Helena Boschi.
Dr Helena Boschi is a psychologist and neuroscientist who bridges the gap between brain science and business performance.
Uniquely positioned at the intersection of science and real-world application, Helena uses her business experience to translate cutting-edge and complex scientific research into practical strategies that strengthen leadership, decision-making, resilience and collaboration across teams and organisations.
Having worked at senior leadership level for global organisations including British Airways, Accenture, Serono (now Merck KGaA) and Shire Pharmaceuticals and now as Founder of Chequered Leopard, Helena advises executive teams on embedding behavioural science into leadership and culture. Author of the best-selling Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Our Brain to Get the Best Out of Ourselves and Others (2020), she combines scientific rigour with real-world business insight to deliver genuine transformation.
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Exceptional leadership requires an understanding of how the brain drives perception, emotion, and decision-making. Helena reveals how leaders can build trust, connection, and engagement by working with the brain’s natural wiring, not against it, in complex and fast-changing environments.
Key Insights:
The neural foundations of empathy, trust and social cohesion, and their impact on leadership.
The neurobiology of language: how words literally shape minds.
Practical ways to ignite energy, enhance collaboration and energise multi-generational teams .
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Every decision we make is filtered through unconscious neural shortcuts that shape judgement and perception. Helena’s session integrates neuroscience and behavioural science to explore how these mechanisms operate, and how we can make better and braver decisions under pressure.
Key Insights:
The neuroscience of bias, uncovering the hidden traps that distort perception and reasoning
How to balance intuitive and analytical processes in uncertain situations.
Frameworks for improving risk evaluation, group decision dynamics and strategic choices.
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The brain is a dynamic, adaptive system, driven by neuroplasticity, constantly rewiring itself in response to new information, experiences and environments. In today’s high-pressure world of relentless and rising demands, our neural systems are frequently pushed to their limits. Drawing on neuroscience and psychology, Helena explores how neuroplasticity allows us to strengthen and optimise brain function and maintain cognitive performance.
Key Insights:
The neurobiology of stress identifying and resetting the brain’s threat response
Strengthening emotional regulation and cognitive flexibility under pressure
Designing organisational environments that sustain psychological wellbeing and high performance
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Innovation begins in the brain. We have an extraordinary capacity for learning and creativity, but at the same time we struggle with anything too new. In this energising session, Helena explores how to unlock and access our natural curiosity and imagination, and how organisations can harness these to drive creative performance.
Key Insights:
The neurocognitive barriers to creativity and how to overcome fear, cognitive rigidity and our natural drive to conform.
How curiosity activates the brain’s reward system, promotes psychological safety and enhances learning agility.
Practical methods for fostering experimentation, stretching cognitive capability and embedding innovative methods into daily routines.
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