What is neuroleadership and what makes it so awesome? By understanding our brains and the way they function, we can learn how to work with our physiology, not fight it. We’ll use neuroscience as a lens through which we can look at ourselves, our direct reports, our co-workers, and our organization to understand what motivates us, inhibits us, and how we can create environments that maximize our brains to help us perform at our best.

This workshop is designed to give you a basic understanding of neuroleadership and how it can be applied to the modern workplace to accomplish today’s most challenging tasks, such as developing effective leaders, enhancing creativity, increasing organizational trust, improving teamwork, understanding and overcoming cognitive biases, deepening employee engagement, and more.

Mindset matters. By now, you’ve likely heard of the terms fixed mindset and growth mindset. Fixed mindset looks at the world and our place within it in concrete terms. You’ll find examples of fixed mindset all over the place when you start to look for it, and for good reason. Our brains are constantly seeking to eliminate uncertainty and create short cuts to conserve mental energy. But, while fixed mindset may help us conserve mental energy, it won’t help us embrace challenges, redefine failures, enhance creativity, or become the best version of ourselves.

This workshop explores the difference between fixed mindset and growth mindset from both a personal and organizational level. We’ll also look at how neuroplasticity (our brain’s ability to grow new neural pathways) can be used to embrace a growth mindset and develop new skills to become better leaders, change the way we think about challenges, and literally rewire our brains for the better.  

Building a culture high in trust is foundational and essential to creating powerful teams and organizations that can accomplish long-term success. Neuroleadership and neuromanagement are all about using neuroscience to create practices within organizations that enable high performance and engagement. But how can leaders create the right conditions that make people want to expend their effort, energy, and creativity to help move an organization toward its objectives?

This workshop is all about understanding the science behind trust and how creating high-trust environments substantially boost organizational performance, employee engagement, retention, and well-being. We’ll explore the research behind the 8 identified factors that are the building blocks of organizational trust and learn how to translate them into organizational practices and leadership behaviors. This powerful, science-backed workshop is guaranteed to enhance cooperation, improve teamwork, and generate exceptional results.

The ability to think creatively, innovate, and pivot are essential components to both individual and organizational success. This fun workshop dives into the neuroscience of creativity to help you learn what you can do to maximize innovation both individually and at an organizational level.

You’ll learn practical tools that you can utilize to maximize your creativity, tap into your flow, and think BIG when you need it most AND how to build an organizational culture that fosters creativity and innovation among employees at all levels.

Countless books, research studies, business articles, workplace seminars, and the like have been dedicated to helping leaders and organizations manage change. Why? In a fast-paced world that is constantly changing with new technologies and emerging competitive threats, companies must constantly innovate and adapt or face the threat of extinction. Therefore, the ability to successfully navigate, implement, and execute organizational change is inarguably the most valuable skill a leader can possess. There’s just one problem…our brains REALLY don’t like change.

This powerful workshop is designed to help you understand the physiological impact of change and uncertainty on our brains. While our brains find a bit of novelty stimulating, dealing with layer upon layer of organizational change easily triggers our brains into a threat state, increasing distraction, anxiety, fear, and stress, and reducing our ability to make good decisions, manage our emotions, and perform at our best. We’ll help you understand thoughts and strategies for mitigating the negative impact of change and develop tools to enable yourself and others to perform their best during organizational change.

 Overcoming bias is one of the most challenging tasks to take on, and it is essential to building more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. The first step in working to overcome bias is recognizing that EVERY brain develops shortcuts to conserve essential energy, and these shortcuts lead our brains to be biased. Therefore, we don’t need to feel guilty about having bias, but we do need to be aware and vigilant that they exist and that they will exist largely without our awareness (implicitly).

This workshop is designed to help you understand how bias works in our brains, and what we can do to take explicit action to reduce the impact of bias in ourselves and our workplaces. By understanding different types of bias and when your brain is most vulnerable to biased thought processes and decision-making, we’ll help you develop specific plans and accountability checks to help you prevent bias from creeping in and coloring your decisions.  

Staying in control of our emotions at work can be hard. Who hasn’t had an emotional reaction or outburst at the office that they later regret? But emotions play an important role in social connections, empathy, memory formation, relationship building, and decision-making.

This workshop explores the neuroscience behind emotions to help you better understand how your emotions impact not only your behavior, but the behavior of those around you. Emotions play a huge role in your ability to perform at work and your capacity to be an effective leader. The tools you’ll learn in this workshop will help you manage your emotions constructively and increase your emotional agility so that you can stay in control of your emotions rather than allowing them to control you.

When our brains experience too much stress our brains are triggered into a threat response, leaving us less focused, less creative, less able to manage our emotions, and feeling physically ill. In fact, while stress is one of the main causes of prolonged absenteeism at work, the reduction in productivity caused by stress actually costs even more than absenteeism. The impact of chronic long-term stress can include a lower immune system, digestive issues, insomnia, anxiety, heart attacks, and can even result in damage to our brain. (Stress hormones are toxic to neurons over the long-term.)

This workshop is designed to help leaders understand the long-term impact of stress on the brain and to provide tangible, scientifically proven tactics to help you reduce your stress levels and take a proactive approach to managing stress.

The ability to communicate effectively is paramount to organizational, leadership, and individual success. Today, we have more modes and methods for communication than ever before—emails, phone calls, texts, instant messages, social media, video chat, and more. Regardless, effective communication remains one of the biggest challenges in the modern workplace. So what does neuroscience tell us about the art of effective communication?

This workshop is designed to help you understand what our brains prefer when it comes to communication and how to utilize neuroscience to enhance effective communication. You’ll learn how communication can impact stress and uncertainty, how individual perceptions impact our perception of messages, why story-telling works, the role of emotions in communication, and so much more.

Anyone involved in leadership, management, or even just working with other people knows that getting others to change their behaviors is key to creating lasting results that stick. We want to help others become better leaders, collaborate more, improve their communication style, be more flexible, engage more deeply, etc.— but inspiring others to change—and changing the way we do things ourselves—is hard! There’s no easy answer for helping people change their behaviors but using neuroscience as a lens to understand behavior change can help.

This workshop looks at the neuroscience of learning new behaviors, why our brains find it so hard, and what we need to understand about the brain to develop lasting organizational change.

Using neuroscience as a lens, we can develop additional workshop topics based on your organization’s individual needs. If you have an idea for a workshop that you don’t see listed, please contact us to ask how we can help!