Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders

Chapter 7. Coaching Brain Regions

In the book so far, we have introduced some of the critical concepts that you, as a coach or organizational developer, can use to communicate with leaders. In my experience teaching and doing this work, leaders and followers are very receptive to interventions placed within the neural framework because this framework is concrete and can be grasped more than some “emotional” and “organizational psychology” frameworks. Effective coaching involves integrating all of these approaches and having as many tools available as necessary to reach the leader.

Although we have implicated many brain regions and concepts in the various stages and aspects of coaching managers, leaders, and followers, one question remains: Can ...