About

Gareth Timmins

Gareth is a former Royal Marines Commando, emerging behavioural/cognitive scientist, turned bestselling published author of: Becoming the 0.1%: Thirty-four Lessons from the Diary of a Royal Marines Commando Recruit and The 0.1% Academy: Master the 7 Mindsets to Maintain Peak Performance.

While undertaking the thirty-four weeks of Commando training in 2005/06, at the tender age of twenty, he documented his experiences by keeping a never-before captured diary of elite military training. Within his debut book, Gareth utilised his academic grounding to produce and integrate thirty-four unique psychological lessons that people can utilise to achieve cutting-edge, performance thinking and develop an elite mindset.

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Research

He has previously supported the University of Surrey’s Business School, sharing insights that added real value to their MSc Entrepreneurial Thinking programme. His sessions covered topics such as the conceptualisation and perception of fear, and how techniques like cognitive restructuring and controlled breathing can help emerging entrepreneurs take smarter, calculated risks.

He is also undertaking PhD research at the University of Huddersfield, exploring rapid decision-making under time pressure. His work focuses on controlling the elicitation of irrational belief structures to improve the accuracy and consistency of high-pressure decisions during elite military operations while increasing success during frontline emergency responses in high-pressure life-threatening situations.

Looking ahead, he aims to translate these findings into the business sector, creating a blueprint for senior and emerging leaders to perform more effectively under stress. His goal is to develop an innovative framework that reshapes our contemporary understandings of resilience, and responses to stress, enabling greater success in the face of overwhelming corporate pressure.

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Work

Gareth’s work sits at the intersection of cognitive performance, decision-making, and leadership under pressure. Through NOUGHT POINT ONE®, he helps leaders and organisations operate more effectively in environments defined by complexity, uncertainty, and consequence.

Through NOUGHT POINT ONE®, Gareth delivers a suite of leadership and performance programmes built around applied decision science and real-world operational demands. These include the Complex Leadership Protocol™, which develops clarity and control in high-stakes decision-making; the Endurance Framework™, designed to sustain cognitive performance and attentional capacity over time; and the Elite Culture Model™, which aligns behaviour, standards, and accountability into a culture that performs under pressure.

In parallel, the NPO Academy develops emerging leaders and teams, embedding the principles of communication, behavioural awareness, and performance consistency as pressure and responsibility increase.

Alongside structured programmes, Gareth works with organisations through executive development, immersive workshops, performance diagnostics, and advisory—helping teams move beyond theory and build systems that deliver clarity, alignment, and sustained high performance in the moments that define outcomes.

He also acts as a senior consultant to the University of Huddersfield’s Defence and Applied Sciences Institute, working with senior leaders across the Royal Marines and wider military organisations both domestically and internationally. In addition, he provides end-user insight and advisory to human sciences departments, supporting the development and application of solutions in areas such as wound management, injury mitigation, and operational performance.

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Charity

Beyond the boardroom, Gareth is also a crew member of the ROW4MND endurance campaign—an ongoing, multi-year mission to raise awareness and funding for Motor Neurone Disease. As part of this initiative, he has rowed across some of the most demanding waters in the British Isles, completing a crossing of the Irish Sea from Wales to Northern Ireland, before continuing north towards Scotland. These expeditions are not just physical challenges, but applied environments where the realities of fatigue, uncertainty, and decision-making under sustained pressure are lived in real time.