2012 NeuroLeadership Summit

"Leadership and the Collective"

Join us from 15 to 17 October in New York, USA for our 7th Global NeuroLeadership Summit.  

As the momentum of the exciting new field of NeuroLeadership builds don't miss your opportunity to join the conversation with academic and corporate business presenters as they discuss the latest neuroscience and its application in an organizational context.

2012 Summit program

Here is a peak at just a few of the really big ideas that are being developed for this ground breaking event.

Rethinking Work (Saku Tuominen)
Be the first to discover the findings from a wide scale design research project happening in Europe, which has taken on the challenge of completely rethinking how knowledge work is organized.

Radical transparency: The missing driver of organizational effectiveness (Golnaz Tabibnia and Ryan Smith, Qualtrics)
Organizations operate under the belief that people's performance (and therefore bonuses) should be secret. One organization, a fast growing new tech firm called Qualtrics, is challenging this paradigm, making every bit of every employee's performance quantifiable, and available to every other employee to scrutinize. Everyone, from the CEO down.

Memes and Buzz: The neuroscience of changing minds (Matthew Lieberman)
How does persuasion really happen? What goes on when people change their minds about something? How can leaders be more effective at convincing others? Matt Lieberman, one of the most important neuroscientists today, will share the latest findings that organizational leaders should know about the biology of persuasion.

Leadership, gender and neuroscience (Dan Radecki)
Discover what neuroscience has to say about male and female leaders, about how to lead different genders, and what we know about neurological similarities and differences.

What is leadership self-awareness?
We all talk about leaders needing to be more 'self aware'. But what does this really mean? The reality is self awareness is probably a mixture of many things, including self regulation, metacognition, being goal-focused, prospective memory and other key functions. For the first time, a team will explore the real underpinning basis of self awareness, including looking at what we can really change and what we can't.

Leading across cultures: what neuroscience tells us about leading globally
Discover the latest findings about leading across cultures and the brain, including the genetic basis of some of our differences, and what leaders really need to know about culture.

Other topics include:

• Paradox of caring: how personal should leadership be? (George Kohlreiser)
  
• Thinking together (Chris Chabris)
  
• Leadership resilience (Ethan Kross)
  
• Reflection matters: the neuroscience of non-conscious processing (David Creswell)
  
• Neuroscience of organizational change (Elliot Berkman and Walter McFarland, ASTD)
  
• NeuroLeadership past present and future (Josh Davis)
  
• Articulating the NeuroLeadership field
• The reality of the new leader: virtual global and massive complexity
• Leadership messes with the mind: interviewing neuroscientists & business leaders (Ruby Wax)
• Scanning the pipeline: the neuroscience of Leadershp Transitions (Grace Chang and Erica Fox, Google)
  
• Mindfulness: Latest research on what it is, how to test for it and improve it.
• Q&A Advanced sessions (For NLI Students) 
  

Confirmed presenters

Matthew Lieberman UCLA Ruby Wax Kevin Ochsner Columbia Lila Davachi NYU Ryan Smith CEO, Qualtrics Dan Radecki NLI Ethan Kross University of Michigan David Creswell UCLA George Kohlrieser IMD Walter McFarland Chairman, ASTD Saku Tuominen Idealist Group David Amiodo NYU Chris Chabris Union College Golnaz Tabibnia Carnegie Mellon University Elliot Berkman University of Oregon Josh Davis Barnard College

Our Goal - the most brain friendly conference in the world

The NeuroLeadership Summit has spent 6 events over 5 years iterating and experimenting around the question of how to design a conference with participant goals in mind. We believe participant's main goals at conferences are ‘useful new ideas’, and ‘new human connections’. The reason for this grand experiment? Necessity. This conference is all about the brain, so we had had make the conference itself as ‘brain friendly’ as possible. It turns out that if you apply findings from neuroscience to designing a conference, everyone gets more out of it. Here are 4 basic principles of this summit:

• Ideas are like food - allow digestion time
• Social is everything - let people connect more
• Do less, but do it really well - less is more sometimes
• Work with, not against, the natural flow of energy - we have limits that need to be respected
  
  

To read full blog post on the topic of 'Rethinking how we conference' go to http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-work/201104/rethinking-how-we-conference

Who will attend?

Anyone who wants to use the latest findings from neuroscience in their work to improve individual, team and organizational performance.

Participants representing over 30 countries will include:

• CEOs and senior executives looking for insights into organizational performance
• Executive and organizational coaches
• Organization development consultants
• Learning and development professionals
• Principals and superintendents in the education field
• HR professionals
• Human performance consultants
• Trainers and facilitators
• Educators
• Academics
• Government
• Leaders and managers in any field
• Media

Why attend?

• Be at the cutting edge of research in human performance, learning directly from the leading scientists of our times
• Develop a better understanding of human functioning to improve your own performance
• Improve the effectiveness of any change or learning initiative
• Learn to engage a broader range of people in understanding themselves and others

As we are continuing to finalize the Summit program, we have extended the earlybird period. Register before May 31 and recieve 10% off.