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Sahar  Yousef

Sahar Yousef

Cognitive neuroscientist, Speaker

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Sahar Yousef

Cognitive neuroscientist, Speaker

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Traveling from:
California

Why Book

  • Dr Yousef is a cognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley with 10 years of combined research and management experience.
  • She creates customized training programs by curating scientifically validated techniques and effective habit-forming systems to actually change the way people, teams, and organizations work.
  • The aim of every engagement is always to inspire, instill, and maintain changes to the way we work as individuals and on a team.

Biography

Dr. Sahar Yousef is a cognitive neuroscientist and faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. After spending over a decade doing Department of Defense research on neuroplasticity and how to improve memory, attention, and overall human performance in as little as 7 weeks, Sahar now researches and teaches busy leaders and their teams how to be more productive and effective at work. At Berkeley, Sahar runs the Becoming Superhuman Lab (featured in Forbes and Business Insider) and teaches one of the most popular MBA classes, called “Becoming Superhuman: The Science of Productivity and Performance”. Sahar has become one of the world’s leading experts on cognitive training and is featured as a top scientist in the Headspace wellbeing app (used by over 2 million people every day). In 2021, Sahar produced a multi-part video series with John Legend on the science of music and its impact on our focus and emotions. She was also recently selected by Thinkers50 as one of the top 30 thinkers to watch throughout 2024 and the year ahead.
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Programs

THE SCIENCE OF OPTIMIZING PRODUCTIVITY AND PERFORMANCE

Key Learnings:

  • The science behind “video fatigue” and simple tools for your team to use to combat digital exhaustion + diplomatically opt out of meetings
  • Leading research on the three biggest mistakes of productivity and performance
  • The scientific reasons WHY people commonly make those mistakes
  • How to increase your team’s productivity by 25% without increasing hours worked
WELLBEING MATTERS: HOW TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE STRESS AND PREVENT BURNOUT

Key Learnings:

  • Why burnout became officially classified as a disease in 2019 by the World Health Organization
  • What distinguishes burnout from excess stress or depression
  • Leading indicators and a simple tool you can use to quickly assess your individual or team’s burnout risk
  • How to reverse the slow damage burnout does to the brain and body
  • Practical frameworks for beating burnout, including the Demand-Control-Support model
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP: UNDERSTANDING AND OPTIMIZING YOUR PERSONAL ROUTINE

Key Learnings:

  • Finding your optimal sleep window (based on your biological chronotype)
  • Practical ways we can improve our sleep quality and fall asleep faster
  • Sleep myths, the five stages of sleep, and how to take the perfect break
  • Sleep deprivation, Alzheimer’s, cognitive decline and why sleep is the best insurance policy for lifespan and health span
  • The most effective breaks according to science and strategies for avoiding the afternoon dip
DESIGN BETTER HABITS: THE SCIENCE OF SUSTAINED BEHAVIOR CHANGE

Key Learnings:

  • The most common mistakes people typically make when forming new habits
  • The proven CCRR framework to break bad habits and make new habits stick
  • How to identify triggers that launch you into unproductive or stress-inducing behaviors
  • How to design your environment to automatically increase the probability of productive habits
THE SCIENCE OF INFLUENCE, PERSUASION, AND EXECUTIVE PRESENCE

Key Learnings:

  • The neurobiological basis of trust and human connection and how to maximize psychological safety with direct reports
  • The factors that influence how, why, and when people say “yes”
  • How to reliably regulate yourself into an ideal brain-state to maximize executive presence and communicate effectively
  • Advanced techniques for in-situ brain-state and emotional regulation
  • The science of mirroring and how a leader’s emotions set the tone for the room
  • Strengthening your executive presence and how to “command a room” in person or over video
  • What changes when influencing remotely vs. in-person
HOW TO OPTIMIZE YOUR ROUTINE AND MANAGE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY IN A HYBRID WORLD

Key Learnings:

  • How to optimize your days in the office vs. your days working remotely
  • The neuroscience of rapidly developing a new routine and the science behind the commute
  • Why you will burn more energy in the office and what to do about it
  • How to navigate the distractions that come with an in-person workplace
  • Research-backed strategies to set effective boundaries when you have a flexible (or unpredictable) schedule
WOMEN’S ADVANCEMENT: THE SCIENCE OF EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT FEEDBACK AND COMMUNICATION

Key Learnings

  • Learn the core drivers of your behavioral patterns, emotional triggers, and how to use this information to improve your communication, feedback, team dynamics, and overall leadership skills
  • Hone your ability to read others’ emotions to influence successfully
  • Research-backed best practices for delivering critical feedback
  • How to create connection, build trust, and inspire
  • Simple story architecture to save time while strengthening your message
  • Emotionally intelligent responses to challenging environments

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