Your Brain at Work
Neuroleadership Institute
In organizations around the world, leaders are facing a deluge of urgent issues: a crisis in employee engagement, the need to make workforces more diverse, and the challenge of making workplaces feel human in an era of increasing dependence on technology and remote communication.
At the NeuroLeadership Institute, we believe brain science can help provide solutions. Join us on Your Brain At Work, the official podcast of the NeuroLeadership Institute — where top researchers and thought leaders share breakthroughs in brain science and industry leaders reveal the strategies behind their success.
By helping them understand how the brain works, we equip leaders with the tools to transform their organizations — building new habits and changing how people work, communicate, and make decisions. Combining research and practice, brain science and business leadership, Your Brain at Work explores how insights from the lab can provide solutions that work across industries and at any scale.
Season 1 guests include broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien; Dean Carter, Director of Human Resources, Finance, Legal, Shared Services at Patagonia; Deb Bubb, Vice President of Learning and Inclusion at IBM; and FD Wilder, Senior Vice President of Go-To-Market Strategy and Innovation at Procter & Gamble.
Your Brain At Work. Helping make organizations more human.
At the NeuroLeadership Institute, we believe brain science can help provide solutions. Join us on Your Brain At Work, the official podcast of the NeuroLeadership Institute — where top researchers and thought leaders share breakthroughs in brain science and industry leaders reveal the strategies behind their success.
By helping them understand how the brain works, we equip leaders with the tools to transform their organizations — building new habits and changing how people work, communicate, and make decisions. Combining research and practice, brain science and business leadership, Your Brain at Work explores how insights from the lab can provide solutions that work across industries and at any scale.
Season 1 guests include broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien; Dean Carter, Director of Human Resources, Finance, Legal, Shared Services at Patagonia; Deb Bubb, Vice President of Learning and Inclusion at IBM; and FD Wilder, Senior Vice President of Go-To-Market Strategy and Innovation at Procter & Gamble.
Your Brain At Work. Helping make organizations more human.
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Jan 7, 2026 • 57min
Performance management in an AI era
David Rock, co-founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and researcher applying brain science to leadership. He explains why performance assessments trigger threat and how to reframe reviews with growth, safety, and accountability. He lays out the six essential performance conversations, goal-setting that sticks, making feedback less threatening, and practical AI uses to amplify coaching and feedback.
Jan 7, 2026 • 52min
Help your organization adapt faster with a Growth Mindset
Jan 7, 2026 • 56min
Leadership Reimagined: The Science of designing and delivering transformational leadership development
Niles, an AI leadership coach from the NeuroLeadership Institute that offers shadow coaching and real-time feedback. Conversation covers how neuroscience boosts leadership, AI-driven pattern recognition and personalized insight, scalable social learning designs, measuring habit change across organizations, and practical shadow coaching use cases and privacy considerations.
Jan 7, 2026 • 56min
The Habits of AI Fluency
Explores how relying on AI could reshape human thinking and the trade-offs of outsourcing mental work. Looks at a spectrum of AI users in organizations and the resistance leaders face. Highlights three habits—humility, cognitive flexibility and vigilance—for becoming fluent with AI. Demonstrations show AI role-play, feedback coaching and practical listening-coach uses.
Jan 7, 2026 • 54min
A 3 year roadmap for how AI can transform talent and learning
David Rock, co-founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and originator of 'neuroleadership', discusses how AI can transform talent and learning over a three-year roadmap. He covers early signals from generative AI, the shift from training to AI-enabled coaching, attention density and social learning, personalization of growth-mindset practice, and practical rollout phases and safeguards.
Jan 7, 2026 • 60min
AI and the near future of talent management
Brian Kropp, HR and talent research leader who advised CEOs and CHROs on AI adoption. He warns of rapid disruption to managers and talent processes. He explains how AI will flood recruiting with polished applications. He explores AI-driven hiring simulations, performance tools, transparency tradeoffs, and shifting manager roles into insight interpreters and AI arbitrators.
Jan 7, 2026 • 52min
Designing for insight: A brain-based approach for unforgettable events
They explore why in-person gatherings are returning and how our biology shapes attention. They warn against overloaded agendas and argue for coherent themes to help brains find patterns. They describe ‘digestion’ breaks, optimal group sizes, and timing to boost memory and insight. They also discuss virtual tactics, neural synchrony research, and an AI assistant designed to support event learning.
Jan 7, 2026 • 57min
Trends in Leadership Development: Reimagining how leaders are developed
Jan 7, 2026 • 58min
Does AI signal the end to executive coaching?
David Rock, Co-founder and CEO of the NeuroLeadership Institute and a pioneer in neuroleadership, discusses the evolving landscape of executive coaching in the age of AI. He argues that AI will not eliminate coaching but will enhance it, providing greater access and amplifying demand. David redefines coaching as a partnership that fosters smarter leaders. He shares insights on integrating AI into coaching practices, addressing biases, and employing AI for effective feedback and emotional awareness, ultimately portraying AI as a powerful ally to human coaches.
Jan 7, 2026 • 59min
