Toby Groves Social cognitive scientist, speaker and writer.

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• Assuming Responsibility: The Science of Great Leadership
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  Assuming Responsibility: The Science of Great Leadership

  Leaderships skills have never been more important, in all industries and at all levels, whether executive or front-line employee. Organizations succeed in meaningful ways when its individual members have ability to inspire action, build trust, solve complex problems, coordinate effective teams, and resolve contentious conflicts without damaging important relationships. This requires a deep understanding of human motivation, emotional intelligence, and nuances of cultural psychology. This session teaches a powerful model that allows attendees to build their own core leadership skills as well as the psychology of performance and motivation and the social psychology of organizational behavior.

• Beyond the Code: Ethics in The Real World
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  Beyond the Code: Ethics in The Real World

  This innovative and interactive presentation taps the fields of neuroscience, psychology and even biology to understand the point where science, emotion, and critical thinking interact. Instead of critiquing how our minds are supposed to work, we will delve inside the fascinating world of how our minds actually work when we face difficult dilemmas with competing goals. The audience will experience startling, interactive experiments that reveal how we miss the obvious and how our minds conjure up false perceptions out of thin air. We will review why outdated ethical models centered around rule-based codes have failed and what research indicates does improve individual and organizational ethical reasoning.

• Brain Games for Experts: Cognitive Training for Critical Decision Makers
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  Brain Games for Experts: Cognitive Training for Critical Decision Makers

  Expect the unexpected in this highly entertaining and educational session! Audience members will participate in live, interactive experiments that exploit subconscious thinking errors with shocking results. Participants will be stunned to find the extent to which their perceptions and decisions are affected by invisible errors and will learn cognitive exercises that can dramatically improve the effectiveness of their reasoning processes.

• Ethical Intelligence
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  Ethical Intelligence

  Ethical intelligence is the level of one’s ability to understand, develop and regulate their own ethical reasoning. It includes ability to recognize and interpret ethical elements of a situation, determine best actions, and follow-through on ethical commitments. While emotional intelligence involves the ability to connect with feelings, ethical intelligence focuses on how you interpret your feelings and make decisions from an ethical perspective. The session tackles difficult questions beginning with whether it’s even possible to teach ethics in the first place.

• Metathinking: Advanced Critical Thinking
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  Metathinking: Advanced Critical Thinking

  Metathinking is a leading-edge, neuroscience-based approach to achieve radical improvements in critical thinking. Metathinking strategies provide greater transparency of our thinking processes and uncover hidden influences that affect our reasoning. Attendees will learn advanced methods of attention, awareness and thought regulation for increased adaptability and resilience. Metathinking boosts core confidence, stimulates strong leadership and communication skills, and advances problem-solving abilities.

• Public Speaking and Advanced Communication Skills Masterclass
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  Public Speaking and Advanced Communication Skills Masterclass

  Learn the art of storytelling and the science of effective message-crafting and delivery. This session is continuously interactive, engaging and entertaining for any audience size and for any skill or experience level. Attendees will learn advanced techniques that help them adapt to different cultures, inspire and persuade audiences, and communicate with clarity and confidence. Focused subjects will include communication skills for leaders, public speaking, negotiation, improvisation, active listening and much more.

• Social Immune Systems: The Science of Diversity and Inclusion
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  Social Immune Systems: The Science of Diversity and Inclusion

  Diversity in social networks stimulates learning, prompts flexible thinking, and boosts error detection. Teams that are diverse experience higher satisfaction levels, more effective deliberation processes, improved decision-making, and heightened performance. Taking advantage of these benefits requires individual group members to understand how diversity and inclusion impacts team dynamics and why it’s important to them. Organizational culture should inspire individual ownership of roles in developing group norms and attitudes crucial for embracing diversity

• The New Psychology of Fraud
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  The New Psychology of Fraud

  This session features the latest behavioral science, interactive audience experiments, and compelling real-life stories to disrupt everything you thought you knew about fraud. It will spur you to challenge “sacred cows” of the industry and help you develop better thinking approaches to detect, deter, or investigate fraud, waste and abuse. Learn why many of our basic assumptions about fraud are flawed, why some widely accepted investigative practices are more harmful than helpful, and how auditors and investigators sometimes unwittingly assist fraud schemes