The Leadership Accelerator: How Neuroscience Defines Inspirational Business Leaders

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, providing leadership instruction often results in staff expressing psychological impacts. Teams are less connected, working in hybrid environments, and often entire teams are reluctant to return to a physical environment in favour of working independently and maintaining connection through online mechanisms. More leaders are stepping into leadership positions by virtue of their role or responsibilities, which has created a need to develop new skills and knowledge. This shift moves them beyond task-based approaches toward incorporating neuroscience into their leadership practice.

This has hastened the need to explore new communication methods, close generational differences and leverage cutting-edge neuroscience in leadership. By doing so, leaders can better understand how to optimise the workforce, communicate more effectively and lead teams with the brain in mind.

This book gives leaders, CEOs, managers and directors a comprehensive practical guide using the latest information about neurocare in leadership to evaluate their effectiveness through tools such as our evidence-based leadership capability framework.

This book explores topics that, when considered together, transform how leaders think about their effectiveness. This book explores the concepts required to be successful - enabling both employees to feel validated and leaders to uplift their capabilities while maintaining their well-being and mental health in leadership.

Tracey Harris is the CEO of Amovita International and a leading speaker and professional on organizational excellence and maintaining high-performance outcomes in the workplace. Tracey has worked across the private sector, government, and non-government organizations for nearly 30 years. From a family of business owners, she is driven to support leaders and business owners to understand how to use key capabilities for success.

Tracey has worked in leadership and executive roles throughout her career and has worked as a senior ministerial advisor in Australia. She leads the Strategy and Executive Consulting Division within Amovita and is a professional mediator and consultant across Australia and internationally.

With an interest in research on high-performance leadership and neurosocial science, Tracey has developed a series of coaching and leadership models that are widely used in Australia. She is also a PhD Candidate with Griffith University researching leadership and supervisor capability.

Elyse Leonard holds degrees in both psychology and social work and her career has spanned both clinical and professional roles across the non-government, government, and corporate sectors. She specializes in complex and vicarious trauma, clinical mental health, and organizational excellence. She uses a range of clinical and professional approaches including neuro-social science, trauma-informed, and transactional analysis approaches to support clients to enhance wellness and high performance in the workplace. Elyse develops and facilitates training in neuro-wellness, professional identity, and organizational excellence. She presents at local and national conferences and leads the organization’s Field Education Placement Program.