Srini Pillay, M.D., CEO: NeuroBusiness Group, Harvard-Trained Psychiatrist, Brain Researcher, Leadership Development Expert | Read Bio <!–
Radu Manolescu
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• 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
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Radu is the Managing Partner of K.M.Trust & Partners which he co-founded in 2006 and who became, starting year two, one of the leading executive search and leadership development firms on the Romanian market. K.M.Trust’s mission is to help companies live their values while having a memorable positive impact in the lives of the people we work with.
Few years ago he initiated an education focused NGO – AVE (www.ave-romania.ro )together with some wonderful people. The common objective is to involve the business community in order to contribute more to, and work together with schools and authorities in order to realize the ambition of having the Romanian education system recognized as among the top 10 in Europe by 2035. Today AVE works closely with the most relevant NGOs from education who assumed the same mission and goals for a faster impact and scalability.
He also believes that all of us should contribute towards the introduction of SEL (Social Emotional Learning in schools hoping that in 20-30 years to have kinder, more compassionate and more responsible adults be it executives, doctors, professors or workers.
Radu has a University Degree from ASE Bucharest, International Economical Relations Faculty. He has postgraduate studies in marketing /Athens and attended Executive Programs at INSEAD, Harvard Business School, Singularity University and Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne where he was also Visiting Lecturer.
Mihai Popa-Radu is a leadership development expert and coach, awarded twice the title of Romanian Executive Coach of the Year.
Mihai has been practicing mindfulness-based techniques since 2008. He has trained with various meditation teachers including the Dalai Lama, Stephen Batchelor (UK), Bill Karelis (USA), Jeff Shore (Japan), ven Gonsar Rinpoche (Tibet – Switzerland), ven Tan Dhammavidu (Thailand). He deepened his metition practive going to retreats in Austria, Hungary, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Romania and Thailand.
In 2009 Mihai created the Seeds for Happiness centre for the development of human potential (www.seedsforhappiness.ro), which is the first organization in Romania to consistently promote the study and practice of mindfulness. Since 2012 he has been offering meditation sessions and programs including Mindfulness for Busy People, the 1-week Happy Mind Retreat in Tuscany – Italy, and was the co-organizer and keynote speaker at the first mindfulness conference hosted in Romania in 2015.
In 2014 he created the Mindfulness Institute (www.mindin.ro) , which aims to promote the benefits of mindfulness in organizations.
He is the translator in the Romanian language of two books by Alan Watts, Devin-o ceea ce esti (“Become what You Are”) si Intelepciunea Nesigurantei (“The Wisdom of Insecurity”), published at Herald publishing house.
Also In partnership with Editura Herald, Mihai sponsored and/or promoted through the Mindfulness Institute the publication of Romanian translations of a series of important titles in mindfulness, including Mindfulness in plain English by Bhante Gunaratana, Wherever You go there You Are by J Kabat Zinn, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by S. Suzuki and Thoughts without a Thinker by Mark Epstein.
Lately, Mihai was instrumental in the publishing in Romanian language at editura Vellant of two important titles: Organizatia Reinventata (“Reinventing Organizations”) by Frederic Laloux and Mindful Business (“Mindful Work”) by David Gelles (best-seller New York Times)
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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 24: #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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| May 1: #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 8: #3 |
Your Body Armor: Why the Mind-Body Connection is More Important Than EverA 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 15: #4 |
Leading During and After the Pandemic: What’s Different Now?Dr. 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 22: #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 29: #6 |
Putting It All Together: A Day in The Life of a Pandemic ThriverDr. Srini Pillay 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 12pm EST / 9am PST via live broadcast. Each webinar is 60 minutes in length and will be recorded.
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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.
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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.
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