Hi everyone,

Am just back from two weeks of travel in the US. Was great to connect with two new scientists and create some more video footage to share with others. In San Francisco I met with the 'father' of emotional regulation research, Dr James Gross, who studies how we stay cool under pressure. I also met with the two people doing the most interesting work on insights, both in Chicago, Dr Mark Jung-Beeman, and Dr Stellan Ohlsson. Mark and I are thinking about a study we can collaborate on, which would seek to identify the 'active ingredients' in how insights can be facilitated: is it stopping thinking, vs widening thinking, or something else? I also spent half a day with Kirk Brown, who is one of the central researchers studying mindfulness, and invented the main scale used by mindfulness researchers now, the Mindful Awareness Attention Scale.

I also had the opportunity to interview Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust was neuroscientist and talk about his new book on making decisions and neuroscience generally. It's a great thirty minute discussion, download it here.

I am doing a bit more speaking coming up in Australia while the northern hemisphere is on summer holidays. On July 9 I will be in Sydney at the American Club. On July 28 I am giving a breakfast session for the Australian Institute of Management at the Four Seasons in the city, and that night for the Change Management Institute on why change is hard, followed by a talk in Brisbane on July 31.

On September 5 I am giving a keynote at the New Zealand Human Resources Institute annual conference. Later in September I have been invited to give a talk at Oxford University, as part of the Masters in Change program run at the business school, in partnership with HEC in Paris. Will be spending a week in Oxford connecting with some fascinating people, and doing a deep workshop to kick off a one year leadership program for heads of a large UK government department.

I am excited to have been accepted to do my professional doctorate, through Middlesex University in the UK. The doctorate will be on the neuroscience of leadership, and it will be a great opportunity to flesh out the ideas on how to shape up this emerging field.

Update on the NeuroLeadership Summits
Bookings for both the NYC and Sydney Summits are going well, we're expecting strong events in both cities. I recently did a brief video interview that gives a bit more background to these Summits, (for a webinar I did for the Conference Board in June. ) Click below to watch.



If you're still thinking about coming along and are not sure, here's the 'cliffnotes' on why you might want to attend: The NeuroLeadership Summits will -
• Give you cutting edge research into human performance, including looking at future trends
• Help you understand and manage your own brain better
• Explore how to use neuroscience inside leadership and learning programs
• Illustrate how to to improve leadership and learning programs

You will have access to the leading neuroscientists of our times, as well as networking with practitioners who are integrating neuroscience in many different ways.

The summits each have five main areas of focus, which are topics that both Neuroscience and Leadership development have in common:
1. How we know ourselves
2. How we make decisions and solve problems
3. How we stay cool under pressure
4. How we get on with others
5. How we drive change

Each topic has at least one keynote diving into the research side, and several breakout sessions to explore the application of the ideas.

There's a brief interview here with a participant from the first summit, talking about what he got out of the event, click here to download.


To register of for more information see www.neuroleadership.org