Dr. Brynn L. Winegard | Global Expert in Applied Neuroscience, Positive Psychology for Professionals and Award Winning Professor

Dr. Brynn L. Winegard

Global Expert in Applied Neuroscience, Positive Psychology for Professionals and Award Winning Professor

Dr. Brynn L. Winegard
Biography

Dr. Brynn has been unlocking the brain science behind workday performance for the top corporate teams in North America for over 20 years. 

She is a multiple-award-winning Professor a represented Professional Speaker, an Expert, and a TV Commentator in Applied Neuroscience and Positive Psychology for Professionals. She is also the author of “The Working Brain“ a book for professionals on how to optimize their workday performance using the latest research in Lifestyle Medicine. 

Dr. Brynn Winegard is a multi-award-winning Professor, Professional Speaker, and Global Expert in Applied Neuroscience and Positive Psychology for Professionals. Dr. Brynn has a formal education in Neuroscience, Psychology, and Organizational Studies (HBSc, MBA, PhD) and over a decade in corporate business development (marketing, sales) for Pfizer Inc., Nestle Inc., and Johnson & Johnson Inc.

Dr. Brynn retains positions as Faculty at Schulich School of Business and Lang School of Business & Economics. More recently she has moved her formal research programs in applied neuroscience and positive psychology for brain health and wellness for high-achieving professionals to the  Harvard-McLean Institute of Coaching. 

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Featured Keynote Programs

The Working Brain - Optimize Workday Performance
“How to Build an Antifragile Brain”

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.   

‘Neuroleadership’

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

Boost My Brain!

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

Work Wonders!

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

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Featured Book

The Working Brain: Optimize Your Workday Performanceby Dr. Brynn L. Winegard

The Working Brain: Optimize Your Workday Performance

by Dr. Brynn L. Winegard

Realize a more productive workday by understanding and using your brain better.

As news outlets buzz over AI and supercomputers, many professionals feel doomed to fall behind. The most complex, adaptive, and impressive computing technology still ever known exists inside you: your human brain. But how well do you truly understand or use this amazing asset? Popular brain myths and corporate lore have probably held you back from fully leveraging this powerful technology, leaving your professional potential latent. By busting brain myths and relaying the latest insights, Dr. Brynn L. Winegard wants to help you use your brain better to unlock your full potential and realize your most productive self, day, and work life.

In The Working Brain, Dr. Brynn draws on her academic research in neuroscience, positive psychology, and corporate career to show you how to get more from your brain while asking less of your willpower. This science-backed practical guide is the missing manual for using your brain better at work and makes the latest brain insights accessible, tangible, and actionable. Understand how to tap into the brain’s natural rhythms and use Dr. Brynn's MERIT Framework (Move, Eat, Rest, Interact, Think) to customize your workday for optimum productivity and performance. Discover the best times to work, focus, zone out, and rest, and collect the tips and techniques to fuel, excite, replenish, and stimulate your brain in vital ways at work.

With its practical tips, The Working Brain gives you the potential to be more productive, feel more motivated, and perform at your peak all workday long.

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