Engineering Influence and Forgetting the Soft Skills

Soft skills are overrated and dangerously oversold! The stigma with soft skills comes from the soft definition of these skills and gets confounded broadly with "being a people's person."  What if you could engineer getting more influence, driving a stronger culture, and being more effective as a leader? This talk takes a hard look into the biology of the brain and using the psychological underpinnings to make us truly exceptional. We will explore the relationship between AI and leadership by drawing insights from Work and Organizational Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Neuropsychology. You will walk away with new, concrete tools to apply in your daily interactions to increase collaboration, commitment, and ownership across your organization.

Interview:

What is the focus of your work?

As Co-founder of Bravely, my core focus is elevating leadership at Tech companies to the highest possible level. This means being excellent on the content and strong on relationships.

What’s the motivation for your talk?

My motivation comes from the deep belief that working with the brain leads to smarter choices and stronger relationships. Knowledge is power; knowing how to work with your own brain is a superpower that will literally improve every aspect of your life -  work and private. 

Who is your talk for?

Everybody is welcome. Whether you're struggling to build relationships; influence others; deal with your emotions; handle challenging people; say no; give or receive feedback; speak up - if you know how your brain works in challenging situations, you will gain access to the tools to regulate it and change your behaviour.

What do you want someone to walk away with from your presentation?

Concrete skills to achieve your desired results in your own behaviour and/or the responses of others.

What do you think is the next big disruption in software?

Humanity. The loss of psychological safety and trust in inter-human relationships due to the blurred lines between AI and humanity. 


Speaker

Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg

Co-founder of @Bravely, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker, 12+ Years Experience Enabling High Performing Teams and Leaders

Charlotte is a Business Psychologist, trainer and coach specialized in the people aspect at Tech companies. She has +12 years experience in facilitating healthy cultures to enable high performing teams and leaders.  She is Co-founder of Bravely: the training and coaching solution for Tech Companies. Bravely’s mission is to bring empathy back into the workplace.

Charlotte’s passion is helping companies to build a strong and resilient culture in an ever-changing environment; a culture that is both performance driven and people focused. She has supported +50 international Start-up and Scale-up companies in their growth, some examples include Bynder, Datasnipper and Wetransfer.

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Date

Wednesday Nov 20 / 11:45AM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Ballroom BC

Topics

Psychology Tech Leadership Communication Psychological Safety Trust

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