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Unlocking the Power of Cognitive Diversity with Herrmann
At Herrmann, we help organisations tap into one of their most valuable assets: the cognitive diversity of their people.
Cognitive diversity goes beyond background, experience, or perspective—it’s about the different ways people prefer to think. And in today’s complex world of work, those differences are essential. Solving tough problems, making smart decisions, and driving innovation all rely on the ability to harness diverse thinking styles.
For more than 30 years, organisations around the world have used Whole Brain® Thinking to boost productivity, spark innovation, foster inclusion, and create stronger integration across teams.
Our client stories show that the impact goes far beyond one-off results. By embedding Whole Brain® Thinking into the way they work, these organisations have built lasting internal capabilities that fuel sustained growth.
Hear directly from our clients and see how thinking differently makes all the difference.
Customer Success with Suntory Oceania
Aimee Sherer
Learning & Capability Manager
Suntory Oceania
When I joined Suntory 4 years ago we already had a long standing relationship with Herrmann. The Whole Brain® Model is part of our cultural DNA. It’s one of our key foundational tools that we use for development of our people. We talk so much about unlocking performance through cognitive diversity, and the HBDI® is our gateway tool that opens a door for people to be able to do that.
Customer Success with Nespresso Australia & Oceania
Danielle Wylie
Learning & Development Manager
Nespresso Australia & Oceania
I was first introduced to HBDI® and Whole Brain® Thinking back in 2014 when I was profiled. What resonated for me most was when I took that back to the boutique and started looking at how I coached individual team leaders and clue spot what their profiles might be. Within our Corporate Sales team we rolled out HBDI® and Whole Brain® Thinking to help them really understand when they’re profiling customers. They now use it as a tool to prepare for meetings so they’re able to approach it from a Whole Brain® perspective.
Customer Success with Swinburne University of Technology
Angela McMillan
Organisational Development Manager - People & Culture, Swinburne University of Technology
For the last 15 years Swinburne University has been using HBDI® that enables teams to better understand themselves and their thinking preferences. The better we understand ourselves, the better we’re going to be able to produce innovative outcomes and collaborate with one another. It’s simple in its application but can also go much deeper the more you use it. It can change people’s lives. It can change the way people look at the world and that can only be a positive thing.
Customer Success with Woolworths New Zealand
Pauline d'Unienville
General Manager - Culture & People
Woolworths New Zealand
We began our HBDI® journey in 2016 and wanted to focus on personal development for our teams. Using the HBDI® allowed our teams to better understand each other and really helped from a communication and interaction perspective. We’re really starting to see a lot more collaboration and working better together. It’s really allowed our team to embrace diversity of thought and as an organisation unlock the difference in thinking.
Customer Success with UnitingCare QLD
Bruce Moore
Executive Director - Mission, UnitingCare QLD
HBDI® helps us to approach in a Whole Brain® way and a holistic way. Our long-term vision for the use of the HBDI® across our organisation is to cascade this right down through all the different layers of our leadership, right through to the frontline. Our approach is that we place our customer firmly at the centre. What HBDI® enables us to do is to think about that person and what we find is that it enables others to feel like they can contribute with a different voice, a different set of eyes, a different way of thinking.
Customer Success with Australian Pharmaceutical Industries
Steven Arthurson
General Manager of People
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries
HBDI® started for us in 2013. We’ve always done a lot of work on helping people understand themselves better. Not only accepting but really valuing that diversity of thought is something we’re really interested in and we thought the HBDI® and Whole Brain® Thinking might assist us with that. We discovered that it is incredibly valuable in the team environment. We now spend more time on using the HBDI® and Whole Brain® Thinking in relation to how people get along in teams and creating high performance teams. We’ve got it locked in now as a core component of what we do so it will be with us for a long time.
Business and Not-For-Profit
Whole Brain® Thinking grows productivity by helping managers understand and leverage the unique thinking preferences of project teams, functional groups, and pairs.
The result is that your team will feel connected, understood and engaged.
Consultants
We have worked with consultancies, big and small, across the APAC region over the last 30 years.
Partner with Herrmann and take Whole Brain® Thinking and the HBDI® to your clients. Help them to unlock the diversity of thought within their organisations.
Education
With Whole Brain® Thinking and the HBDI®, educators can gain powerful insights into the way every student learns, then use these insights to develop new methods for increasing engagement.
Encourage students to stretch beyond their comfort zones, embrace cognitive diversity, and improve learning outcomes.
The world’s largest organisations trust Herrmann.
Will you?
More than 2 million people from 97% of Fortune 100 companies have used Whole Brain® Thinking to improve productivity, innovation, collaboration, and inclusion.
What our clients are saying
The Whole Brain® Model is part of our cultural DNA. It’s one of our key foundational tools that we use for development of our people. We talk so much about unlocking performance through cognitive diversity, and the HBDI® is our gateway tool that opens a door for people to be able to do that. The outcomes that we’ve seen from using the HBDI and Whole Brain® Thinking is a really strong culture of self-awareness across the organisation and a common language.
Aimee Sherer
Learning and Capability Manager
Suntory Oceania
For the last 15 years Swinburne University has been using HBD® that enables teams to better understand themselves and their thinking preferences. The better we understand ourselves, the better we're going to be able to produce innovative outcomes and collaborate with one another. It's simple in its application but can also go much deeper the more you use it. It can change people's lives. It can change the way people look at the world and that can only be a positive thing.
Angela McMillan
Organisational Development Manager - People & Culture
Swinburne University of Technology
Whole Brain® Thinking is one of the models that always resonates with our community, no matter their background or specialisation. It brings people together in a common language and action and creates an amazing building block to break down communication and collaboration barriers. It's our go-to at all times, even in these unprecedented times of change today, Whole Brain® Thinking is our foundation for bringing people together.
Kathryn Anderson
Human Resources
Westpac
After becoming HBD® Certified, Whole Brain® Thinking has really become a big part of my coaching and the way I communicate with the players. We did an end of season review in 2018 and I looked at the 3 key issues - defence, leadership and communication - through a Whole Brain® lens, thinking through the model for each one. As an organisation, we were in a really good place but what Whole Brain® Thinking was able to do for us was attach a couple of wires that just needed a few adjustments and the results were massive. We were able to have a big turnaround off the back of that.
Brett White
Assistant NRL Coach
Canberra Raiders
We began our HBD|® journey in 2016 and wanted to focus on personal development for our teams. Using the HBD|® allowed our teams to better understand each other and really helped from a communication and interaction perspective. We're really starting to see a lot more collaboration and working better together. It's really allowed our team to embrace diversity of thought and as an organisation unlock the difference in thinking.
Pauline d'Unienville
General Manager - Culture & People
Woolworths New Zealand
