to reclaim it?
Your Choice
Leadership in 2025 is not leadership in 2005. The old playbooks– time hacks, wellness checklists, productivity apps– weren’t built for today’s velocity or complexity. Running on them now is like forcing modern code onto obsolete hardware: the system overheats, drains, and crashes. In front of you are two doors:–
DOOR #1: STAY THE SAME
Decision fatigue compounds. Energy leaks widen. The gap between external success and inner fulfilment grows. Six months from now, you’re running harder just to stand still.
DOOR #2: UPGRADE YOUR OS
Mental energy becomes your strategic advantage. You double your focused work capacity without adding hours. You make high-stakes decisions with natural clarity. You navigate complexity with agility and foresight. Excellence compounds, and you sleep like a cat, knowing your energy is working for you, not against you.
And over time? You don’t just keep pace. You become the standard others measure against. At this point, the only question is– which future will you choose to compound?
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