By Chris Weller
With the rapid pace of technological change — artificial intelligence, in particular — it can feel like the world is a little less recognizable with each passing day.
It’s up to leaders to help their teams respond to these changes, offering new skills and systems that make workforces more adaptable and resilient, rather than overwhelmed and stuck.
Join us at the 2025 NeuroLeadership Summit, where leading scientists and industry practitioners converge to share best practices, new ideas, and helpful strategies for thriving through complexity. On November 12-13, this virtual global event will offer insight into the most critical issues facing leaders today:
- Upholding accountability amidst constant change.
- Building new and better habits at scale.
- Collaborating with AI to enhance — not dull — human thinking.
- Evolving DEI strategy within organizations.
Here’s a handful of session previews to see firsthand what to expect at this year’s NeuroLeadership Summit.
Register now to secure your tickets, as spots are selling fast. Registration includes full virtual access to both days of the 2025 NeuroLeadership Summit and on-demand recordings of all sessions. NLI Corporate Members receive additional discounts and benefits.
Leadership Today: Thrive Through Complexity
By most estimates, change is accelerating year over year. New technologies, systems, strategies, and expectations are replacing existing ways of working in what feels like real time — and it’s all happening faster and faster. Stretched thin and wary of the next shift, what is a burned-out organization to do?
This session will explore the challenges leaders and their teams face from a cognitive perspective. What factors weigh most heavily on people? What have we learned in the last decade that can serve us now? How is AI helping or hurting these working conditions? And perhaps most importantly, what can be done to ensure teams can thrive through all this complexity?
What Will Leadership Look Like In 5 Years?
As AI becomes everyone’s coworker, it’s essential that leaders upskill their teams to handle AI-assisted tasks. That means helping people move from one end of the AI fluency spectrum to the other — from AI resistors and the AI ambivalent to AI users and AI fluent. Without a solid foundation for how to work with AI, teams risk outsourcing their thinking to the platforms that have been shown to dull our cognition when it should be enhancing it.
Attendees of this session will also hear from world-class practitioners who have been using proprietary AI at work and studying its effects. The resulting picture will be a window into the future: how leaders should be thinking about the changing nature of their roles based on the uncertainties of modern work.
Toward a Real Science of Habit Activation at Scale
When your brain is so stressed it feels like it’s on fire, what are the habits you and your team default to? The answer to that question will tell you what kind of culture you’re building in high-stakes, high-pressure moments — much like those we’re facing today.
This session focuses on the science of behavior change across an organization. It introduces core principles from research around social learning, the right way to build habits, at scale, and how AI can help facilitate shared behavior change as well as sustainment.
Using AI Towards Better Thinking
As generative AI platforms proliferate, we must remain cautious not to hand over the keys to our thinking. GenAI is still prone to mistakes, hallucinations, and bias. Research is also showing that asking GenAI for answers can make us less creative and worse critical thinkers. The trick, as AI makes its way into the workplace, is to use the technology in ways that enhance thinking.
That’s what this session will teach attendees. We will explore the science of cognition to explain why AI is so tempting but ultimately a poor substitute for real thought, and introduce key habits that every leader should be focusing on to make sure AI amplifies human cognition and helps teams produce their best results.
Register now to secure your tickets, as spots are selling fast. Registration includes full virtual access to both days of the 2025 NeuroLeadership Summit and on-demand recordings of all sessions. NLI Corporate Members receive additional discounts and benefits.
