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About This Speaker
Dr. Brynn Winegard is a world-renowned human behavior expert, ranking in the global top three for business applications. Synthesizing a decade of Fortune 100 corporate experience managing multi-billion dollar brands at Pfizer, Nestlé, and Johnson & Johnson with elite scientific credentials, Dr. Brynn perfectly bridges the gap between frontier brain science and everyday real-world organizational strategy.
A multiaward- winning professor, she holds a PhD and MBA from the Schulich School of Business, an MSc from Harvard Medical School, and retains an active Research Fellowship at the Harvard-McLean Institute of Coaching. Dr. Brynn’s high-energy keynotes transform complex neuroscience into highly practical workday tools, empowering high-achieving corporate audiences worldwide to achieve sustainable performance without burnout.
Brynn Winegard is the author of the Award-Winning book, The Working Brain.
Dr. Winegard's booking fee range is $15,000 - $20,000
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Beyond Resilience: Brainscience for Developing an Antifragile Mindset 
Workforces face unprecedented disruption, distress, and change. Moving far beyond traditional "growth mindset" concepts, this flagship keynote introduces true cognitive antifragility. Utilizing Dr. Brynn's proprietary, evidence-based MERIT Framework (Move, Eat, Rest, Interact, Think), audiences learn the exact physiological levers required to capitalize on daily stress, unlock rapid focus, and build workplace cultures that actively flourish through volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous circumstances.
Attendees Learn:
The Brain's Ultradian Cycle: Understand the physiological and neurochemical cycle your brain operates on, and how to schedule daily activities around the four phases of this productivity cycle so your workday and your brain are in sync. Learn to recognize which phase of the Basic Rest-Activity Cycle (BRAC) your brain is in throughout the day, and what work is best suited to each phase.
Dr. Brynn's MERIT Framework: The five levers you can control for optimizing cognitive performance and mental wellness — Move, Eat, Rest, Interact, Think. Grounded in the established pillars of mind-body and lifestyle medicine, this framework offers brain-based best practices for exercise, nutrition, sleep, socializing, and mentality, free of common myths.
What They Can & Can't Control: How external factors like culture, politics, and past experience affect work performance — and why the factors within your direct control (movement, diet, rest, interactions, and mindset) matter even more.
Antifragile Mindset: How to move beyond fixed and growth mindsets toward building a brain that doesn't just withstand challenge, but grows stronger through it.
Mindset Shift: Why post-traumatic growth is just as possible — and far more valuable — than post-traumatic stress, and how mindset determines outcomes in volatile, high-stakes environments.
Attendees Learn:
The Brain's Ultradian Cycle: Understand the physiological and neurochemical cycle your brain operates on, and how to schedule daily activities around the four phases of this productivity cycle so your workday and your brain are in sync. Learn to recognize which phase of the Basic Rest-Activity Cycle (BRAC) your brain is in throughout the day, and what work is best suited to each phase.
Dr. Brynn's MERIT Framework: The five levers you can control for optimizing cognitive performance and mental wellness — Move, Eat, Rest, Interact, Think. Grounded in the established pillars of mind-body and lifestyle medicine, this framework offers brain-based best practices for exercise, nutrition, sleep, socializing, and mentality, free of common myths.
What They Can & Can't Control: How external factors like culture, politics, and past experience affect work performance — and why the factors within your direct control (movement, diet, rest, interactions, and mindset) matter even more.
Antifragile Mindset: How to move beyond fixed and growth mindsets toward building a brain that doesn't just withstand challenge, but grows stronger through it.
Mindset Shift: Why post-traumatic growth is just as possible — and far more valuable — than post-traumatic stress, and how mindset determines outcomes in volatile, high-stakes environments.
Neuroselling: The Brainscience of Influence, Persuasion & Gaining Non-Coercive Compliance
Commercial success hinges on aligning with how the human brain naturally decides. Dr. Brynn's presentation dives into neuroselling, revealing how to bypass the conscious mind and tap into the subconscious drivers of persuasion — forgoing logic and language in favor of emotional triggers, social cues, and imagery. Dispelling common myths, she unveils six key "brainscience secrets" that unlock the "3 B's" of influence: believing, buying in, and buying. This fast-paced, interactive session is built for salespeople, marketers, and client-facing professionals looking to drive stronger business outcomes and non-coercive buy-in.
Attendees Learn:
Understanding Your Customer: Learn how the brain processes information and makes decisions, so you can tailor communication to be more persuasive, engaging, and effective in both client and team settings.
Presentation & Negotiation Skills: Gain practical techniques for pitching ideas and negotiating outcomes that resonate with the subconscious drivers of behavior, leading to more success closing deals and securing buy-in.
Stronger Customer Relationships: Understand how to build trust and rapport with clients on a subconscious level, driving greater satisfaction, loyalty, and retention through more empathetic, personalized engagement.
Creative Objection Handling: Tap into the power of emotions and subconscious drivers to unlock more innovative, creative approaches to problem-solving and objection handling.
Self-Confidence & Personal Power: Understand how your own brain works and how to influence others, building greater confidence, engagement, and initiative in every interaction.
Conflict Resolution: Learn how emotions and biases drive conflict, equipping you with more effective strategies for communication and de-escalation in the workplace.
Attendees Learn:
Understanding Your Customer: Learn how the brain processes information and makes decisions, so you can tailor communication to be more persuasive, engaging, and effective in both client and team settings.
Presentation & Negotiation Skills: Gain practical techniques for pitching ideas and negotiating outcomes that resonate with the subconscious drivers of behavior, leading to more success closing deals and securing buy-in.
Stronger Customer Relationships: Understand how to build trust and rapport with clients on a subconscious level, driving greater satisfaction, loyalty, and retention through more empathetic, personalized engagement.
Creative Objection Handling: Tap into the power of emotions and subconscious drivers to unlock more innovative, creative approaches to problem-solving and objection handling.
Self-Confidence & Personal Power: Understand how your own brain works and how to influence others, building greater confidence, engagement, and initiative in every interaction.
Conflict Resolution: Learn how emotions and biases drive conflict, equipping you with more effective strategies for communication and de-escalation in the workplace.
Neuroleadership: The Science of Interpersonal Influence & Executive Leadership Presence
True leadership presence isn't an art form — it's a physiological reality. This keynote unlocks the science of leadership presence and followership, showing how the brain perceives influence and helping leaders develop "executive charisma" and master persuasive communication. Going beyond traditional leadership tactics, the session draws on neuroscience to reveal what truly motivates and energizes people, equipping managers and aspiring leaders with practical tools for self-presentation that earn non-coerced compliance.
Attendees Learn:
Self-Awareness & Personal Influence: Understand your own biases and develop stronger skills of influence and persuasion, improving communication and confidence in personal relationships as well as work.
Improved Interpersonal Influence & Communication: Learn to navigate disagreements more effectively, communicate assertively, build rapport, and find common ground for better conflict resolution and team communication.
Boosted Management & Leadership Capabilities: Discover how to inspire and motivate yourself and others, fostering a more positive, energetic work ethic that drives engagement, productivity, and team satisfaction.
Individual Skill Development: Gain valuable communication, influence, and self-presentation skills that benefit your career and professional development, even outside a formal leadership role.
Improved Self-Confidence & Personal Power: Master the science of self-presentation to build greater assertiveness, resilience, and a stronger overall presence in the workplace.
Personal Development & Growth: Apply the insights from this training beyond work — building communication skills, self-confidence, and the ability to influence and inspire others in all areas of life.
Enhanced Influence & Communication: Understand how the brain perceives influence and persuasion to become more effective across situations, from securing buy-in to negotiating and building stronger relationships.
Build Followership: Learn how to galvanize followership and engage others, strengthening teamwork, rapport, and collaboration.
Improved Management Skills: Develop the leadership presence and executive charisma that ease the transition from individual contributor to manager, opening doors to promotion and career advancement.
Enhanced Leadership Skills: Even without a formal leadership title, build the ability to influence others, motivate action, and foster a positive, productive work environment.
Attendees Learn:
Self-Awareness & Personal Influence: Understand your own biases and develop stronger skills of influence and persuasion, improving communication and confidence in personal relationships as well as work.
Improved Interpersonal Influence & Communication: Learn to navigate disagreements more effectively, communicate assertively, build rapport, and find common ground for better conflict resolution and team communication.
Boosted Management & Leadership Capabilities: Discover how to inspire and motivate yourself and others, fostering a more positive, energetic work ethic that drives engagement, productivity, and team satisfaction.
Individual Skill Development: Gain valuable communication, influence, and self-presentation skills that benefit your career and professional development, even outside a formal leadership role.
Improved Self-Confidence & Personal Power: Master the science of self-presentation to build greater assertiveness, resilience, and a stronger overall presence in the workplace.
Personal Development & Growth: Apply the insights from this training beyond work — building communication skills, self-confidence, and the ability to influence and inspire others in all areas of life.
Enhanced Influence & Communication: Understand how the brain perceives influence and persuasion to become more effective across situations, from securing buy-in to negotiating and building stronger relationships.
Build Followership: Learn how to galvanize followership and engage others, strengthening teamwork, rapport, and collaboration.
Improved Management Skills: Develop the leadership presence and executive charisma that ease the transition from individual contributor to manager, opening doors to promotion and career advancement.
Enhanced Leadership Skills: Even without a formal leadership title, build the ability to influence others, motivate action, and foster a positive, productive work environment.
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