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Cognitive Empathy: A Leadership Imperative

In today’s fast-paced and complex work environment, leaders face a critical challenge: how to drive performance while fostering connection, trust, and collaboration. The answer lies in cognitive empathy - the ability to understand how others think and experience the...

Shifting the Dial on Psychological Safety: From Insight to Systemic Change

Psychological safety is no longer a “nice to have.” It is increasingly recognised as a critical psychosocial risk factor - one that directly impacts wellbeing, performance, and organisational sustainability. Many organisations invest in workshops, leadership messages,...

Culture as Your Competitive Advantage (and Why Thinking Differently Might Just Save Your Sanity)  

This post is a contribution from Carole Coooper , an HBDI® Certified Practitioner, and Director/Founder of Carole Cooper Consulting . If you’ve ever worked somewhere with a great culture, you feel it the moment you walk in. There’s energy. People...

Think smart under pressure: The neuroscience of decision making and the power of Whole Brain® Thinking

Every day at work, you make decisions, from quick-fire responses to complex, high-stakes choices. These decisions shape not just outcomes, but relationships, culture, and your ability to adapt. When time is short, ambiguity is high, or the stakes are personal,...

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How being a deep thinker makes you a better leader

How being a deep thinker makes you a better leader

Leaders are essential for any business as they have the ability to inspire and motivate employees, create a positive workplace culture, set clear goals and promote growth. Leaders must be able to effectively communicate their vision to their team members in order to...

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Whole Brain® Thinking and Business Disruption

Whole Brain® Thinking and Business Disruption

Every established organisation gets disrupted eventually. If you’re lucky enough to survive it, you’ll probably wonder why you didn’t see it coming and what you can do differently next time.  A disruption management plan helps you combine elements of strategy,...

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Enduring, and coming out of a Pandemic: Key Takeaways

Enduring, and coming out of a Pandemic: Key Takeaways

The pandemic disrupted life and work as we knew it. It was a period that compelled organisations to change the way they operated and shifted tens of millions of office employees into remote work. Pre COVID, it was hard to imagine we could work from home in the way we...

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How to build Psychological Safety within Your Team

How to build Psychological Safety within Your Team

The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety. But what exactly is it? According to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, who coined the term: “Psychological safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for...

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Whole Brain® Thinking in a Digital World

This guest post is a contribution from Herrmann International Asia partner, Prasad Deshpande, CEO of Empowered Learning LLP. “Preserving the status quo is not a business strategy.” Shantanu Narayen - CEO Adobe. Digital Masters Disruption caused by technology has been...

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Creativity, Learning and the Specialised Brain

This article is adapted from Ned Herrmann’s original paper: Creativity, Learning and the Specialised Brain In the Context of Education for Gifted and Talented Children* I would like to acquaint you with my specialised language, which is the new language of brain...

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How to thrive in a COVID-normal landscape

As tough as the past 12 months have been for many of us across the globe, we can take some solace in the fact that there will be better days ahead. 2020 will long remind us of devastating job losses and business closures. Moving forward, it should be no surprise that...

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