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QELi, in partnership with Michelle Loch and Leading Humans, offers a suite of neuroscience leadership programs for individual and whole-school professional development. Programs are designed and facilitated by Michelle Loch, renowned nationally as a leader in neuroscience and a communications expert in human motivation, powerful conversations and self-leadership.

Michelle is working with educators across Australia, sharing her expertise and experience having studied under, and worked for, Dr David Rock, the founder of the US based Neuroleadership Institute. She is helping educators to unpack how neuroscience informs educators’ decision making and practices and is providing practical tips for achieving optimal brain performance. Michelle’s programs can be customised to suit the needs of your team and school context.

www.qeli.qld.edu.au +61 7 3007 5222 [email protected]

Neuroscience Leadership Programs

Leading with SubstanceTM

The Leading Humans Philosophy

Leading humans will never be easy, but it can be easier. We live in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world that now has five generations in the workplace, all with different ways of looking at the world, with different wants and needs, and with different skills and intelligences. In leadership, we have a fundamental problem - leaders lead humans and yet we don’t truly understand what it means to be human or how to function at our best as humans, or more accurately, we haven’t prioritised this knowledge and understanding in developing as leaders.

In this VUCA world, leaders can no longer rely on technical expertise to engage, motivate and realise the potential of teams, colleagues and themselves. Effective leadership in the future will require leaders to change and develop their underlying skills base. To be sustainable, organisations and the leaders within them, must become better versions of themselves, defined by Leading Humans as Leaders of SubstanceTM.

You are a Leader of SubstanceTM when:

You make things happen through exceptional execution and an understanding of human productivity principles

People want to work with and for you. Your self leadership is exemplary and capability to build relationships, engage and motivate is outstanding

You create insight and exert positive influence through powerful conversations and help people grow and develop

You effectively and respectfully influence the thinking and behavior of those around you, based on your own thought leadership

Leaders who are qualified to lead in the VUCA world must:

Understand how the human brain really works

Know how to get the best from their brain

Understand the brain’s potential and limitations

Learn leadership strategies that work with the human brain, not against it


How to Register

Program Cost: $700 + GST

Register online at www.qeli.qld.edu.au/neuroscience-of-leadership

Neuroscience of Leadership

Understanding brain science gives leaders an unfair advantage in people management. Rather than reacting to the behaviour of those around them, imagine if leaders could diagnose it? Imagine if you could scientifically assess why people do what they do (including yourself) and then be able to prescribe more useful, more powerful and more influential responses and resolutions to the normal people challenges leaders deal with – to become leaders of substance.

Neuroscience of Leadership is a one-day interactive workshop that explores the neuroscience of leadership, human motivation and influence and will enable you to develop a better way to engage, motivate and collaborate with others.

The Workshop Will Consider:

• Why leading humans is so hard• A new leadership model for model for a new age• How humans are wired• How are you wired (your brain will be mapped!)• How to rewire• The 6Ds of habit change

Program Structure

Phase 1 Phase 2

Program preparation45 minute online PRISM Brain

Map Inventory AssessmentOne-day workshop

Sydney 31 Jul - 6 Aug 20197 Aug 2019

9:00am - 4:00pm

Brisbane 16 Sep - 13 Oct 201914 Oct 2019

9:00am - 4:00pm

Leaders spend 80% of their time in conversation, and 37% of time in meetings. This presents an opportunity to influence through powerful conversation. A powerful conversation is one where ‘all parties leave with different thinking than when they came’ – a coaching-style conversation that has been insightful, influential, motivational and useful – and that takes skill.

Rewired Conversations is a two-day interactive workshop that unpacks six B.E.T.T.E.R conversation habits and six super powerful conversations to enable you to take your conversational mastery to a whole new level using a brain-based approach.

Program pre-requisites: it is recommended that you complete Neuroscience of Leadership. However, this is not essential.

Six B.E.T.T.E.R Conversation Habits:• Brain-friendly• Emotionally balanced• Toward focused• Tested assumptions• Encouraging effort• Responsibility clear

Rewired Conversations

Program Structure

Phase 1 Phase 2

Program preparation Pre-readings

Two-day workshop

Brisbane 24 Jun - 23 Jul 201924 Jul - 25 Jul 2019

9:00am - 4:00pm

Brisbane 20 Sep - 27 Oct 201928 Oct - 29 Oct 2019

9:00am - 4:00pm

How to Register


Register online at www.qeli.qld.edu.au/rewired-conversations

The program reminded me about the importance of ‘space’ to reflect on my own capacity as a leader and the impact of our responses to events, situations and people.

– Neuroscience of Leadership Program participant

Excellent professional development focused on positive change. I found the practical application most valuable. – Neuroscience of Leadership

Program participant



The smartest teams are those with the least amount of ‘process loss’. For teams to achieve high performance, they need to have the right mindset and learn how to have the right conversations. NeuroPerformance is a two-day interactive workshop that introduces you to the three key pillars of NeuroPerformance. You will walk away with a plan on how you can support your colleagues to form high performing teams. Schools often find it very valuable to send teaching teams and leadership teams to this workshop.

The workshop will consider:• The science of high performing teams• Three key elements of NeuroPerformance• Operating from a growth mindset• Embracing feedback• Engaging in powerful performance conversations

We have learned more about the human brain in the last 25 years than in all history. This new science is challenging the way we think about how we communicate and how we lead. We know that we get easily distracted, that we can be non-productive in conversations and meetings, and that quality thinking is desirable yet rarely achieved. We also know that ‘insight’ is key to changes in behaviour and in fostering accountability. We need to change the way we have conversations and structure meetings. They need to be more A.W.E.S.O.M.E!

Awesome Conversations is a one-day interactive workshop that explores the neuroscience of insight, A.W.E.S.O.M.E conversation framework, what to do when conversations go ‘wrong’ and how to have candid conversations.

Find out more

In 2019, Michelle is delivering this program as a whole-school or leadership team initiative. Awesome Conversations will be available to educators across Australia from January 2020.

It is recommended that participants have previously completed Neuroscience of Leadership and Rewired Conversations. However, this is not essential.

To find out more about this program visit:

www.qeli.qld.edu.au/awesome-conversations

Awesome Conversations

NeuroPerformance

How to Register


Venue: QELi, Level 14, 201 Charlotte Street, Brisbane

Register online at www.qeli.qld.edu.au/neuroperformance


Program Structure

Phase 1 Phase 2

Program preparation Pre-readings

Two-day workshop

19 Aug - 16 Sep 201917 Sep - 18 Sep 2019

9:00am - 4:00pm

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About Michelle Loch, CEO and Founder, Leading Humans

Michelle Loch is a renowned thought leader, speaker, author and mentor who is passionate about leadership and conversational mastery. She is an expert in neuroleadership, a field of study that takes the latest in social cognitive neuroscience and applies it in a practical way to the art of leadership. Michelle melds her expertise in the neuroscience of human motivation, self-leadership and powerful conversations to support her clients to rewire their leadership approach to meet the needs and demands of modern humans and the modern world. She works with partners to create leaders who have more leadership capacity, who develop the confidence to step up into awesome leadership, and who have the capability and skill to level up into awesome leadership.

Michelle has over 25 years’ experience across a number of industries and businesses and has worked in senior management roles in Suncorp and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Michelle studied under, and then worked for Dr David Rock, the founder of the US based Neuroleadership Institute and one of the world’s most prominent thought leaders in the neuroleadership space. Michelle is a PCC Qualified Coach with the International Coach Federation, a Certified Conversational Intelligence Coach, a Distinction qualified Mind Gym Coach, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Diploma in Teaching, and a Certificate of Neuroleadership.

We need to become humans who are grounded and focused, who can more fully understand how to create the right environment to get the best from ourselves and others. By harnessing the power of neuroplasticity, we have more influence over the thinking and behavioural habits of others (and ourselves) than we ever thought possible.

– Michelle Loch, CEO and Founder, Leading Humans

About QELi

QELi is an innovative not-for-profit institute committed to delivering excellence in leadership by supporting education leaders from government and non-government sectors, across Australia and internationally, to establish a strong vision, improve student outcomes and lead change in their school context and wider school communities.

We support educators at every level – from teachers to principals and system leaders – and corporate services and school support staff to develop leadership capabilities, maximise their potential and reach their leadership goals.

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