Garret Kramer

Garret Kramer is an author and the founder and managing partner of Inner Sports, a Parsippany, New Jersey, firm specializing in sports psychology. He is described as a "mental performance coach."

Ice hockey
Kramer graduated in 1980 from the Montclair Kimberley Academy, a secondary school in Montclair, New Jersey, where he played varsity ice hockey from 1977 to 1980. In the latter year Kramer was the leading scorer in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. In 2008, he returned to Montclair Kimberley to succeed Michael Good as head coach of the team.

He earned a bachelor's degree in 1984 from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he played ice hockey, competing in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. In the last year of his schooling (1984), he also coached the junior varsity team at Hamilton.

Vocation
In 1995, Kramer founded an organization he called Inner Sports, which mentors "athletes, coaches, parents, and organizations, on the states of mind that lead to success." Kramer "often conducts seminars about his revolutionary 'inside-out' approach to performance excellence."

Of him, Forbes magazine has written: "His revolutionary approach to performance has transformed the careers of professional athletes and coaches, Olympians, and collegiate players across a multitude of sports."

He has appeared on radio WFAN and WOR in New York, ESPN and television FOX and CTV. In an interview with the Christian Science Monitor about the challenges facing professional football clubs in their fans' use of the Internet—such as Fanvision—Kramer responded that:

They are stepping on the gas pedals when their tires are in the mud. When you start throwing in all these bells and whistles you just water down the experience. You are trying to trick the spectator into believing something more is going on. The more you do that the worse it gets.

Authorship
Kramer is the author of Stillpower: Excellence With Ease in Sports and Life (ISBN 978-1582703886)), which "argues that getting into an appropriate mental state is more important [in sports and athletics] than having a command of the skills and behaviors needed."

All-star hockey player Zach Parise wrote the foreword to Kramer's book and told Sports Illustrated in 2010 that he "still routinely" talks to him. Kramer’s second book, The Path of No Resistance: Why Overcoming is Simpler than You Think, is due out early in 2014.

Personal
Kramer lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.