A smart, science-based approach to retaining your talent and making the world of work a better place. Right now, we're confrontinga once-in-a-century opportunity to create a future of work that's better for everyone. The old corporate standard of extreme hours, sleep deprivation, and nonstop travel is dead. And knowledge workers don't miss it. They're expecting today's leaders to create the workplace of tomorrow: a hybrid ecosystem that thrives on flexibility, diversity of thought, and enables every employee to reach peak performance. In The Brain-Friendly Workplace, Friederike Fabritius offers a science-based and field-tested blueprint for tomorrow's workplace. Through her easy-to-follow program, entire organizations are discovering how small, inexpensive changes can lead to advantages like better employee performance, higher job satisfaction, and stronger talent retention.
Friederike Fabritius, M.S. is a neuroscientist and trailblazer in the field of neuroleadership. Her brain-based leadership programs have transformed how Fortune 500 executives think, innovate, and navigate change. A thought leader and keynote speaker, Friederike is known for engaging global audiences at organizations like Google, Ernst & Young (EY), Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Addecco, Accenture, Deloitte, BMW, Bayer, SAP, Harvard Business Review, Trivago, and Audi. Friederike serves on the Council of the German Academy for Technology, which advises the government on new technologies, innovation, and artificial intelligence. She is the author of the award-winning book The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier. Friederike is fluent in six languages and lives with her husband and five children in Heidelberg, Germany.
A smart, science-based approach to retaining your talent and making the world of work a better place.
Millennials want to be performing at their peak - in a constant state of flow. Achieving this should be every organisation's top priority to retain diverse talent. Friederike, shares practical tools for leaders to make the transition from hustle culture to an outcome driven one. The key driver of humanity of work.--Anitta Krishan, Head of People & Strategy at TikTok This book is a great read for anyone involved in group decision making. It enhanced my understanding of diversity while highlighting how important it is. It focuses on taking care of yourself and each other, having fun, and why one should eat more chocolate. It made the work place come alive as a place you want to be.--Jeff Furman, Ben and Jerry's Board of Directors, Emeritus Fighting burnout, finding focus, and giving your employees time to rest and recharge. It's obvious that the old ways aren't doing it. Friederike's book provides exciting new ways of rethinking the workplace that help both businesses and their employees to thrive.--Stephan Aarstol, author of The Five-Hour Workday: Live Differently, Unlock Productivity, and Find Happiness Friederike's bold new book is smart, friendly, and science-based. It's filled with practical suggestions for how to make the workplace more inclusive, productive, and rewarding.--Aidan McCullen, author of Undisruptable and host of The Innovation Show. In The Brain Friendly Workplace, Friederike Fabritius reframes the so-called Great Resignation as a crisis of meaning, purpose and care. She seizes on the idea that our present distress is also an incredibly opportunity to change our bad work habits into healthy work habits using brain-friendly practices.--Kelly Leonard, Learning and Applied Improvisation at Second City Works It's clear that the modern workplace isn't working for many people and that changes are imperative. Friederike outlines some practical science-based steps to get us from here to there: to cultivate a world that works well for all of us.--Riaz Shah, Global Learning Leader, EY
