Neuroscience Tools For Leadership and Change with Dr. Lisa Riegel

About this episode

Dr. Lisa Riegel discusses how neuroscience can inform leadership behaviors during times of pressure and change.

Your smartest plan can fail if the brain thinks it’s under threat. That’s why we brought on Dr. Lisa Riegel, a neuroscientist and author of Aspirations To Operations and NeuroWell, to translate brain science into leadership behaviors you can actually use when pressure is high and change is nonstop. We start with Lisa’s “quarter-life crisis” reset and the moment she realized success on paper can still feel like failure inside. From there we get practical about choice, acceptance, and why “the...

People in this episode

Host: Jay Johnson

Guest: Dr. Lisa Riegel

Topics covered

• neuroscience
• leadership
• change management
• behavioral science
• personal development

Keywords

• neuroscience
• leadership
• change
• behavior
• quarter-life crisis

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Aspirations To Operations, NeuroWell

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