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Encourage Your Brain: Ideas to Help Your Brain Believe in Your Dreams
With April Fools approaching, it sparked my thinking about how our brains can play tricks on us. One headline I read two days after April 1st was something about Vail Resorts banning the sale of alcohol at all of its 19 properties. My first reaction was, “Really?!...
What Does International Travel Do for the Brain?
I am preparing for quite a bit of international travel in the next 18 months. I'll be going to Paris for eight or nine trips every other month as part of my Executive Master in Change program through INSEAD. With that, I was curious, what does international travel do...
Meet Leadership Coach Alumni, Cassie Leonard
The Academies is pleased to introduce you to an alumnus of one of our neuroscience-based leadership coach courses, Cassie Leonard. Cassie completed the Certified Executive and Leadership Development Coach (CELDC) course and is currently participating in the Certified...
4 Things Your Brain Needs to Learn and Remember
If you're a coach, a leader, a manager, or in any type of role where you're involved in supporting behavior change in others, it’s important to be aware of what goes into learning, memory, and retention. Today, I’m exploring four things your brain needs to learn and...
When Your Brain Can’t Quite Decide
Have you ever been to a point where you need to make a decision, but you just don't feel like you have what you need to make that decision when your brain can’t quite decide on its own? Typically what happens when we're in a state of indecision is that we want to get...
Meet Leadership Coaching Alumni, Patricia Gonzalez
The Academies is pleased to introduce you to an alumni of our ICF-approved, neuroscience-based Level 1 Program, Patricia Gonzalez. Patricia completed the Certified Executive & Leadership Development Coach (CELDC) course and The Academies Certified Strengths Coach...
Freeze-Flock Before Fight-Flight
We're all familiar with Fight-Flight. We know that being in this physiological state causes us to lose some of the smart parts of our thinking and our relational skills. And yet, it's a very natural biological reaction. There is also a very natural biological reaction...
4 Benefits of The Academies Level 1 & Level 2 Coaching Programs
Becoming a certified coach is an incredibly rewarding experience. It requires dedication, tenacity, passion, compassion, and drive to succeed. We recognize all you’re bringing to this process, and we want you to find a program that FITS YOU and gives you a meaningful...
Your Unconscious Brain Is in Control
If you are growing as a leader, a manager, a coach, a human being, there are new behaviors that you will want to bring online and master so that you can be successful. And yet, if you're like most people, those new behaviors may not be easy for you to master. You...
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