Professor Matej Tušak, Ph.D.
Lecture 1: How to Motivate Employees to Make Lifestyle Changes
Matej Tušak is a sports psychologist and a professor of Psychology and Sports psychology, at the Faculty of Sports as well as the Faculty of Arts. He studied Psychology at Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts, which he successfully completed in 1992 with a diploma titled Aggression in professional sports, for which he received Prešeren's Student Award. He continued to work in the field of Sport psychology and completed his doctorate in 1997 with the theme: Development of a motivational system in sports. He lectures Psychology, Sports psychology and Psychology of work and sport recreation, at the Faculty of Sports. In recent years, he lectures at postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Sports, at the undergraduate and postgraduate studies of the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Arts and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana.
In addition to teaching, he is active at the Institute for Sports in the process of psychological preparation of top Slovenian athletes. In the last 15 years, he was a psychologist of bowling, kayaking, jumping, sailing, skiing, tennis, judo, dance, etc. representative teams and psychologist of many other famous Slovenian athletes with medals from World Championships and Olympic Games. He was actively involved, as a sport psychologist, in a number of European Championships and World Championships and the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Nagano, Athens, Vancouver and London. He combines his theoretical knowledge with practical experience and expands it in over 250 scientific articles, books and other publications.
Prof. Tušak was also President of the Section of Sport Psychology at the Association of Psychologists of Slovenia and a member of the Expert Council for Sports in the Government of Republic of Slovenia. He is a member of Sport Psychology Council, a member for top sports in the Olympic Committee of Slovenia, President of the Expert Council at SUSA (University Sports Association), Chairman of the Expert Council for JUDO, member of expert panels in different sports, head of the Psycho-diagnostic laboratory at the Institute of Sports and head of the Department for Sport Psychology.
In addition to working with athletes and their mental preparation, he is involved with stress and explores effects of stress on the psychic level. Recently, he does a lot of research in Slovenian Armed Forces and advises companies in the field of stress and motivation.