Rena F. Subotnik PhD serves as Research Associate with the Advanced Development Talent Program, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education. For 22 years Dr. Subotnik was Senior Director of the American Psychological Association’s Center for Psychology in Schools and Education where she led projects to generate public awareness, advocacy, clinical applications, and cutting-edge research ideas to enhance the achievement and performance of children and adolescents with gifts and talents in all domains. Earlier in her career she was a middle school gifted teacher, professor of educational psychology and head of secondary education at Hunter College, research coordinator of the Hunter College laboratory schools for gifted children (grades PreK- 12), and an education staff member in the office of a United States Senator where she helped develop influential federal policy in teacher education. Dr. Subotnik’s talent development Megamodel applies to domains such as science, mathematics, and music, employing high performance psychology to mentoring, teaching, and coaching students and education personnel. The model has been cited over 3000 times in articles, books, and chapters including Scientific American, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Frontiers in Psychology. She has successfully competed for federal and private foundation grants on talent development with projects that have explored the impact of selective science high schools, mentoring of science talented students, and cognition and creativity. Her expertise and research are known around the world. She has been an expert advisor to the Singapore Gifted Education Branch and the Singapore National Institute of Education, the Hungarian Talent Network, Tribal Mensa in India, the German national gifted education project, the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University, and the Arabian Gulf University.