Brain-Based Leadership: How Awareness, Curiosity, and Presence Transform the Way You Lead

Brain-Based Leadership: How Awareness, Curiosity, and Presence Transform the Way You Lead

Guest: Tracy Benson, Top 1% LinkedIn Coach & Brain-Based Leadership Expert

Host: Julie Riga

Overview

Join Julie Riga as she sits down with Tracy Benson, a top 1% LinkedIn coach and brain-based leadership expert who has spent over three decades helping senior leaders create clarity, alignment, and real performance. Tracy blends neuroscience, leadership psychology, and practical business strategy to give leaders tools they can use immediately to transform teams, organizations, and results. Discover how awareness, curiosity, and presence can revolutionize the way you lead.

Brain-Based Leadership: How Awareness, Curiosity, and Presence Transform the Way You Lead

The Three Ingredients for Leadership Success:

1. Awareness Understanding what drives behavior beneath conscious awareness. Tracy reveals that 90% of brain function is unconscious yet rules how we show up. Learn to recognize reactive emotional states before they control you.

2. Curiosity The two magic words that shift you out of negative emotional states: "I wonder." Tracy explains why you cannot be angry and curious at the same time, making curiosity the entrance ramp to co-creation and discovery.

3. Presence & Perspective Discover foveal vs. peripheral view and how narrow focus blocks solutions. When you step back to include peripheral vision, all the ideas, solutions, and magic become available.

Key Insights:

• The Power of "I Wonder": Two simple words that immediately shift you out of reactive states and open the palette of possibilities
• Meta Programs: Understanding the 50+ mental shortcuts that run how you show up and why time-focused and possibility-focused people clash
• Projection & Self-Discovery: How triggers reveal your unconscious programming and what you see in others exists in you

Memorable Quotes:

"This is the most powerful engine on the face of the planet, and we never got taught how to use it."

"We cannot be angry and curious at the same time."

"The palette of possibilities - in the moment you have all of these options, but we need to be in remembrance that those are available to us."

"We can't see the label on the jar from inside the jar."

Practical Leadership Tools:

• Wear a bead bracelet and snap it when you feel reactive
• Say "I wonder" to shift your brain state instantly
• Practice viewing challenges from multiple distances
• Visit art museums to train your brain to shift perspective

Key Takeaways:

1. Your brain is powerful, but we were never taught how to use it
2. Curiosity shifts everything - you cannot be angry and curious simultaneously
3. Perspective creates possibilities - step back from problems to see solutions
4. Behaviors that trigger you reveal your own unconscious patterns
5. Small leadership adjustments create massive organizational impact

Connect with Tracy Benson: LinkedIn: Tracy Benson Free Tool: DM Tracy on LinkedIn with "expand" to receive a complimentary foveal vs. peripheral view tool

Perfect for leaders who want to understand how their brain works and use neuroscience to transform their leadership presence, decision-making, and relationships.

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