Friederike Fabritius MS, is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, neuroscientist, and trailblazer in the field of neuroleadership. Her brain-based leadership programs have transformed how Fortune 500  executives think, innovate, and navigate change. Neuroscientist and trailblazer in Neuroleadership. Author of WSJ bestselling The Brain-Friendly Workplace: Why Talented People Quit and How to Get Them to Stay and of the award-winning book The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier.

Friederike Fabritius’s Session Descriptions:

How does your brain work? And how can you use this knowledge to improve your wellbeing and performance? The keynotes of Friederike Fabritius are based on the latest discoveries from social cognitive neuroscience. With an entertaining mix of humor and practicality, they provide science-based insights that you can put into practice immediately in order to work and live smarter, better, and happier. Friederike‘s mission is to engage and entertain – while enriching‘s people‘s lives with practical tools and techniques. Everyone who attends her sessions comes away with at least one thing they can do differently right away.

Friederike‘s talent is to take complex scientific insights and make them easy and accessible to anyone. Friederike is known for her exceptional hybrid keynotes, delivered from her state-of-the-art broadcasting studio. Clients are consistently amazed by the production value that Friederike delivers with her innovative virtual events. Although her most popular topics deal with performance, wellbeing, learning, collaboration, innovation, and change, Friederike can customize a keynote to fit the theme of your event or address the specific challenges your team is facing right now

Embracing Change and Uncertainty with Emotional Resilience
In the fast-paced world of corporate leadership, it seems like the only constant is change. Learning how to effectively lead teams through the turbulence of uncertainty and change in an effective and brain-friendly way is vital. The key lies in mastering the art of emotional resilience. Your ability to lead well through change is not just a skill; it’s a transformative power.
Join neuroscientist and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Friederike Fabritius for a compelling keynote that delves into practical strategies and real-world insights to empower you to lead effectively during times of change. Learn how to not just survive, but thrive amidst change and uncertainty, ensuring your team’s resilience and success.

This keynote is based on the latest insights from social cognitive neuroscience. With an entertaining and highly interactive mix of humor and practicality, you will gain science-based insights that you can put into practice right away to work smarter, better, and happier.
Key Takeaways
-Is change ever a good thing for the brain?
-How your brain responds to change and uncertainty
-Neurosignatures – why do people deal with change and uncertainty so differently?
-Communicating effectively under uncertainty
-Supporting your team during challenging times
-Optimal individual stress points
-Key factors for resilience from a neuroscience perspective
-Sustainable strategies for leading during change and uncertainty

The Creative Mind: Exploring the Neuroscience of Innovation
Innovation isn’t some random, spontaneous event – it’s SCIENCE!
When the environment is just right, our brains are primed for innovation and deep, insightful thinking. Neuroscience has shown us exactly what is needed for our brains to reach a moment of “Aha!” insight and peak creativity!
The good news? You can create this environment practically on demand! Join neuroscientist and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Friederike Fabritius for this compelling keynote that will show you exactly what to do.
This keynote is based on the latest insights from social cognitive neuroscience. With an entertaining and highly interactive mix of humor and practicality, you will gain science-based insights that you can put into practice right away to work smarter, better, and happier.

Key Takeaways
-What happens during the brain during creative insights
-What distinguishes highly creative people from others
-How innovation and creativity can be fostered and cultivated
-The neuroanatomy of AHA insights
-The role of emotions for innovation
-Brain hacks for innovating
-Gamma oscillations and their role for creativity and insight

Jumpstart Your Learning with Neuroscience
Did you know that there is a science to learning?
Join neuroscientist and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Friederike Fabritius for a compelling keynote that shows you exactly how you can harness neuroscience to learn better. It’s easy to pick up new habits and learn new things once we have the right science-based tools.
By making your learning Brain-Friendly, you can learn five times faster. The science of neuroplasticity shows us that you can teach an old dog new tricks, and you can apply these learnings right away. It’s easy.
This keynote is based on the latest insights from social cognitive neuroscience. With an entertaining and highly interactive mix of humor and practicality, you will gain science-based insights that you can put into practice right away to work smarter, better, and happier.

Key Takeaways
-What neuroplasticity is and means
-The role of the hippocampus, the amygdala and the basal ganglia in learning
-Lifelong learning and how to access it
-Growth mindset and flexibility
-How to trigger your dopamine system
-Neurohacks for faster, and better, learning
-What a habit is and how they are formed
-What brain systems are engaged when learning and how to use them to your advantage

Fun, Fear, and Focus ®
How does the brain work? And how can you use this knowledge to transform your well-being and performance? Even better, how can you reach your peak performance? Well, don’t worry – this is the keynote you have been WAITING for!
Using the latest insights from social cognitive neuroscience and with her reliable entertaining mix of humour and practicality, neuroscientist and bestselling author Friederike Fabritius shows her audiences how to work and live smarter, better, and happier.
By showing you how to put these science-based insights into practice in the right way, Friederike guides you on the path to thriving within your unique neurosignature. When you embrace Neurosignature Diversity and utilize the fail-safe combination of Fun, Fear, and Focus ®, you will learn what it means to truly live and work in a Brain-Friendly way, and to excel in the hybrid world!
Key Takeaways
-Performance culture and growth mindset
-The neuroscience of the flow state
The value of neurosignature diversity
-Finding optimal stress levels
-Why fun matters and how to harness its power at work
-Accessing Flow and how to be 5 times more productive
-How much fear should there be in the workplace?
-How the prefrontal cortex, the limbic system and the basal ganglia interact
-Learning to focus in a world full of distractions
-How a team can reach social flow

The Social Brain: The Ten Commandments of Great Relationships
What is the single most important thing that your team needs for continued growth and success? Trust. The way we work and how we relate to our teams has changed dramatically in recent years and with the rise of the hybrid world, trust and collaboration have never been more critical. As high-level executives and corporate professionals, understanding how our brains are wired for social interaction is key to unlocking the potential of these hybrid work environments.
Join neuroscientist and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Friederike Fabritius for a compelling keynote that explores the neuroscience of trust, how to enhance team collaboration, and why a psychologically safe workplace is of utmost importance. Gain valuable insights into how human brains are inherently wired to be social and how this knowledge can be harnessed to increase trust, innovation, and high-performance teamwork.
This keynote is based on the latest insights from social cognitive neuroscience. With an entertaining and highly interactive mix of humor and practicality, you will gain science-based insights that you can put into practice right away to work smarter, better, and happier.
Key Takeaways
-Why your brain needs social connection and simple tips for connecting to anyone
-Why trust is linked to profitability and longevity
-Learn about the inner workings of your social brain: oxytocin, mirror neurons, and tachykinin
-How to foster psychological safety and effectively manage hybrid teams
-How to overcome – and leverage – similarity bias
-The link between empathy and stress, and overcoming “us versus them” silo thinking
-Vulnerability – when it works and when it backfires
-The neurohacks to use for succeeding in hybrid work

A Hybrid Approach

The virtual world is here to stay, and Friederike Fabritius is a pro when it comes to incorporating new technologies into her work that truly engage her audiences and keep them on her toes. “Never boring” is her motto, as it’s especially important to keep virtual audiences glued to the screen rather than zoning out.

Friederike has built a state-of-the-art video studio with several cameras, a green-screen, and a professional sound system. The centerpiece is a NewTek Tricaster Mini 4K, which allows her to effortlessly encode, stream, and mix according to her clients’ needs just as you would expect from a professional TV show. To illustrate her presentation, she uses a mix of PowerPoint and live scribbles on her iPad and can add overlays, videos, and other visuals on demand. Friederike’s clients are amazed to see this level of professionalism, and many note that she has by far the best virtual speaking setup they have seen so far.

Bio:

Friederike Fabritius is a neuroscientist, keynote speaker, and a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She works with executives of Fortune 500 companies around the globe to transform how they think, innovate, and navigate change.

Ever since she can remember, Friederike Fabritius has been curious about the way the brain works and why people behave the way they do. That’s why she chose to become a neuroscientist. But when she left the laboratory to take a job in management consulting, she was shocked to see the way that people in the business world were working. It wasn’t in line with what she knew from neuroscience about how the brain works best. Not even close.

That experience led her on a journey through neuroscience literature in pursuit of answers to some pressing questions. How can we work better? What are the principles that lead to better learning, improved collaboration, and the highest performance? And how can we make them applicable to busy executives?

Ever since then, Friederike Fabritius has worked with C-level executives from more than 164 countries in creating brain-friendly ways of working. It also led her to write her award-winning book The Leading Brain, which was published by Random House and has been translated internationally. Her new book The Brain-Friendly Workplace: Why talented people quit and how to get them to stay is a Wall Street Journal bestseller and brings the novel concept of Neurosignature Diversity into the workplace. She speaks 6 languages.