Mrs Toni Gaddie

A former world-ranked professional tennis player who represented South Africa, Toni Gaddie is a clinical and sports psychologist. Toni specialises in those qualities, skills and tools that create “whole champions” in all aspects of life. She is the co-founder of the Champion Academy with her sister Rikki Dworcan.

For over 20 years, Toni has been interviewing and studying many sporting world champions with a view to understanding and codifying their winning mind-sets. Her master’s degree thesis in psychology is entitled The Making of Champions: A Constructed Reality.

She has attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland twice where she workshopped and learned from a number of leaders in their respective fields, including Daniel Goldman (a pioneer of emotional intelligence), Jon Kabat-Zinn (a pioneer of mindfulness in the western world), Paul Coelho (world-renowned author of The Alchemist), Marissa Mayer (former CEO of Google and Yahoo) and Saul Perlmutter (winner of the 2011 Noble Prize for physics).

A regular contributor to Radio 702 on the subject of performance psychology, Toni consults with and presents to top national and international sportspeople, performing artists and business leaders and their organisations with a view to “growing whole champions”. Toni is married to Allon Raiz and they have two young sons.