Elle' Nelson
Elle Nelson is a Mental Performance Coach trusted in full-time professional football environments, having built and led the first club-wide mental performance programme at Columbus Crew in MLS, working across the men’s first team and academy.
She is used to operating inside multi-disciplinary teams, partnering with technical, tactical, medical, player care, and leadership staff to enhance performance outputs systemically. Elle's unique experience enables her to understand dressing-room dynamics, staff realities, and the demands of a long season from lived experience, which allows her to connect quickly and credibly with players, coaches and wider staff alike.
Alongside her football roles, she has worked as an executive performance coach with global organisations such as Johnson & Johnson, Astellas Pharma, and others, bringing the best of high-performance corporate practice into sport.
Elle’s value to your club is her ability to collaborate respectfully with existing staff, translate cutting-edge organisational psychology and corporate performance thinking into simple, usable tools, and help leadership teams build robust mental and cultural frameworks that fit their game model and environment.
