Your Brain at Work
Business & Finance
About
In organizations around the world, leaders are facing a deluge of urgent issues: a crisis in employee engagement, the need to make workforces more diverse, and the challenge of making workplaces feel human in an era of increasing dependence on technology and remote communication.At the NeuroLeadership Institute, we believe brain science can help provide solutions. Join us on Your Brain At Work, the official podcast of the NeuroLeadership Institute — where top researchers and thought leaders share breakthroughs in brain science and industry leaders reveal the strategies behind their success.By helping them understand how the brain works, we equip leaders with the tools to transform their organizations — building new habits and changing how people work, communicate, and make decisions. Combining research and practice, brain science and business leadership, Your Brain at Work explores how insights from the lab can provide solutions that work across industries and at any scale.Season 1
Episodes
- The Neuroscience of Learning in the AI Era
- A discussion with Dave Ulrich and Matt Breitfelder
- How a Legacy Company Reinvented Its Culture
- A conversation with Diane Gherson, former CHRO of IBM, on the future of HR
- AI and the Developing Brain: A Conversation with Researcher Dr. Zak Stein
- The Human-AI Experience: A Conversation with Futurist Douglas Rushkoff
- Your Brain On Music: A Conversation With Neuroscientist Dr. Indre Viskontas
- Leading AI Transformation: The neuroscience of the heart of the challenge, and what to do about it
- Reflections from Davos 2026
- Turning Signals into Action: Data-driven insights that forecast 2026
- Cultivating AI-Fluency: The Key to True Human-AI Partnership
- Brain, know thyself
- Trends in Leadership Development: Designing the Ultimate Leadership Strategy in 2026
- The Biggest Insights from Summit 2025: What's Next for Leadership?
- Performance management in an AI era
- Help your organization adapt faster with a Growth Mindset
- Leadership Reimagined: The Science of designing and delivering transformational leadership development
- The Habits of AI Fluency
- A 3 year roadmap for how AI can transform talent and learning
- AI and the near future of talent management
- Designing for insight: A brain-based approach for unforgettable events
- Trends in Leadership Development: Reimagining how leaders are developed
- Does AI signal the end to executive coaching?
- Conversations That Inspire Accountability and Action
- How to build an AI operating system that can make us smarter
- The Science of Building Habits that Stick
- The Science of Building Resilience in a Complex World
- Trends in leadership now: The principles of high performance
- Season Finale - 2026 Forecast: Preparing for the Future of Leadership
In the session, David and Emma will discuss the most significant challenges leaders faced this year—from overwhelming complexity to the constant pressure for innovation, all while navigating the questions of how and where to use AI. Discov…
- Trends in Leadership Development: Designing the Ultimate Leadership Strategy in 2026
In a world defined by accelerating change, overwhelm, and complexity, traditional models of leadership development are outdated. Now is the time to consider your 2026 strategy – one that moves from a series of disconnected events to a simp…
- The Future of Leadership AI: An Ecosystem of Coherent Insights
Leaders don’t just need AI, they need a leadership AI that creates an ecosystem of coherent insights that makes them smarter and more effective. Join us for this week's Your Brain at Work, featuring NLI’s CEO and Co-Founder, Dr. David Rock…
- How NILES Can Make Leaders Smarter
Today’s leaders are constantly trying to keep up with the complexity of the organizational landscape, all while making smarter decisions and driving their teams towards innovation. Join us for the next edition of "Your Brain at Work Live,"…
- The Real Science of Habits
In this episode of Your Brain at Work, we unlock the secrets to embedding effective and resilient habits. In today’s environment of accelerating change and overwhelming demands, building strong habits – those that become default under pres…
- Meet Coach NILES: A Next Generation Approach to Coaching Through AI
Meet the world’s smartest leadership coach, NILES, NLI’s Neuro Intelligent Leadership Enhancing System. Designed to make leaders smarter, faster. In today's tricky environment, leaders are under pressure to do more with less, juggling mult…
- Trends in Leadership Now: How to Keep Inspiring Great Work Amidst Challenges
Organizations are facing a complex landscape of challenges and potential crises, driven by rapid technological advancements, shifting economic conditions, and evolving global events. Frameworks such as VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, comple…
- The Stuff of Thought: Critical Thinking in the Age of AI
AI agents are continuously evolving in ways that increase their potential to support our work. Not only can they synthesize long meetings and moments later provide you with key insights, ideas, and actions, they can also write your emails,…
- From Mandatory to Compelling: The Science of Filling the Room
Conventional wisdom suggests that if you want people to participate, you need to mandate it. However, this can easily backfire. What research suggests is that if you want people to participate and get the most out of this participation, yo…
- The Neuroscience of Cognitive Bias
Uncertainty surrounds the future of DEI. Many organizations plan to continue their DEI work, yet they’re likely to face a number of challenges along the way. To be successful as we evolve our work, it's important to understand why DEI effo…
- The Neuroscience of Psychological Safety
Organizational survival in the midst of accelerating change and complexity depends on employees' sense-making, adapting, and taking risks. Psychological safety can effectively facilitate each of these processes. In fact, psychological safe…
- Leadership Now: Leading Through Uncertainty and Change
During times of intense uncertainty and change, leaders are often called upon to navigate their team through challenges, provide clarity in the face of ambiguity, and make critical decisions under pressure. In the midst of the chaos, leade…
- The Neuroscience of Proactive Accountability
Join the next Your Brain at Work Live as Senior Director of Research, Dr. Emma Sarro and Global Head of Culture and Leadership, Matt Summers walk us through the current state of accountability, why it needs to be a priority for organizatio…
- The Science of Togetherness & Division
Join us for a deep dive into the foundational research of what drives humans to connect with each other, to feel a sense of togetherness, and in contrast, what creates division.
- The Neuroscience of Difficult Conversations
Join us for an episode that dives into the core science that makes these conversations difficult on both sides, and how to use that science to improve them.
- Trends in Leadership Now: A Discussion of Leadership Styles – and How to Develop a Style That Drives Performance
Leaders can generally be categorized into one of two types: servant and authoritarian. We'll discuss what drives people to develop into each type of leader, the differences in their belief systems, and importantly, how their brain processe…
- Your Brain on Laughter: The Essential Role That Humor Plays in the Workplace
Listen to a special episode of Your Brain at Work as David Rock interviews comedian Ben Gleib on the importance of bringing humor to the workplace and how to do it well. Humor is arguably one of the easiest ways to boost employee satisfact…
- The Right Way to Approach DEI Today
Getting leaders to engage in learning is one of the central changes for HR and talent functions. During times of intense change, this can often appear to be less important, when in fact it may be even more critical. Yet, how can we engage…
- The Science of Self Regulation in a Complex World
Feeling overwhelmed? You’re not the only one. With the rate of organizational change at an all time high, you’re having to work with more information than ever and under more pressure to perform. It’s nearly impossible to be effective in t…
- Changing the World in Africa: A Story of One Man’s Unusual Mission with Lessons for Us All
Join Dr. David Rock for a special episode of Your Brain at Work live as he interviews Damien Mander, an Iraq war veteran turned environmentalist and founder of Akashinga, an anti-poaching foundation. His story is a unique one that highligh…
- Leadership Now: Trends in Leadership Development Today, A Focus on Critical Thinking
In our next episode of Your Brain at Work Live, we are continuing our discussion around the leadership development trends of 2025 – this time focusing on the increased demand for critical thinking in the workplace. NLI’s Vice President of…
- Where Do We Go From Here? Separating Fact From Fiction to Move DEI Forward
With all the ‘noise’ surrounding political pushback, legal challenges, and a volatile social climate, it's hard to separate what’s true from what’s trending. Join DEI expert Janet M. Stovall, CDE, and legal scholar Kenji Yoshino next Frida…