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PRESENT
THE BRG PROGRESS CONFERENCE ON
Neuroscience
for Leadership
LINKING SCIENTIFIC BRAIN RESEARCH TO CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE WORK
AND DELIVER TANGIBLE BUSINESS RESULTS | MAKING GOOD LEADERS GREAT!
Dr Tara Swart
Medical Doctor, Neuroscientist, MIT Faculty Member
and Global Consultant to C Suite Executives
Live and in Person with keynote contribution from Dr Etienne Van der Walt
A few simple, pragmatic messages
about how your brain works and
how to get the most out of it
with leadership competency and
capability essential to:
•Make you a more resilient and
inspirational leader.
•Enable you to leverage diversity of
thinking from your teams.
•Help to create the conditions for
success in your organisation.
•Improve your ability to empathise and
innovate into the future.
•Make the best possible decisions.
•Deal with complexity.
•Incentivise performance.
THE CAMPUS BRYANSTON JOHANNESBURG
By connecting your physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual capital you
can:
•Understand the brain-body
connection.
•Explore the interplay between nerves
and hormones that underlies stress
and burnout.
•Increase brain agility and
neuroplasticity.
•Hone your risk-taking and decisionmaking.
•Motivate others to navigate change
and uncertainty.
Based on the neurophysiology
behind these foundations to boost
your brain power and combat
burnout. Pretox solutions:
•Sleep.
•Nutrition and hydration.
•Exercise.
•Mindsets and mindfulness.
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EARLY BIRD OFFER | BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!
Delegates who book and pay by the 1st February 2015 will receive a FREE copy of
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VALUED AT R425.00
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PROGRAMME AGENDA
Applying Neuroscience to Create an Innovative Model for Leadership & Team Development
08h00 Registration and refreshments
09h00 Welcome – Nicola Tyler | CEO Business Results Group
09h15 Session 1| Neuroscience Explained in an Accessible Way
Drawing on the depth of brain agility to adapt and create sustainable
behaviour change
Highlighting the tangible evidence linking brain function, wellbeing and
workplace productivity
State exercise: how stress and success manifest physically, mentally,
emotionally or spiritually in your values
10h45 Break
11h15 Session 2 |Applying the Science of Neuroplasticity to Alter Your
Mindsets, Skill Sets and Thinking
Neuroplasticity; evidencing how you can change your mindset to achieve
your required leadership capability
Neuroplasticity essentials; key requisites to ensure an agile and alert mind
Linking existing neurons with new networks in your brain
Practice makes perfect!
Hybrid exercise: how to hold two opposing thoughts in your mind and
come up with a third option that has elements of both, but is superior to
each of them
12h30 Lunch Break with Brain Food
13h30 Session 3 |Your Brain On Money
Does money or financial success drive performance in your teams?
Risk taking and decision making; understanding why our brains are wired
for loss avoidance rather than reward seeking.
What makes a GOOD
leader REALLY GREAT?
As a leader, do you understand how
your brain affects interactions with
all of your stakeholders? Most of us
don’t! In this 1-day session with Dr
Tara Swart and Dr Etienne van der
Walt, you will learn tools that will
change the face of your leadership
style, FOREVER and for the BETTER
•Learn how leaders influence
our prefrontal cortex and how
this SIGNIFICANTLY influences
behaviour in others
•Develope empathy – the soft skill
that produces hard results versus
that easily detected insincere
manipulation
•Harness the instinctive desire
for co-operation that is deeply
embedded in all of our minds
•Master essential techniques
to avoid transmission of your
personal threat states – ones that
subconsciously destabilise your
organisational culture
•Encourage curiosity to achieve
frequent moments of surprise and
delight
•Determine the change you require
by appling a deliberate framework
to adapt and acquire the capability
for really great results
•Understand that Accountability,
Focus and Practice are three
essentials for neuroscientific and
business success
Gender differences at work and in risk-taking
Mindfulness effects on resilience by changing the brain and neuroendocrine system of the body
15h00 Afternoon Refreshments
15h30 Session 4 KEYNOTE GUEST SPEAKER – Dr Etienne van der Walt
Putting it all together: A Neurobiological Model of Brain Performance to
Thrive in Business
This presentation will draw upon the previous sessions, using themes
of wellness, resilience, reduction of chronic stress, neuroplasticity, the
social brain and the threat/reward system to demonstrate its integrated
importance for enhanced performance to enable us to thrive in business
and life in general.
16h30 In A Nutshell – Panel Discussion facilitated by Nicola Tyler
Q&A Session with Dr Tara Swart & Dr Etienne van der Walt, bringing the
content of the day back into the world of work.
17h00 Close of proceedings
Who Should Attend?
All C Suite Executives and Managers
from the Private and Public Sectors
responsible for:
•Leadership
•Strategy
•Human Capital
•Human Resources
•HR Business Partnering
•Talent Management
•Employee Communications
•Organisational Design
•Remuneration
•Employee Engagement & Wellbeing
•Transformation & Change
•Learning & Development
•Succession Planning
•Line Management
Special feature for CFO’s on “Brains and Money”
Is money or financial performance the appropriate incentive for performance?
YOUR PRESENTER DR. TARA SWART
BSc, PhD, BM Bch (Oxon)
CEO of The Unlimited Mind and Faculty at MIT Sloan, Dr Tara Swart is a
Neuroscientist, Medical Doctor, Global Leadership Consultant, Author and
Non-Executive Director
GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADER
Dr Tara Swart is at the forefront of the application of neuroscience to business.
She has a unique skill set with a PhD in neuroscience and a successful career as a
medical doctor and psychiatrist. This combination of experience and knowledge comes
together to create an uncompromising and holistic impact on business and leadership
performance.
PROLIFIC AUTHOR, EXECUTIVE COACH & HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SPEAKER
2015 2014 2014 2012 2008 2000 1994 Publication of Neuroscience for Leadership book
Appointed as Senior Lecturer at MIT to design and run the Neuroscience for Leadership programme
Financial Times Women in Business Feature
Guest lecturer at MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB and Oxford SAID
Founder of The Unlimited Mind - a neuroscience consulting business for banks and hedge funds
Graduated from Oxford University and practiced as a Psychiatrist for 7 years
Completed her PhD research in Neuroscience
Tara is also a co-author of An Attitude for Acting and contributing author to How to Be Interesting. She has published over 20
articles in journals on neuroscience and coaching. A sought after speaker, Tara has presented globally on the brain in business at
international conferences, blue chip corporations and Oxford, Stanford and MIT. She is regularly quoted in the Financial Times.
COMPELLING EVIDENCE FOR ATTENDING THIS EVENT!
THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY AFTER PARTICIPATING IN HER PROGRAMMES:
We invited Tara to speak at our sales meeting to provide the participants,
all of whom were senior reinsurance brokers, with an alternative, more
scientific perspective on relationships with colleagues and clients. Tara is knowledgeable and enthusiastic in her subject area and her
presentation was absorbing and highly relevant to our audience. It
generated much energy and debate and was acknowledged to be a
stimulating addition to our meeting programme.
Simon Gander, CEO, Global Re Specialty, Aon Benfield
We recently asked Dr. Tara Swart to speak at one of our Executive
Education programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She
received high remarks from our participants, who were mainly CFOs:
“fascinating view on biology, behavior and business,” “inspiring” and
“engaging and fun, repeat her!” We enjoyed partnering with her, and
look forward to future opportunities.
Sherri Fujieda, Associate Director, Stanford Graduate School of
Business
Tara brings a robust and novel approach to understanding how we
behave at work; how much of this is driven by the chemistry of our
brains. The science gives us a more accurate basis for understanding
what motivates us at work both as individuals and as part of a team.
She creates valuable insights into making teams more effective
and successful and is an engaging and persuasive advocate for her
approach.
David Richards, MD and Global Head, Principal Structured Finance,
Standard Chartered Bank
Tara presented to a group of our senior reinsurance brokers on
neuroscience at a sales conference in April this year. Her talk was
thought provoking, engaging and witty. It generated a lot of discussion
in the room and after the conference. The reason Tara’s talk went down
so well, with a critical audience, was due to the scientific rigor that
underpinned the content, the fact that the subject matter was relevant
to all of us (we all have a brain), and the quality of the delivery.
Fiona Logan, Client Relationship Management Director, AON
Benfield
I have engaged Tara for coaching, workshops and also for a highly
engaging talk to over 150 mostly senior bankers. Her material is
fantastic - relevant, up to date, impactful and thought provoking.
This really is “must-have” info, with important implications for the
workplace. Tara’s professional delivery blends expertise with good
humour - she is clearly an accomplished speaker. She had the audience
captivated and handled a wide array of questions with ease and
confidence.
Michael Brooke (CPsychol), UK L&D Lead, BNP Paribas
Tara recently ran an excellent “Neuroscience of Leadership” session very
successfully with a group of our 30 cross cultural leaders. They were
all attending our “Leading Across Boundaries” programme, which we
run at SAID, Oxford, designed for our top 600 leaders of the Bank. She
created immediate trust and rapport with participants, with a high level
of energy, open challenge with the group, to really get them thinking
in a different way about how they operate on a daily basis. Since this
event, Tara has worked with us on our Inclusive Leadership Agenda for
a much broader population in the bank with great impact, and we look
forward to collaborating with Tara on a further basis.
Sam King, Head of Executive and Team Development, Standard
Chartered Bank
Tara Swart came to MIT Sloan to teach in the Sloan Fellows and the
students stood and applauded. The Fellows appreciated learning about
the brain, but also about how to use that knowledge in a corporate
coaching context. Participants left with a greater understanding of
how to lead through the use of emotion and multiple parts of the brain.
Professor Deborah Ancona, MIT Sloan School of Management
GUEST SPEAKER DR. ETIENNE VAN DER WALT
BSc, BMedSc, MBChB, MMed (Neurology)
Etienne is an accomplished neurologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and authority in early
childhood brain development. Etienne’s 15-year career as a clinical neurologist means
he has a deep understanding of the anatomy, biology, and physiology of the brain
and the human nervous system. In more recent years, his professional and personal
fascination with the remarkable discoveries coming from the various brain sciences
has led him to believe in the vast potential of this new knowledge to enhance human
capacity. Or, as Etienne puts it, to enhance normality. The realization of this vision is
the founding of Cape Town based Neurozone™, a neuroscience business dedicated to
the application of brain science to enhance human capacity.
At the heart of the business of Neurozone™ is a proprietary working model of
brain performance. Conceived and developed by Etienne, this model builds on the
anatomy, biology, and physiology of brain performance to identify key drivers that
can be individually and collectively enhanced for optimum brain performance. The
model draws on research from neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry etc. and its
impact in large organisations has been validated in a very recent research study undertaken in collaboration with the
Stellenbosch University. As a result, Etienne has developed a keen understanding of the neurobiological substrates,
principles and insights that underpin organisational behaviour and performance.
The founder of AmazingBrainz™, a non-profit dedicated to the design of programs for the brain stimulation of young,
developing children – especially in disadvantaged communities. Etienne worked as a neurologist in South Africa, the
UK, and the Netherlands, currently teaches applied neuroscience to diverse audiences of professionals, educators, and
parents about the amazing human brain.
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