He is a Certified Consultant by the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology and a member of the United States Olympic Committee's Sport Psychology Registry. Dr. Conroy's expertise centers around achievement motivation and interpersonal processes in sport (particularly youth sport). His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In 2002, Dr. Conroy received the Prince de Merode Prize for Behavioral Research from the International Olympic Committee for his research on the interpersonal origins of self-talk.