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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Oct 23, 2023 • 54min
From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Managing Threat Response in the Workplace
Explore the connections between cognitive capacity, motivation, threat, and reward in the workplace, and how organizations can prioritize psychological safety to drive positive business outcomes. Discover strategies for managing threat responses, promoting psychological safety, and creating a supportive environment. Learn about the importance of emotional regulation and using the SCARF model to label situations and emotions.
Oct 13, 2023 • 57min
Key Insights from the 2023 NeuroLeadership Summit
On the season 10 premiere of Your Brain at Work Live, we'll dig deep into the trends, breakthroughs and scientific insights uncovered at the 2023 NeuroLeadership Summit.
Facilitated by our Director of Leadership, John Edwards, and featuring leaders from all three of our practice areas, we'll share what we learned about:
• Augmented intelligence
• The future of DEI and what it will take to get there
• The evolution of talent and performance management
• Integrated approaches leaders can take to embed upskilling, re-skilling, and super-adaptivity in their company culture strategy
Sep 5, 2023 • 39min
Special Episode: The Science Behind the NeuroLeadership Summit
The podcast discusses the history and growth of the NeuroLeadership Summit, the influence of collaboration and positive change agents, the importance of designing engaging conferences for shared learning, recalibrating in a post-pandemic era, and creating diversity at conferences.
Aug 22, 2023 • 53min
Zeitgeist-Proof Your DEI Strategy with Janet M. Stovall
The podcast discusses the importance of prioritizing DEI despite skepticism and hostility, the challenges faced by CDOs in implementing DEI strategies, the role of business in promoting DEI, assessing and evaluating DEI programs, advancing DEI efforts on multiple fronts, and prioritizing diversity and fixing systems in DEI.
Aug 16, 2023 • 50min
Future-Proof Your Leadership With Neuroscience Pt. 3: A Case Study Featuring with the Aerospace Corporation
The podcast explores future-proofing leadership and employee habits, investing in education and cross-skilling, the impact of soft skills training and AI in the future of work, building a culture of learning and growth, career progression and diversity in the aerospace industry, increasing representation and inclusion, and transforming organizations through habit and language adoption.
Aug 4, 2023 • 51min
The Challenges and Opportunities of Learning at Scale in the New World of Work
In a world where people can locate information with a few keystrokes, how has learning changed? What makes learning effective — and what pitfalls do leaders face when trying to make learning accessible and sustained?
In this episode of Your Brain at Work Live, Alyssa Abkowitz — our global head of Product and Content — interviews Dr. David Rock about the first principles we should all keep in mind as we navigate new paradigms in learning at work. Listen closely — you might just find some insights for the AGES.
Jul 18, 2023 • 48min
The Transformative Power of Internal Coaching
Explore the benefits of internal coaching and its transformative power. Learn how organizations can implement internal coaching programs for leadership development. Discover the fit of coaching in different organizations and the readiness of coaches. Explore the effectiveness of internal coaching and its impact on organizational health and growth.
Jul 7, 2023 • 56min
Future-Proof Your Leadership With Neuroscience Pt. 2: Goal Focus & Outcome Focus
The podcast discusses how leaders can balance goal focus and people focus to overcome employee apathy. It explores the use of neuroscience to achieve this balance and highlights the challenges of measuring the return on investment in people. The speakers also discuss unconscious biases in decision-making, the role of middle managers in addressing them, and the importance of social networks. Additionally, they touch upon mindfulness, virtual reality, and the historical mindset that prioritized efficiency over employee well-being.
Jun 30, 2023 • 51min
Future-Proof Your Leadership with Neuroscience Pt. I: Human-Centric Leadership
In this podcast, the first of a three-part series on Human Centric leadership, they explore the crisis of confidence in leaders impacting organizations worldwide. They discuss the talent pipeline, employee development, and the neuroscience of learning, emphasizing the need for more adaptive, innovative organizations. They also address challenges faced by leaders and employees, the importance of investing in leadership development and building trust, understanding digital technology and AI in leadership roles, and the pathway to a better future through rethinking leadership and work.
Jun 23, 2023 • 56min
The Neuroscience of Effective Organizational Change
Rachel Cardero, NeuroLeadership Institute's Senior VP of Consulting, discusses the neuroscience of effective organizational change. They explore the reasons behind failed change initiatives, the importance of behavior change, defining success, the three elements of effective change, the significance of behavior change in transformation, and taking the end user perspective.
