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.
Episodes
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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.
Jun 16, 2023 • 49min
Juneteenth Special: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Resilience
Dr. Michaela Simpson and Janet M Stovall discuss resilience, chronic stress's impact on the brain, understanding different experiences, intergenerational trauma, mental health's importance, and DEI initiatives.
Jun 9, 2023 • 53min
Exploring Generational Diversity at Work
Dr. Michaela Simpson, Nichole Hoskins, and Ariel Roldan discuss generational diversity in the workforce, including self-identification of different generations, the connection between time freedom and remote work, perspectives on remote work, training programs, intentional inclusion, and embracing a growth mindset for generational diversity in the workplace.
Jun 2, 2023 • 55min
A New Approach to Doing More With less
Exploring strategies for improving talent and business outcomes by improving talent density, building an elite team, the importance of exceptional performers in every role, collaboration and humility, implementing a growth mindset, reducing stress levels through feedback request, exploring the optimistic view of AI, and the potential of doing more with less.
May 26, 2023 • 54min
Your Brain at Work LIVE | Building Clarity in Uncertain Times
How do you plan for the future when you're more uncertain than ever about what that future looks like? How do we keep each other striving for that finish line when we've lost sight of it in a fog of anxiety, ambiguity, and doubt?
People tend to see change as threatening. We crave certainty and tend to avoid change as much as possible. When we can't, we become focused on all the ways change puts our safety in jeopardy, which shuts down our cognitive functions and kills our performance.
In this episode of Your Brain at Work LIVE, Andrea LaBarbera (Head of Global Talent and Engagement, Zimmer Biomet) joins Dr. David Rock (NLI CEO and co-founder), and Rachel Cardero (NLI Vice President of Consulting) to discuss how Zimmer Biomet focused on their people to continue building their strategic road map, pillars, and guiding principles throughout the COVID-19 pandemic — and how we can learn to become nimble, resilient, and deliberate in the face of uncertainty today.
May 19, 2023 • 54min
Your Brain at Work LIVE | Growth Mindset and Psychological Safety in Disruptive Times
What does the future hold for your organization? And what are you doing to define that legacy?
Tumultuous times are a challenge all their own. But, in preparing for them and navigating through them, it’s important to remember that, thanks to where we’ve been, we’re more prepared to handle them than ever before.
This week on Your Brain at Work LIVE, Dr. David Rock (NLI CEO and co-founder) and Tina Drews (Salt River Project Director of Talent), discuss how, through an illuminating partnership with the NeuroLeadership Institute, Salt River Project focused on supporting the needs of their teams to develop the psychologically safe climate that equipped them even further to face crisis head-on in the present and through the future.
May 12, 2023 • 58min
Say the Right Thing: A Fireside Chat on DEI
Join author Kenji Yoshino and NLI co-founder and CEO Dr. David Rock for an illuminating discussion on effectively navigating delicate conversations around identity in the workplace inspired by Yoshino's book, Say The Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice.
Topics include common conversational pitfalls, engaging in respectful disagreement, offering authentic apologies, and better supporting people in our lives who experience bias.
