Billy Bean

Billy is a co-founder of KBMP serving as a consultant to teams and Director of Research, playing a pivotal role in analyzing athlete assessment and practice data. Billy prioritizes promoting athlete autonomy in his work, empowering individuals to play an active role in increasing understanding of themselves and their responses to stress and anxiety impacting performance and enjoyment of sport. He enjoys helping athletes understand that challenging thoughts and emotions are human, not a problem to be fixed, and that together they can create new, adaptable ways of interacting with stress, challenges, and fear.

Billy brings a breadth of experience to his work having provided sport psychology services to athletes competing in both individual and team sports in the NCAA including golf, tennis, T&F, cross country, basketball, and baseball.

Professional Journey & Credentials

Billy earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Kinesiology at SUNY Brockport before going on to earn a master’s degree in Sport & Exercise Psychology at Georgia Southern University. During his two years there, he engaged in rigorous sport psychology training, providing individual and group services to numerous Division I teams and conducting research examining the impact of visualization on reaction time among student-athletes.

Billy went on to complete a doctoral degree in Sport Psychology at Florida State University, during which he also completed a second master’s degree in Measurement & Statistics and a certificate in College Teaching. At Florida State, he worked with various Division I teams and pursued research in the areas of biofeedback, teleconsultation, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Billy is currently an Assistant Professor at DeSales University, where he teaches courses in the areas of sport psychology, cognitive psychology, and research methods. He conducts and supervises research in the areas of technology use in sport psychology and the scholarship of teaching and learning in sport psychology.

Billy’s Research.

  • Eccles, D. W., Foster, B. J., & Bean, W. (in press). Becoming an expert requires relentless commitment: A myth. In Jenny Coady, & David McHugh (Eds.), Myths of sport psychology. Sequoia Books.

    Rose, S., Manalang, P., Fox, M., Bean, W., Devore, J. (in press). Technology in Applied Practice. In Andrew Friesen, Sebastian Brueckner, & Lauren Tashman (Eds.), Becoming a Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Professional: A Global Perspective. Routledge.

  • Bean, W., Eccles D.W. (Lecture accepted for presentation at 2026 Annual Association for Applied Sport Psychology Conference). Teleconsultation: Another Changing Face of Sport Psychology, This Time Through a Screen.

    Eccles D.W., Foster, B., Bean W. (poster accepted for presentation at 2026 Annual Association for Applied Sport Psychology Conference). How To Help Your Clients Understand Why the Idea of Relentless Commitment to Their Sport is a Dangerous One.

    Crudder, A., Bean, W., Eccles D.W. (presented 2026, March). Behind the Screen: How Sport Psychology Practitioners View Teleconsultation. Presentation at AASP NE Regional Conference, Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Springfield, MA. (Regional)

    ‍Bean, W., Kinnamon, K. (presented 2025, October). When the Evidence Runs Out: Navigating Challenges in Planned Disruption Implementation. Presentation at AASP 2025 Annual Conference, Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Montreal, Canada. (International)

    ‍Bean, W., Eccles, D.W., Eklund, R.C. (presented 2024, October). Biofeedback Use and Acceptance by Mental Performance Consultants. Presentation at AASP 2024 Annual Conference, Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. (International)

    ‍Bean, W. (presented 2024, October). “Success Breeds Success" - Uncovering Trends in Scholarly Output: A Replication Study of Publishing Patterns in Sport Psychology Journals. Poster presentation at AASP 2024 Annual Conference, Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. (International)

    Kinnamon, K., Bean, W. (presented 2024, October). Disrupting the Norm: Investigating the Use of Planned Disruptions among Elite Olympic Weightlifting Coaches. Presentation at AASP 2024 Annudal Conference, Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. (International)

    ‍Bean, W., Roehrig, A. (presented 2024, March). Lessons Learned from Teaching "College Teaching in Higher Education" and a Content Analysis of Syllabi in Sport Psychology. Poster presentation presented at Provost’s Showcase of Scholarly Teaching, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (Local)

    Bean, W., Eccles, D. W., Eklund, R. C. (presented 2024, February). Exploring Biofeedback Acceptance: A Study on Current Usage and Technology Acceptance Among Certified Mental Performance Consultants. Presentation at AASP SE Regional Conference, Association for Applied Sport Psychology, Tallahassee, FL. (Regional)

    Bean, W., Harris, B., Byrd, M., Ryan, G. (presented 2020, March). The Effect of Motivational General-Mastery Imagery on Reaction Time Performance and Heart Rate: A Proposed Study. Presentation at the California Conference on Motor Behavior, and Sport and Exercise Psychology, Online. (International)