Srini Pillay, M.D., CEO: NeuroBusiness Group, Harvard-Trained Psychiatrist, Brain Researcher, Leadership Development Expert | Read Bio • CEO: NeuroBusiness Group (Top 20 mover and shaker in Leadership Development in the world: Training Industry)
• Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry: Harvard Medical School
• Former Director: Outpatient Anxiety Disorders Program: McLean Hospital
• Former Director: Panic Disorders: Brain Imaging Center
• LinkedIn Learning: Anxiety/ Depression/ Neuroscience
• Think Tank on Adult Learning & Development: McKinsey &Co. (CAALD)
• US Psychiatry Think Tank: Disasters and the World (GAP)
• Biotechnology
• Active clinician/executive coach/leadership development
Join Dr. Srini Pillay as he helps you work through obstacles to your strategies during the pandemic using the powerful combination of neuroscience, organizational psychology and business research. In this series Dr. Pillay will delve much more deeply into thinking and tools that will support your work moving through this challenging time.
| April 20: #1 |
Cabin Fever and Loneliness: Maximizing Your Time/Optimizing Your Immunity and FocusDr. Srini Pillay will explain the implications of cabin fever and social distancing in the brain, and how leaders will manage this now, and as the workforce integrates. Outcome: Relationship strategies to optimize team cohesion at a time when people are not physically together, and how to manage this when they come together again. And leaders will use this to connect this to strategic goals too |
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| April 27: #2 |
Virtual Teams & Friends: Making the Best of Online ConnectionsDr. Srini Pillay will describe the latest research on how virtual teams work best. He will also describe the effects of teaming in the brain, and how leaders will manage this now, and as the workforce integrates. Outcome: Virtual team strategies to optimize team cohesion and execution of strategy so that leaders can increase operational efficiency. |
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| May 4: #3 |
Your Body Armor: Why the Mind-Body Connection is More Important Than EverDr. Srini Pillay will provide an overview of specific psychological stressors in pandemics, the pandemic brain, and how to build resilience in the pandemic brain. Leaders will then use this information to construct an organizational resilience mindset strategy and will consider how they will scale this throughout their organizations. Outcome: Evaluate where you are on pandemic fears, brain-based resilience, and learn the contents of a new mental playbook for your organization during pandemics. This playbook will be there whenever you need to respond to similar emergencies. And leaders will use this to connect this to strategic goals too. |
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| May 11: #4 |
Leading During and After the Pandemic: What’s Different Now?A sound mind requires a sound body. Dr. Srini Pillay will provide various perspectives from mind-body medicine on how and why to protect your body during this stressful period. Outcome: Leaders will commit to and devise a psychological and physical plan to protect their bodies during this stressful period. And leaders will use this to connect this to strategic goals and time management too. |
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| May 18: #5 |
Learning to Thrive (and not just survive) During and After the PandemicHere, Dr. Srini Pillay will review the brain-basis of antifragility, and how leaders can change their mindsets to become antifragile during this period. Outcome: Leaders will have the time to connect the antifragile mindset principles to their strategic goals. |
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| May 25: #6 |
Putting It All Together: A Day in The Life of a Pandemic ThriverDr. Srini Pillay & Radu Manolescu will facilitate a session in which leaders discuss how their strategies, time management, mindsets, and way of being are being cemented and changed as a result of these interventions Outcome: Anchor 6-8 weeks of learning and set up for review monthly following this. |
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*** All webinar times are 6pm GST / 10am EST via live broadcast. Each webinar is 60 minutes in length and will be recorded.
Location: Via Zoom
Webinar pricing:
Webinar package (all six): $450.00 USD
Individual webinar (up to five): $80.00 USD
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"Just Do It," simply won't work post pandemic with stress levels at epidemic proportions. Today, delivering an organizational goal requires new method with proven psychological heft and departure from the status quo. Stress and mental roadblocks undermine initiatives because they're typically fiercer and more persistent than tangible ones. Leaders and teams can have vastly different beliefs about what's possible to achieve.
How then, do leaders inspire teams to...
Exceed sales quoras?
Create a "never been done before," product
Implement a strategic initiative ... in spite of elevated stress, varying beliefs and mental roadblocks?
Imagine if ... there was a way to boost a sense of what's possible, and a way to transform mental roadblocks to achieve any goal ... no matter what. The shift in focus, time and energy goes from obstacles to the objective. Imagine if... there was a neuroscience toolkit that leaders and teams could apply to increase a goal's viability and success?
There is. It's called Possibility Thinking, because research validates, for every initiative, mindset matters. Possibility thinking primes the mindset ahead of a goal using easy to learn and apply brain-based techniques. The Science of Possibility session, guides leaders to discover their sense of what's possible, and what's blocking it. There are several, but a significant factor that obstructs possibility thinking is prolonged stress, there's no optimum performance in this state and it has serious physical health consequences.
This session gives leaders the practical tools to transform stress and underlying mental blockages. The return exceeds the investment with a measurable improvement in possibility that nets tangible results. Instead of just envisioning an immediate goal or the distant future .... leaders now have the neuroscience understanding, skills and the tools ... to build it.
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"Grin and bear it," isn't an effective or sustainable resilience building strategy. Yet leaders face new challenges, sometimes with outmoded tools.
This Building Resilience program turns the topic upside down.
It changes the conversation.
To transform daunting challenges and build resilience that sticks, understanding the foundational complexities of the brain is a must. Otherwise it's a contest between evolutionary factors that thwart every attempt at building resilience.
"Bad is stronger than good," is one such factor. This famous piece of research, tells us, that our evolutionary hardwiring is to focus more attention on bad things which are easily retrievable in our memory.
But when we're wired to focus on bad things, is building resilience even possible? Yes, it is.
You don't need to be held hostage to evolution. The truth is, the brain can change, when you know how. In Building Resilience, this program introduces daring new approaches outside of the ordinary paradigms. It focuses on the neuroscience of resilience.
With supporting research and brain-based techniques, each participant learns the steps necessary to change the brain. It outlines the neurological conditions that promote clear thinking, a sense of calm amidst the storm, mindset necessary in astute decision making and a critical component of resilience. Leaders gain new perspectives on the brain and specific ways to leverage its power to apply to challenges within the organization for visible outcomes.
This neuroscience approach to resilience puts the practical tools into the hands of each leader. It gives them concrete new methods to face new challenges in the post pandemic era, during times of uncertainty and transition. No leader or team member should ever have to, "Grin and bear it," ... when they can possess the resilience to thrive.
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