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Science of Learning and Behaviour
with Dr Judi Newman

Our brain evolved over 50000 years ago for the purpose of the survival in the Stone Age. The brain takes thousands of years to evolve so modern humans have very much the same brain as the Palaeolithic man. This has significant implications for leadership and learning in the workplace across every sector or context. A deep understanding of how our brain thinks, learns and remembers will provide strategies for decision making that align with the way our brain best operatives for powerful leadership and learning insights and practices.

There is a gap between what neuroscience shows and what organisations do. Leaders and teachers can learn how to adjust their behaviours and practices to align with the physiology, not against it, to strengthen their influence in the classroom. The new research of the neuroplastician draws knowledge from the fields of neurophysiology, neurolinguistics, neuroplasticity and neurocoaching to inform evidence based practice. Applied social neuroscience has much to offer the future of educational leadership of learning.

Dr Judi Newman

Dr. Judi Newman, PhD is the Director of The Academy of Organisational Neuroscience Australia and is an expert in applied neuroscience, a field of study that takes the latest in social cognitive neuroscience research and applies it to leadership, motivation, learning and influence.  Her mission is to boost influence through strengthening leadership capacity and learning impact, through a neuroscience lens and sharing evidence-based practice. Specifically, her work is focussed on working with school principals and corporate leaders to establish brain-wise schools or companies to build high performance teams who view themselves as leaders. Her unique approach, combining what we know from psychology, education and neuroscience can give your organisation the edge and is evident in her academic research and work background across these three areas. She is the only consultant in Australia that has a PhD in social applied neuroscience, is a former high school principal with over thirty years of experience in education, a masters in learning management, has worked as an executive leadership coach and additionally, has a psychology background. Judi has written four books and is currently writing a leadership book.