Neuroscience for Leadership
Medical Doctor, Neuroscientist, MIT Faculty Member and Global Consultant to C Suite Executives to visit SA and present at The BRG Progress Conference on Neuroscience for Leadership
Event Date: 18 March 2015
Business Results Group and GIBS presents The 12th Progress Conference on Neuroscience for Leadership with Dr Tara Swart. Tara will present a one day programme in JHB on the 18th March 2015 at The Forum, Bryanston Johannesburg. With a keynote contribution from Dr Etienne Van der Walt.
Dr Swart is an acclaimed author, consultant and academic who 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.
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The 2015 Programme snapshot | What makes a good leader Great!
The 2015 programme includes her latest findings and experience linking scientific brain research to change the way people work and making good leaders great.
How neuroscience, neuro-endocrine systems and neuroplasticity affect interactions with stakeholders, decision making, risk taking and resilience?
- Why leaders are like our prefrontal cortex and how this significantly influences behaviour in our organisations.
- Highlighting tangible evidence linking brain function, wellbeing and workplace productivity.
- Empathy – soft skill; hard results vs easily detected insincere manipulation.
- Harnessing the instinctive desire for co-operation deeply embedded in our minds.
- Essential techniques to avoid transmission of your threat states that can destabilise your organisational culture.
- Encouraging curiosity to achieve frequent moments of surprise and delight.
- Gender diversity and risk; why we are hard wired for loss avoidance versus reward seeking?
- Your brain and money: Does money or financial success drive performance
- Determining the change you require to be a great leader and applying a deliberate process to adapt and acquire the capability for your desired result.
- Accountability | Focus | Practice
This is what her clients have to say,
“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
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
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 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
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 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
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
