BrainSmart LEADERSHIP & LEARNING
Keynote speaker Anette Prehn is an expert and pioneer in the field of NeuroLeadership. She makes the complicated field of neuroscience research and social psychology understandable for all types of audiences. And she helps clients develop their mindset, make change stick, lead, and collaborate. All her motivational talks are spiced up with humor and thorough research.
Why you should book Anette Prehn
- Anette presents unforgettable keynotes that are insightful and inspiring.
- Your audience will gain useful tools and knowledge that can be easily applied. On top of that they interact with each other and strengthen their sense of belonging with one another.
- Anette is one of the most requested and popular keynote speakers in Denmark.
Anette Prehn is a social scientist (MA), leadership trainer, motivational speaker and a bestselling author of more than 20 books and mini books.
BrainSmart LEADERSHIP & LEARNING
Keynote speaker Anette Prehn is an expert and pioneer in the field of NeuroLeadership. She makes the complicated field of neuroscience research and social psychology understandable for all types of audiences. And she helps clients develop their mindset, make change stick, lead, and collaborate. All her motivational talks are spiced up with humor and thorough research.
Why you should book Anette Prehn
- Anette presents unforgettable keynotes that are insightful and inspiring.
- Your audience will gain useful tools and knowledge that can be easily applied. On top of that they interact with each other and strengthen their sense of belonging with one another.
- Anette is one of the most requested and popular keynote speakers in Denmark.
Anette Prehn is a social scientist (MA), leadership trainer, motivational speaker and a bestselling author of more than 20 books and mini books.
BRAINSMART LEADERSHIP
How often do you come across a leadership book that leaders keep reading? A book they call their “Bible”, metaphorically speaking.
Such a book is BrainSmart Leadership. It opens up NeuroLeadership in an original way leaving its mark by being easy to understand, remember and apply.
Anette Prehn encourages readers to explore the chapters that seem appealing, like one would use a cookery book. Most people get an overall sense of a cookery book and then dive in for a closer look according to their interests, motivation, and the situation. Read more about the book here.
From this bestselling book, you’ll learn:
- Why “good” advice often goes unheeded and why feedback is so easily misconstrued
- How to promote a flexible mindset when you and everyone around you are stuck in old habits
- How to unburden the brain in a busy life and prevent negative stress
- How to benefit from becoming an expert at handling the brain’s threat response
- How to turn procrastination into productive aha! Moments
- Why emotions should be taken with a pinch of salt, while values should be taken deadly seriously
- How your approach to leadership influences the brains of your employees
- How to make your organisation – and this includes you – more BrainSmart
“In a specific situation, our insight into the rules of the brain saved us six months’ work. I simply can’t put it any more plainly – this book is an excellent investment.”
J.T. Ravn, Warrant Officer, Royal Danish Air Force
“A wonderful book! Anette Prehn has a gift for provoking leaders’ thought patterns and habits. She writes brilliantly, making complex facts about the brain fun, accessible and applicable. World class!”
Trine Brahm, Head of Leadership & Talent, Novozymes
“Anette Prehn offers unique insight into how we, as leaders, can help our teams and ourselves to tackle change and challenges.”
Michael S. Kehlet, VP Talent, LEGO Group
“Provocative and well communicated. A wise and entertaining book on a complex subject.”
Ulla Bechsgaard, reviewer for Jyllands-Posten
PLAY YOUR BRAIN – THE BOOK
Do you want to:
- Turn your brain into an ally not an opponent?
- Create that crucial readiness to change yourself and others?
- Build a stronger repertoire in whatever you do?
Then get to know the eight keys on your inner piano. Award-winning trainer Anette Prehn and neuroscience researcher Kjeld Fredens introduce a groundbreaking approach to coaching yourself: through knowledge of how your brain works, combined with a playful, flexible, musical attitude in working along with it. Here are simple yet powerful tools for achieving the goals in your life and career.
“A pioneer work in the emerging field of applied neuroscience, Play Your Brain likens the brain to a jazz band in its capacity to improvise and make new connections. The authors show how to maximise its enormous potential, through immensely thoughtful, practical and brain-based suggestions. Highly recommended!”
Paul T. Brown, Visiting Professor in Organisational Neuroscience, London South Bank University
“This book humanises science, by exploring how things work in relation to how we work. The brain as jazz band is a delightful analogy a collection of cells that plays and improvises in harmony.“
Stephen Hough, classical pianist, composer & writer
FLIP - the upcoming book
"FLIP" is an offshoot of the playful, experimental approach to practical plasticity that has guided Anette Prehn's work since 2005. She has developed the trademarked method Framestorm® which helps to grow the human "reframing muscle", i.e. the ability to identify a wider range of meaningful perspectives than the ones we habitually apply to situations.
Knowing how to Framestorm - and understanding the 10 underlying neurological principles - is key to embracing diversity with genuine respect of one another (and not just as yet another box to be ticked). It is also key to emotion regulation and seeing opportunities and gifts during difficult times.
"FLIP" aims to be your manual for life: an invaluable companion to help you thrive and find meaning in the many changes, future fog and friction of the 21st century. It consists of 3 steps, 5 fingers and 50 perspectives.
"This book contains a revolutionary method to seeing relationships and challenges from new angles. With her Framestorm® method, Anette Prehn takes the reader by the hand precisely where you are stuck in a rigid position, where your thoughts run in circles and you can't see any possibilities. The book conveys in an easily accessible and refreshing way how the brain works. It contains lots of good points and cases - and deserves to become a bestseller with its clever, logical and sympathetic guidance."
Marianne Breds Geoffroy, specialist in psychiatry (PhD)
"A comprehensive Woodchucks Guidebook on relationships, self-perception, and not least, how one can flip—reinterpret—reality to fare better in the workplace and in private life."
From the 5-star review by Ulla Bechsgaard from Jyllands-Posten
So far, "FLIP" has been published in Danish. Anette Prehn is open to connect with international publishers re this title Feel free to reach out!
The Five Fingers of Framestorm®
- Thumb: The gifts
- Index finger: The values
- Middle finger: In someone else's shoes
- Ring finger: Humour
- Little finger: Learning
BRAINSMART HABIT CHANGE
The brain follows certain rules, but most of us are unaware of these. However, when you want to change habits it is crucial to understand and respect these rules. You can thus strengthen the relevant connections in your brain that will help you achieve the habit change you wish for.
Many people pursue habit change by fighting their old habits. This is BrainClumsy and works against the rules of the brain.
Other people forget to take stock of their core values when aiming for habit change. Their approach becomes situational rather than rooted in identity.
Habit change isn’t always the answer. Sometimes you are better off reframing a current habit – or to make the most of the habits already “installed” in you.
Anette Prehn’s course on BrainSmart habit change helps you and your organisation grow more useful habits with the brain’s neuroplasticity in mind. The art lies in turning the brain into an ally rather than an opponent.
Contact Anette Prehn (MA) and Centre for Brain-Based Leadership and Learning on info@hjernesmart.dk if you want to be able to change habits in BrainSmart ways.
BrainSmart Leadership
Only few people understand that the brain follow ground rules it follows and even fewer know how to put them into practice. The result of this is that many leaders and employees are missing out on useful learning, performance, innovation, and emotion regulation.
Do you want to become a BrainSmart leader? Do you want insight into how to create a working environment that minimise negative stress, fear and old negative habits?
With this keynote, you will learn the underlying reasons for the brain’s key responses and how to regulate these.
Create change mindsets
Are you and your organisation ready for change?
Resistance to change can be both time-consuming and energy-draining. 70% of all corporate change efforts fail. Good intentions do not equal successful execution if you want to change the culture/mindset of your workplace.
The main questions when introducing change is: How do you calm the threat response in the brain when triggered? What does it take to make people’s brains “play along” so they see the point in the change, believe they can succeed with it and that the change indeed is a route worth traveling? And how do you nurture mindsets that are open to change, yet rooted in inner calm and the bigger perspective?
Make change stick
Can you teach old dogs new tricks? And if so – how do you make change stick?
Self-directed neuroplasticity is the new darling of neuroscience – and for a good reason. It shows us that the brain changes constantly according to how it is used and what we give attention to.
In this keynote, Anette will teach you how to master Attention Choreography as a leader – when interacting with others but along with yourself.
You will gain insight into how to use your “willpower muscle” in BrainSmart ways that allow change to truly stick.
How to boost collaboration in brain-based ways
Micromessages rule social interaction. Yet, most of us are unaware of how to adjust these subtle, non-verbal messages so that they empower the performance of team members and sharpen our mental abilities.
A lot of us are unsure of how to address a team member who displays bodily signals undermining the authority of others.
Micromessages can drain or boost your brain capacity and productivity. However, very few are skilled in reading and adjusting them in constructive ways.
Through this keynote you and your team will invest in getting greater results and increased wellbeing through this underestimated source of power.
How to lead – With the brain in mind
It is easy to turn your brain into an opponent. It follows certain rules and if we don’t know them, many things will seem more ”uphill” and difficult than they need to be.
On the other hand, getting and applying the hard data from neuroscience about how the brain actually functions boosts your relational power, collaboration and impact substantially.
Find out how much the brain matters to your daily interactions and results with this insightful and inspiring keynote.
Learn and acquire BrainSmart tricks that will develop your leadership skills and relational impact right away.
Feedback with the Brain in Mind
Why is “good” advice frequently ignored? And what makes feedback so often misunderstood, sometimes even opposed?
It is worth knowing the rules of the brain when it comes to human interaction. They hold the key to understanding how to turn feedback into a psychologically safe endeavour that encourages openness in both/all parties.
However, it can easily go wrong:
- Are you being perceived to be in the other person’s “out-group”?
- What can make the amygdala, the alarm bell of the brain, hijack key “executive functions” in the brain before, during and after feedback?
- How do you stimulate real learning and new behaviour?
- How do you ensure that you yourself have a flexible mindset when touching upon sensitive content in your feedback?
HOW TO NUTURE COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY IN A VUCA-ENVIRONMENT
What is needed to perform and thrive in ever-changing environments, facing a future that is unsure to say the least?
Professions across the world are faced with this situation and looking for powerful ways to cope. Anette Prehn contributes to leadership conferences across the world – like here in Indonesia.
Anette Prehn integrates the power of the Framestorm® method in her keynotes on change. It is essential to grow our cognitive flexibility in the 21st century, i.e. our ability to view a challenge from numerous, meaningful perspectives.
Cognitive flexibility is a crucially important function in the brain, especially when experiencing VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). It correlates with commercial success. The individual who learns how to Framestorm® gain enormous freedom and strength when coping with life.