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Heather Berlin
Unlock better decision-making, creativity, and leadership with Heather Berlin, cognitive neuroscience keynote speaker. Heather works with organizations to apply brain science to workplace performance and innovation, hosting PBS Nova's #1 podcast and authoring The Fine Art of Losing Control.
Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist who reveals how understanding the brain's mechanics can sharpen decision-making, unlock creativity, and improve leadership across organizations.
Berlin hosts PBS Nova's Your Brain and the Science of Perception Box podcast, which reached #1 in Science on Apple Podcasts during its first season. She is also the author of The Fine Art of Losing Control, a book exploring the science behind impulse, creativity, and self-regulation.
Her research bridges the gap between laboratory neuroscience and everyday workplace challenges. Berlin translates complex brain science into practical strategies that help leaders structure environments for higher productivity and innovation. She explains why forcing creativity backfires, how instincts can be recruited for better self-control, and where human cognition still outperforms artificial intelligence. Her work gives organizations a scientific framework for getting more from their teams without relying on guesswork.
Audiences leave Berlin's sessions with concrete tools: techniques for triggering creative thinking by working with the brain rather than against it, methods for using impulse control to improve decision-making under pressure, and a clear understanding of which tasks to trust to human judgment versus AI. These takeaways are grounded in peer-reviewed research and drawn from her years studying the neuroscience of consciousness and behavior.
Book Heather Berlin to give your audience the brain science behind better leadership, sharper creativity, and smarter decisions.
Berlin translates peer-reviewed neuroscience into practical frameworks for decision-making and creative output, giving leadership teams a scientific edge on productivity without the usual trial and error. Her PBS hosting and research background mean she delivers concrete cognitive tools rather than theory, particularly valuable for organisations restructuring how teams approach innovation and high-pressure choices.
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Heather Berlin translates peer-reviewed neuroscience research into practical frameworks, drawing on her laboratory work studying consciousness and behaviour to give audiences concrete tools for decision-making, creativity, and self-regulation.
Heather Berlin's sessions address creativity and the neuroscience behind it, decision-making under pressure, impulse control and self-regulation, human cognition versus artificial intelligence, and leadership and workplace productivity. She is the author of The Fine Art of Losing Control and hosts PBS Nova's Your Brain, which reached number one in Science on Apple Podcasts in its first season.
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