Poonam Sandhu-Mooker is a certified mental performance consultant (CMPC) and a professional member with the Canadian Sport Psychology Association (CSPA) and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). Poonam is also a Program Consultant & Facilitator with Canadian Women & Sport for multiple gender equity projects, and helps Via Sport to provide workshops for Safe Sport and for youth sports programming.

She is a former Canada Field Hockey national athlete and varsity field hockey athlete at the University of British Columbia. She is the first field hockey player in Canada to win 5 Usports National Championships, and the first Punjabi female athlete to compete on the National Team. She enjoys coaching as well, and has led the UBC field hockey team for 5 seasons as a head coach.