About Jack Groppel

Jack Groppel, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority and pioneer in the science of human performance, and an expert in fitness and nutrition. Groppel is an Adjunct Professor of Management at the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Groppel authored The Corporate Athlete book on achieving the pinnacle of corporate performance and co-authored The Corporate Athlete Advantage. He developed the Corporate Athlete® concept for his training program while serving as an associate professor of kinesiology and bioengineering at the University of Illinois helping both business executives and athletes increase performance levels. In 1992, he combined his program with Jim Loehr, Ed.D., to form the Human Performance Institute, formerly LGE Performance Systems, Inc.

A Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine, Groppel is also a Board certified nutritionist in the American College of Nutrition and a former Research Associate to the U.S. Olympic Training Center. He currently serves as Vice President on the National Board of Directors of the United States Professional Tennis Association. Groppel served as the Chairman of the National Sport Science Committee of the United States Tennis Association for 16 years.