NeuroLeadership Summits Blog

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

THE 2010 NEUROLEADERSHIP SUMMIT PROGRAM IS HERE

This years theme is 'Rethinking Leadership.'

Presenters include researchers from Harvard, MIT, Columbia, NYU, Cambridge University, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame and more.

New features of the Summit include:
Better integration of neuroscience and leadership research
More leadership thought leaders
Greater practitioner focus
Free audio of breakout sessions so you don't miss a thing
New lunchtime 'Meet the scientist' sessions
Full 3 day program (for the price of 2.5 days previously)
More time for fun and informal networking

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Labels: leadership, neuroleadership, neuroscience

Friday, October 30, 2009

NeuroLeadership Summit 2009 - Day Two Update

Here's what happened on Day Two at the Summit...

Leadership Greats

Warren Bennis and Werner Erhard, two of the greats of leadership development opened day two with two very energetic and inspiring keynote addresses.

Warren spoke about stories of great

leadership and the importance of respect. Werner spoke about how language creates our world.

Listen to Warren speak about the importance of respect as leaders (4.07 min.):

Decision Making

Jonah Lehrer, a leading neuroscientist and best selling author of 'How We Decide' spoke about decision making and the cognitive struggle between the rational and other functions of the brain.

Listen to the first few minutes of his presentation here (5.

49 min.):

Creating Change

The breakout sessions after lunch focused on creating change. Art Kleiner and Cynthia Scott Ph.D. spoke about how organizational change happens. Evian Gordon Ph.D. took us through the emerging technologies for measuring and improving brain functioning at work and John Joseph and Dr Al Ringleb talked about change in schools.

Listen to Art Kleiner talk about what neuroscience brings to organizational change (2.27 min.):

Listen to Cynthia Scott talk about creating sustainability at Walmart using neuroscience (2.07 min.):

Getting Along with Others

Our final keynote of the day was with Marco Iacoboni Ph.D. a leading neuroscientist and neurologist and Professor at UCLA. Marco talked about how we know each other - social neuroscience and how the 'smart' cells in our brain allow us to understand others.

Listen to Marco talk about why knowing about social neuroscience and mirror neurons is important for leaders (0.54 min.):

Big ideas after dinner

There were two salons after dinner for those eager to learn even more. Dr Jeffrey Schwartz and Art Kleiner ran a discussion on neuroscience and spirituality and Lone Frank Ph.D. explored the influence of the brain research on our understanding of self, ethics and other big issues.

Listen to Jeffery and Art talk about neuroscience and spirituality (2.24 min.): <

To hear all the presentations at this year's Summit, pre-order the audio recordings

If you couldn't make it, but would like to hear from some of the world's thought leaders in neuroscience and leadership, then pre-order your copy of the Summit recording now for only US$195. Available December.

Labels: bennis, leadership, lehrer, neuroleadership, neuroscience, schwartz, summit

Thursday, October 29, 2009

NeuroLeadership Summit 2009 - Day One Update

Here's what happened on day one at the Summit...

Planning future directions for the Institute

The day started at 10am with around 50 people joining Institute Directors David Rock and Dr Al Ringleb to discuss the future direction of the Institute. There were lots of great

ideas about refining the mission, vision and 2 year goals of the Institute, focusing on being the bridge between scientists and practitioners for breakthroughs in brain research that will further the field.

Great pre-Summit sessions

A suprisingly large amount of people joined Dr Naomi Eisenberger, Dr Al Ringleb, Dr Dan Radecki and David Rock, to discuss doing research in the NeuroLeadership field.

The people attended had the chance to plan and get feedback on new research projects and there was lots of energy around the idea of adding to existing studies rather than starting from scratch.

Dr Matt Lieberman presented some key neuroscience principles relating to leadership in his pre-conference session, Neuroscience 101 and John Joseph, Director of Focus Education shared his inspiring program for 'taking the brain to schools'.

Opening Dinner - Developing Mindful Leaders

Dr Daniel Siegel presented our opening keynote at dinner and spoke about the importance of mindfulness as a leader. In a very entertaining presentation Dan spoke about rigidity and chaos being the two main symptoms of almost all of today's problems in the workplace, as demonstrated by a vocal performance from a bunch of very brave Summit attendees!

Dan also spoke about the importance of leaders understanding the brain and leaders being integrators.

Listen to Dan speak about why it's important for leaders and organizations to know about the brain and what 'Leaders as Integrators' is all about:

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Pre-order the audio recordings from Summit 09

If you couldn't make it to the Summit, but would like to hear from some of the world's thought leaders in neuroscience and leadership, then pre-order your copy of the Summit recording now. Available December.

Labels: eisenberger, lieberman, neuroleadership, siegel