Book Dr. Brynn Winegard, Business Strategy Speaker
About This Speaker
Dr. Brynn Winegard is a globally recognized expert in applied neuroscience and positive psychology for professionals. With over 25 years of experience in life sciences, medical research, and business, she shares practical insights from her cutting-edge brain science research. Her insightful talks aim to empower professionals to improve mental wellness, enhance cognitive performance, and reduce burnout in the workplace.
In her highly engaging and accessible keynotes, Dr. Brynn translates complex neuroscience into actionable takeaways that audiences can implement immediately. Through stories, humor, case studies, and proprietary frameworks, she equips professionals with the tools to boost productivity. Her goal is to help professionals feel more resilient in the face of challenges, and achieve a better work-life balance.
Dr. Brynn Winegard has worked with some of the world’s top brands, including Walmart, Google, Disney, Coca-Cola, and American Express. She is a frequent media contributor, appearing on outlets such as CTV, CBC, MSNBC, and FOX, and is a sought-after guest on podcasts and online platforms.
Dr. Brynn is also an award-winning professor of business. She teaches in top MBA, eMBA, and Executive Education programs at leading institutions such as the Lang School of Business, Schulich Executive Education Centre, and Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research, now housed at the Harvard-McLean Institute of Coaching, focuses on brain health, wellness, and lifestyle medicine.
Her latest book, The Working Brain: Optimize Your Workday Performance, offers the latest research-based strategies for enhancing mental wellness and performance at work.
Videos
Speaking Topics: Dr. Brynn Winegard
Boost My Brain! The Brain Science of Mental Wellness & Peak Cognitive Performance
According to Gallup’s latest, the post-pandemic workforce faces distress, disorder, and disengagement, while businesses must grow despite a mental health epidemic, uncertainty, and economic instability. The solution requires helping employees to help themselves by cultivating peak brain function and an antifragile mindset for thriving and flourishing through volatility, stress, strife, and change. Attendees Learn: • The Brain’s Ultradian Cycle: Align your daily tasks with the brain’s ultradian cycle by optimizing activities based on productivity phases and Basic Rest-Activity Cycle (BRAC) of your brain.. • Dr. Brynn’s M.E.R.I.T Framework: The five levers you can control for optimizing cognitive performance and mental wellness. MERIT stands for Move, Eat, Rest, Interact and Think. • What They Can & Can’t Control: How external factors affect work performance, but certain things like movement, diet, rest, interactions, and mindset are within your control. • Antifragile Mindset: Learn how to develop an antifragile mindset, turning challenges and crises into opportunities for growth and success. • Mindset Shift: Understand how a mindset shift can determine outcomes in volatile environments, making post-traumatic growth more valuable than stress.
Neuroselling: The Brain Science of Persuasion, Influence, & Driving Non-Coercive Compliance
This is all about the brain science of persuasion, influence, and driving non-coercive compliance (getting people to want to do what you want them to do). It reveals the areas of the brain responsible for various types of decision-making, and specifically taps into subconscious drivers, emotional triggers, social cues, biases, and heuristics for the 3Bs of influence: how to get people to believe (in you), buy in (to your ideas), and buy (your goods, products, services). Attendees learn six key brain science secrets for persuasion, influence, and driving non-coercive compliance. Ideal for sales, marketing, and client-facing roles. Attendees Learn: • Persuasion: Learn the 7 persuasion principles that social psychologists said were the subset of all persuasion tactics available to humans (Reciprocity, Consensus, Scarcity, Authority, Commitment, Consistency, Liking) • Influence: Learn the 6 influence insights that social psychologists didn’t understand, but neuroscientists uncovered • Non-Coercive Compliance: Master subconscious triggers to present ideas more influentially so you drive compliance AND harmony • Brain Areas: Understanding brain dynamics and areas helps with understanding why the brain works as it does • Six Brainscience Secrets: Learn many practical, tactical insights and takeaways from each of the 6 secrets - Dr. Brynn’s proprietary framework for human decision making and how you can influence it better
Neuroleadership: The Science of Interpersonal Influence & Executive Leadership Presence
This is the science of persuasion, influence, and driving non-coercive compliance with others at work and in a professional setting. Learn how to establish and build your own interpersonal influence, develop executive leadership presence, and master persuasive communication. Gain actionable tools for self-presentation that motivate and inspire others. This program is typically offered in a ‘platform plus’ format, with breakouts, workshopping, and activities. Designed for managers and aspiring leaders who want real science-backed ways to increase their presence, communication, confidence, and influence. Attendees Learn: • Persuasive Communication: Elevate your influence and communication by understanding the brain’s biases in body language and verbal or non-verbal communications • The ‘Touching Base’ Framework: Learn Dr. Brynn’s proprietary framework - backed by neuroscience - of the 8 levers for how to speak, move, act, and think more influentially • The ‘Science of Self-Presentation’: Drive team and career success by learning how to inspire, motivate, and energize your colleagues by becoming more aware of how you are coming across & perceived • Skill Development: Unlock new career opportunities with cutting-edge communication and influence techniques • Self-Confidence: Gain the tools to become more assertive, confident, and impactful in any workplace setting • Influence & Followership: Stay cool, calm, collected and more charismatic even under duress and drive results with persuasive communication and better leadership presence