Brynn Winegard
Harvard-Trained Former Fortune 100 Corporate Manager Turned Award-Winning Professor & PhD Neuroscientist
Brynn Winegard
Harvard-Trained Former Fortune 100 Corporate Manager Turned Award-Winning Professor & PhD Neuroscientist
Biography
Dr. Brynn feels purpose-driven to help people with the knowledge she discovered and developed over the last 25 years of life science, medical, and business studies and research. She delivers her cutting-edge brain science research in the form of practical tips, tools, tactics, stories, jokes, anecdotes, case studies, examples, and proprietary frameworks to help professionals boost their mental wellness and cognitive performance at work and during the workday, so they feel better able to tackle challenges, less likely to burnout, and happier about work and life in general. Her keynotes break down complex science into tangible, practical, real, applied insights, key takeaways, and daily practices: the tone and content are designed to be approachable, motivational, inclusive, and truly helpful, so audiences can use their brains better at work, in life, and even as they sit in their seat.
Brynn has been blessed with an extensive client list that includes some of the worlds biggest brands such as Walmart, Google, Disney, Coca-Cola, and American Express (among hundreds others). She has appeared hundreds of times in television, radio, and in print media, including CTV News, CTV, CBC, BNN, MSNBC, Fox, and CBC Marketplace, as well as countless online forums and podcasts.
Dr. Brynn is a multi-award-winning professor of business and considered a global expert in applied neuroscience and positive psychology for professionals - currently ranked #3 for ‘human behavior experts working in business’, according to iMotion Global Research. Prior to her academic career, she had over a decade of corporate experience working for Pfizer, Nestle, and Johnson & Johnson running multi-billion dollar brands.
Brynn holds multiple degrees, including an MBA, and PhD, and now teaches future business leaders in MBA, eMBA, and Executive Education programs at the Lang School of Business and Economics, the Schulich Executive Education Centre, the DeGroote School of Business, and the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research was recently moved to the Harvard-McLean Institute of Coaching, with a focus on brain health, wellness, and lifestyle medicine.
Dr. Brynn recently authored The Working Brain: Optimize Your Workday Performance, an amalgam of all her latest research about how to achieve peak mental wellness and cognitive performance at work and during your workday. Brynn lives with her husband in southern California.
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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
The Working Brain: Optimize Your Workday Performance
In The Working Brain, Dr. Brynn shares science-backed strategies to enhance productivity by syncing with your brain’s rhythms. Using her MERIT Framework (Move, Eat, Rest, Interact, Think), you’ll learn practical tips to boost mental wellness and optimize cognitive performance throughout your career.
Attendees Learn
- The Brain’s Ultradian Cycle: Align your daily tasks with the brain’s ultradian rhythm by scheduling activities around productivity phases & Basic Rest Activity Cycle (BRAC)
- M.E.R.I.T Framework: Learn Dr. Brynn’s proprietary framework for levers you can control to optimize cognitive performance and mental wellness at work: Move, Eat, Rest, Interact, & Think.
- Move: Identify the daily routines during your workday that optimize cognitive performance, such as when, how much, and what type of exercises are best for you.
- Eat: Learning about the science of food and its effect on cognition. When and what to eat (and not eat!) for optimum performance.
- Interact: Understand the importance of social support, capital, and connection in life and at work for mental health and career advancement.
- Rest: The science of sleep, breaks and meditation from a neuroscience perspective.
- Think: The thoughts and practices that go beyond a growth mindset into antifragility so you get better with stress, strife, and challenges - 20+ tactical tips for developing your antifragile mindset