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Gareth Timmins is a former Royal Marines Commando, emerging behavioural/cognitive scientist, turned bestselling published author of: Becoming the 0.1%: Thirty-four Lessons from the Diary of a Royal Marines Commando Recruit and The 0.1% Academy: Master the 7 Mindsets to Maintain Peak Performance.
While undertaking the thirty-four weeks of Commando training in 2005/06, at the tender age of twenty, he documented his experiences by keeping a never-before captured diary of elite military training. Within his debut book, Gareth Timmin utilised his academic grounding to produce and integrate thirty-four unique psychological lessons that people can utilise to achieve cutting-edge, performance thinking and develop an elite mindset.
He has previously supported the University of Surrey’s Business School, sharing insights that added real value to their MSc Entrepreneurial Thinking programme. His sessions covered topics such as the conceptualisation and perception of fear, and how techniques like cognitive restructuring and controlled breathing can help emerging entrepreneurs take smarter, calculated risks.
He is also undertaking PhD research at the University of Huddersfield, exploring rapid decision-making under time pressure. His work focuses on controlling the elicitation of irrational belief structures to improve the accuracy and consistency of high-pressure decisions during elite military operations while increasing success during frontline emergency responses in high-pressure life-threatening situations.
Looking ahead, he aims to translate these findings into the business sector, creating a blueprint for senior and emerging leaders to perform more effectively under stress. His goal is to develop an innovative framework that reshapes our contemporary understandings of resilience, and responses to stress, enabling greater success in the face of overwhelming corporate pressure.
His expertise in mindset, cognitive performance, and mitigating burnout provides the foundation for immersive courses that bridge the gap between the corporate world and the high-performing athlete. Working with world-class speakers and contributors, Gareth delivers programmes that inspire trust, accountability, and human optimisation, equipping professionals and organisations to achieve sustainable excellence.
Through The Elite Edge Academy®, Gareth provides structured programmes and coaching designed to help individuals strengthen resilience, sharpen decision-making, and unlock peak performance. In parallel, the Leaders Think Tank® brings together senior executives and entrepreneurs in a collaborative environment, creating space for strategic thinking, problem-solving, and the pursuit of transformative leadership.
Gareth shares his experience of being attacked near the Somali Basin, exploring human reactions to extreme pressure. He uncovers our psychological hardwiring and highlights high-performance behaviours that can enhance corporate team dynamics.
Gareth shares insights and psychological foundations on embracing sudden adversity, turning initial disappointment into opportunities, and demonstrates how to connect the ‘psychological bridges’ that link the transfer of high-performing behaviours.
An individual and collective reframing process that helps the audience see setbacks as stepping stones and re-conceptualise their comfort zones.
Gareth shares his unique experiences and insights amassed from a lifetime in elite military organisations and working in elite sport to demonstrate how to apply and weaponise the 1% behaviours.
Challenge views on mental resilience, gain a fresh perspective, and learn actionable strategies for maintaining performance by exposing a fresh approach to ‘Cognitive Endurance’.
Gareth explores the roles of ‘The Controller’ and ‘The Dismisser’ in decision-making and problem-solving, highlighting their impact on long-term success.
Gareth delves into the powerful dynamics that unite individuals, cultivating teamwork, collaboration and corporate/business alignment for long-term success.
Explore what ingredients make healthy cultural dynamics and what roles Architects and Assassins play in the formations of successful teams.
Unlock leadership and teamwork principles from Gareth’s military, sporting, and academic background, demonstrating how to cultivate trust, accountability, and self-confidence for success in corporate settings.
Gareth has helped shift the mindset of our leadership team, by really getting under the skin of why groups and individuals react to pressure in certain ways. As a result, the managers have already adopted a new narrative on how they can work together as an elite team and the power of embracing acceptance.
Gareth’s delivery was absolutely world-class. He seamlessly motivated, educated and inspired our clients throughout. Everything he delivered was made relatable through anecdotes, and he provided real-world methods and applications for our coaches to utilise. His impact was fundamental and he was an absolute pleasure to work with.
