Brain Insights Journal

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2024

OUTSMART YOUR BRAIN – Choose How You Want to Feel & Act

MANIFESTING YOUR INTENTIONS – Activating Your Brain Networks

THE WISE ADVOCATE – A Key Leadership Role

BREAK THE HABIT OF PESSIMISM – Learn to be Optimistic

WHY AREN’T WE HAPPY FOR VERY LONG? – Understanding Dopamine

WHY WE BEHAVE AS WE DO – The Biology of Humans

THE ULTIMATE COACH – Essential Coaching Questions

2023

CHANGE YOUR QUESTIONS – Change Your Life

OUR STRUGGLES WITH TIME MANAGEMENT – Why We Get it All Wrong

ANXIETY – YOUR FRIEND OR ENEMY?

WHY DO WE KEEP FALLING FOR ILLUSIONS – And Believing in Lies?

MISTAKES WERE MADE – But Not by Me

YOUR BRAIN IS DESIGNED TO SURVIVE, NOIT THRIVE – Taking Control of your Brain

2022

THE MIND-BODY LINK & YOUR HEALTH – The Hidden Cost of Stress

JOYOUS RESILIENCE – Cultivating Self-Nurturance & Pleasure

EMOTIONS 101 – The Language of Emotions – According to Brené Brown

CALLING FOR A NEW BUSINESS MODEL…Based on Psychological Safety

YOUR BODY IS YOUR BRAIN…Leveraging Your Somatic Intelligence

2021

SHAME – The Unspoken, Debilitating Emotion

EDITION 100 – It’s Been Quite the Journey!

PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY – Creating a Fearless Organization

DITCH THE ACT – Show the Real You to the World

THE EMPATHETIC MINDSET – The Value of Compassion as a Leadership Necessity

CHANGING YOUR DEFAULT MINDSET – Disrupting Unconscious Biases

THE MONK vs. MONKEY MINDSET Living the Life You Want to Live

THE KEY TO OPTIMAL COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING The Quality of Your Social Networks

UNDERSTANDING YOUR BRAIN How You Became You

LIMITLESS The Limitless Model

FIGHT OR FLIGHT FOREVER Turning Anxiety Into Initiative

2020

THE CAPACITY FOR STILLNESS The Doorway to Self-Mastery

TIGER WOODS & DECEPTIVE BRAIN MESSAGES Lessons for Professional Athletes

GETTING COLLABRATION RIGHT Six Essential Skills

LEADING WITH A FINITE MINDSET IN AN INFINITE GAME
Resulting in a Decline of Trust, Cooperation & Innovation

OVERCOMING SELF-DEFEATING THOUGHTS
By Writing Them Down

SPECIAL EDITION – DEALING WITH THE CORONAVIRUS
Keeping Your Brain Healthy

YOU ARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE The Biology of Belief

EXPRESSING EMOTIONS
The Key to Handling Internal Stress

THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS
Moving Beyond Being a Victim

EMOTIONS ARE NOT YOUR REACTIONS TO THE WORLD
They Are Your Constructions of It

SUBLIMINAL
The Power of Your Unconscious Mind

WE ARE WIRED FOR AUTHENTICITY
The Key to Leading & Inspiring Others

2019

SILO-BUSTING How to Build a Team of Teams

GRIT
The Key to Outstanding Achievement

COMBATTING STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE
The Essential Role of Laughter

DOES YOUR BRAIN ALWAYS ACT IN YOUR BEST INTEREST?
Taking Control Over Your Brain

NINE LIES ABOUT WORK
Leadership in the Real World

OVERCOMING EMOTIONAL STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE
Taking Control Over Your Work Life

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIGH & LOW PERFORMERS
One Second

CHOOSING COURAGE OVER COMFORT
What Real Leadership is All About

DE-MYSTIFYING CULTURE BUILDING
Three Key Skills

CRACKING THE CODE OF SUSTAINED COLLABORATION
Six Training Priorities

HELPING EMPLOYEES LOVE WHAT THEY DO
The Neuroscience of Employee Engagement

2018

THE LEADER’S GUIDE TO CORPORATE CULTURE De-mystifying Organizational Culture

WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE LEADER?
The Latest Research on the Most Important Leadership Competencies

WHAT DO BACK PAIN & LEADERSHIP HAVE IN COMMON?
The Mind-Body Connection

DE-MYSTIFYING MISSION STATEMENTS
Creating an Outward Mission Statement

BUILDING AN OXYTOCIN-BASED WORK CULTURE
The Trust Factor

DO YOU HOLD YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE AS A LEADER?
Lessons From the Navy SEALS

WHEN’S THE BEST TIME TO GET THINGS DONE?
The Science of Timing

EMOTIONAL AGILITY
Responding to Negative Self-Talk

CREATING A PURPOSE-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION
How to Energize Employees in the Workplace

SOLVING COMPLEX PROBLEMS
The Most Important Skill You Never Learned

BEYOND MINDFULNESS
To Being Conscious

2017

MAKING THE PERFECT SALES PITCH The Neuroscience of Selling

HAPPINESS & IMPROVING PERFORMANCE
The Happiness Advantage

CREATING A THINKING ENVIRONMENT
Heling Employees Think For Themselves

WHAT DRIVES BUSINESS SUCCESS?
Human Capital as a Source of Competitive Advantage

WHAT SETS SUCCESSFUL CEOs APART?
Adapting Proactively

THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MAKING GUT DECISIONS
Demystifying Your Intuition

THE NEUROSCIENCE OF EMOTION
Understanding Emotion as a Leadership Essential

SHOULD LEADERS FOCUS ON CREATING “HAPPY” WORKPLAC ES?
The Neuroscience of Happiness

WANT TO BECOME A BETTER LEADER?
Learn About the Brain & Emotions

BECOME A MASTER MOTIVATOR
Understand Why We Do What We Do

ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCY
Leadership Lessons From the World-Famous San Diego Zoo

2016

EGO IS THE ENEMY What Stands in the Way of Leadership Development?

STORYTELLING AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Lessons From Starbucks, Southwest Airlines & KPMG

THE BRAIN & PRODUCTIVITY What Differentiates Highly Productive Managers

LEFT-BRAINERS, LEADERSHIP & TEAMWORK Lessons From NASA

ENTERING THE DISCOMFORT ZONE Turning Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs

IDENTIFYING YOUR EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS Taking Control Of Your Environment

NOTHING KILLS PROGRESS LIKE A BRILLIANT STRATEGY
Resisting the Brain’s Tendency to Overplan

ELIMINATING DESTRUCTIVE WORK HABITS Taking Control Of Your Grey Matter

THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY THAT LEADERS ENGAGE IN Instilling A “Founder’s Mentality”

HOW THE BRAIN COMPLICATES LEADERSHIP How Our Brain Makes Sense of One Another is Complicated

THE MINDFULNESS JUGGERNAUT Mindfulness Becoming a Key Leadership Competency

UNLOCKING YOUR EMPLOYEES’ BRAINS Lessons to Learn From Google

2015

WE ARE DESIGNED TO COOPERATE
The Neurochemistry of Leadership

DECEPTIVE BRAIN MESSAGES RESULT IN TOXIC WORK CULTURES
Taking Control of Your Brain

RAPID GROWTH POSES A THREAT TO THE BRAIN
Managing Change in a Growing Organization

BUILDING TRUST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP SKILL
The Neuroscience of Trust

CONVERSATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IS AN ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP SKILL
The Neuroscience of Conversations

THE BRAIN & DECISION-MAKING
Cognitive Biases in Making Bad Decisions

THE BRAIN & INNOVATION
Focus on Changing Your Team’s Climate

THE BRAIN & INFORMATION OVERLOAD
The Organized Mind

E-COMMUNICATIONS & NEURAL ADDICTION
The Neural Cost of E-mails, Texts & Social Media

YOUR BRAIN & SELF-DECEPTION
Being Self-Absorbed is a Leadership Dilemma

THE KEY TO DRIVING GROWTH & PROFITABILITY
The Emotional Brain

BUILDING UP YOUR YOUR THINKING AGILITY

2014

WE DO NOT SEE WITH OUR EYES. WE SEE WITH OUR BRAINS
How to significantly improve impact of training

WE ARE WIRED TO CONNECT SOCIALLY
Maslow Has It All Wrong

FOCUS: THE HIDDEN DRIVER OF EXCELLENCE
The Brain Learns & Remembers Best When Focus Is Greatest

NEUROSCIENCE & ADULT LEARNING
How to Encode Learning Into Long Term Memory

WORKPLACE NEGATIVITY IS CONTAGIOUS

MIRROR NEURONS & THE LOST ART OF CONVERSATION

ENHANCING YOUR MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES – SIGNIFICANTLY

NEUROSCIENCE & MAKING LEARNING STICK

THE BRAIN SEES CHANGE AS A THREAT

START WITH WHY
And watch your business take off

MAXIMIZING BRAINPOWER ON THE JOB
The Healthy Mind Platter

2013

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INNOVATION

NEUROSCIENCE & PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Performance Reviews Activate Threat Response

30 MUST HAVE MANAGEMENT BOOKS

THE MINDFULNESS ADVANTAGE
Re-Thinking Company Cultures