Dr. Brynn L. Winegard

You’re in for a Maelstrom of Challenges: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt plague the North American workforce as a result of the WFH pandemic hangover and volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous geopolitical and socioeconomic circumstances - all contributing to worker distress, disengagement, disorder, negative emotions, negative work experiences, unprecedented sick days, absenteeism, silent quitting, low morale, and a growing mental health epidemic (Gallup, 2024).

You Must Deliver Growth & Profit Through it All: The coming marketscape is poised to create much bigger winners and losers than ever before. By all accounts we can expect a continuation of what we saw through the pandemic - “the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer”.  You and your business will be asked to grow, innovate, deliver margin, and profit amidst all of this - the labor shortages, AI disruption, economic downtown, runaway inflation, a recession, supply chain issues, trade wars, worker disengagement, a continuation of the great resignation, more disorder, disaster, and disease. 

The Only Way Out is Through…Your People: The answer must be found in your greatest asset and greatest expense to date: your people. Your employees need to be poised to do more with less, take on more and win, and thrive through adversity. Operational tools, closer management, new tech, schedule flexibility, new workspaces, one-on-ones, listening sessions, boxes of cookies, and mailed care packages only go so far, and don’t tackle the challenge head-on (low worker engagement, low mental wellness, fixed and fragile mindsets) - they merely bandaid some explicit symptoms (e.g. loneliness, worry, sadness, anger, negative work experiences, Gallup 2024).

Mindset Makes the (Hu)Man: Workers won’t take endless hits and strive to succeed because they’re told to do it; they’ll strive when they are trained to do it. Specifically, trained in how to use their brains better and differently to foster an antifragile mindset - one that grows, develops, and flourishes through challenge, shocks, strife, and adversity.

This keynote explains the workday from your brain’s perspective. From your internal physiological and neurochemical schedule to the activities that create ideal worker performance and unlock an antifragile mindset required.   

The Science of Self-Presentation, Establishing Influence, & Leadership Presence

Good leaders are skilled at attracting and energizing followership by virtue of their interpersonal influence, persuasiveness, energy, and interpersonal intelligence. Developing yourself as an effective leader in this vain requires a solid grasp of human psychology, emotional intelligence, as well as the neural and cognitive factors that really engage, mobilize, and energize people.

In this talk we look at the ‘science of influential self-presentation’ so leaders can gain a better understanding of how to develop themselves and their executive presence to galvanize those from whom they need to draw followership and non-coerced compliance. We take the principles of ‘neuroselling’ and the brainscience behind influence and persuasion, and apply them to the interpersonal realm so that leaders may be more effective at developing their followership, influence, and persuasiveness with others. 

Highlights:

• Dynamic, Fast-Paced, Enthusiastic, Educational, Information-Intensive, Cutting-Edge

• Learn the ‘science of influential self-presentation’ for developing one’s leadership or executive presence

• Learn how the human brain really perceives your messages, influence, persuasiveness, & leadership

• Understand better how to galvanize followership – the language, approach, beliefs you must employ to develop your executive presence and gain higher engagement and non-coercive compliance

• Lessons are are practical, useable, real, tangible, and applied

• Participants walk away with tips, tricks, and tools for how to better engage their people and motivate desired actions for outcomes

• 90+ minute timeslot (optional Q & A included)

• This talk is designed for people-managers, mid-level managers, managers being groomed for higher leadership positions, managers struggling to find their own voice with their people, managers struggling to be effective in their directives, influence or guidance of others

Optimize Your Brain for Higher Motivation, Productivity & Peak Cognitive Functionality

Better functionality, sustainably higher motivation, and increased productivity are within reach!

By dispelling myths and banishing misconceptions about the human brain, Dr. Brynn will walk through frontier findings from applied neuroscience that will help you operate your own human brain more effectively so you may find more workday balance, thwart burnout, and have sustainably higher productivity, motivation, and cognitive functionality.

You will learn how new discoveries are proving conventional brain ideas wrong – and what to do instead! In this talk you will discover the latest findings from interdisciplinary sciences about how we should best organize our day, time, energy, schedule, sleeping, thinking and even eating in order to feel more motivated, be more productive, thwart burnout, and strike workday balance. Together, we ‘Boost Your Brain’!

Highlights:

• High-Energy, Dynamic, Fast-Paced, Interactive, Enthusiastic, Energizing, Cutting-Edge, Information-Intensive

• Insights are highly practical, tangible, accessible, and applied – participants learn about how to optimize and use their brains better as they sit in their seats

• Relevant to almost all work functions, ages, positions, industries, categories

• 1-hr timeslot (optional Q & A included)

• Perfect for kicking off a full-day/full-conference of programming – helps participants absorb subsequent session learnings more effectively

Brain-Based Do’s & Don’ts for New Work Realities

The end of the pandemic is ushering in new possibilities, problems, and work realities - for workers and employers alike. Many employers still offer flex-schedules and work-from-home options while others attempt to mandate a return to the office, all with varying degrees of success and productivity.

Research shows workers are simultaneously ‘zoomed out’ yet hesitant to return to the office - WFH has become the new (and comfortable) norm. Mental health indicators have taken a nosedive as a result of worker social isolation, VUCA circumstances, and now the ask of further change: a return to office spaces. So ‘the great resignation’ continues.

In this talk, Dr. Brynn relays the brainscience behind why returning to offices, meeting with colleagues, and having face-to-face time again is so valuable for people, productivity, motivation, mental health, and happiness. In the brain’s reward centers, flex schedules are good while human interaction is great.

Presented in the form of ‘Do’s’ and ‘Don’ts’ from applied neuroscience, audiences learn the micro-habits, tips, tricks, tools, and techniques they need to know for how to optimize their thinking, managing, technology-usage, emotions, time, energy, brain power, balance, productivity, and motivation in new work contexts, in new work realities.

Highlights:

• Motivational, Upbeat, Empowering, Energizing, Dynamic, Fast-Paced, Interactive, Enthusiastic, Cutting-Edge, Educational, Information-Intensive

• Research-based, science-backed, objective, non-dogmatic

• Presented in everyday English, entertaining, highly accessible: insights, examples, stories are designed for non-scientists to easily and quickly absorb, understand, and put learnings into practice

• Insights are highly practical, tangible, accessible, and applied – learnings can be activated near immediately, with minimal effort, prep times, or costs

• Participants learn what the burgeoning area of Applied Neuroscience says to do in order to productively and happily engage in new work realities

• Great for General Assemblies - relevant to almost all work functions, job types, roles, ages, positions

• Relevant to almost all categories, industries, sectors, companies, employer-types

• 1-hr timeslot (optional Q & A included)

• Perfect for kicking off a full-day/full-conference of programming – helps participants absorb subsequent sessions more effectively; feel more engaged as they do so

• Provides workers with helpful brain-based self-help tips, tricks, and tools as they grapple with further change, return to offices, and attempt to overcome their fears or hesitations