Speaking
Cascadance presentations leave audiences feeling inspired, intrigued, and convinced there is a better way to produce great work.
A polished public speaker, Janet Crawford has presented extensively on neuroscience-informed leadership and its relevance for generating corporate cultures equipped to adeptly respond to modern business challenges. Known for her engaging style, she possesses a rare ability to translate complex scientific ideas into accessible, thought-provoking and immediately useful practices.
Janet Crawford’s Keynotes are…
- Universally relevant. Everyone wants to know why people do what they do.
- New and different. Guaranteed to provoke new insight and keep people awake.
- Not a fad. Our basic biology hasn’t changed much in the last 10,000 years.
- Customized to the needs of your organization or group.
- The ideal way to quickly introduce large numbers of people to brain-based leadership.
Partial List of Topics
- What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us to the Future
A fascinating look at how human ingenuity has changed how we live through history. Discover the role automatic programming and instinct play in human behavior, how the environments we’ve created don’t always bring out the best of our biology, and what you can do about it. - The Brain-Friendly Organization
An engaging tour of the human brain, meant to provoke and incite curiosity. How can we consciously create business cultures and leadership behaviors to maximize the brain functions we want more of and avoid the behaviors we don’t? - Using Your Brain For Change
An introduction to the neuroscience of behavior change. Why do some efforts to change stick, while others, despite our best intentions, fail? As a leader, what can you do to ensure that shift happens? - Emotions, Engagement and the Bottom Line
What are emotions and what function do they serve? Leaders often say they’d like to get emotions out of the picture, but the reality is that emotions play a key role in every aspect of business life. Learn how to manage emotions better and produce the emotional climates that make good work possible. - Coaching on the Brain
Does your leadership know how to coach? How to provoke deep learning and empower employees to think for themselves? This keynote combines basic neuroscience principles with the fundamentals of effective coaching for powerful results. - The Entrepreneurial Brain
What allows people to ask a new question? To see the world from a fresh perspective? Learn how innovative thought occurs at a brain level and what you can do to set up environments that foster it. - The Neuroscience of Diversity
Did you know the brain is naturally prejudiced? And it also requires novelty and new perspectives to generate innovate thought and sustainable adaptation. Learn how to recognize and overcome brain tendencies that get in the way of what we most need!
View a list of Janet’s past speaking engagements
