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Full Day | Max. 12 Participants
Workshop Outcomes
- Understand how stress alters cognition and decision-making
- Build personal and team-level stress resilience
- Improve recovery speed and emotional regulation
- Apply tools for clarity under pressure
- Design stress-resilient environments and workflows
Topics Covered
- Acute vs chronic stress and the brain
- Cognitive narrowing and performance drop-off
- Recovery cycles and vagal tone
- Tools: breathwork, pacing, interoceptive awareness, cold exposure
- Team resilience and leadership under pressure
Location
- Willing to work remote
- Willing to work interstate
- Willing to work internationally
How can this workshop be delivered?
- Face to face
Overview
For leaders managing high-stakes, high-stress work
Stress doesn’t just affect mood—it impairs memory, narrows focus, and erodes decision quality. In roles where mistakes have real consequences, understanding the neurobiology of stress isn’t optional—it’s essential.
This course is designed for professionals operating under pressure: emergency responders, military personnel, healthcare leaders, and high-stakes executives. Participants will learn how stress impacts brain function, how to stay cognitively sharp in volatile environments, and how to recover faster—both mentally and physiologically.
This is not vague mindfulness training. It’s evidence-based resilience, built from neuroscience, psychophysiology, and elite performance psychology.
Workshop Outcomes
- Understand how stress alters cognition and decision-making
- Build personal and team-level stress resilience
- Improve recovery speed and emotional regulation
- Apply tools for clarity under pressure
- Design stress-resilient environments and workflows
Topics Covered
- Acute vs chronic stress and the brain
- Cognitive narrowing and performance drop-off
- Recovery cycles and vagal tone
- Tools: breathwork, pacing, interoceptive awareness, cold exposure
- Team resilience and leadership under pressure
Who is this workshop for
Emergency services, disaster recovery teams, military and paramilitary units, and execs under sustained pressure.
Handouts/materials provided
All materials provided
What to bring
Nothing required
Facilitator
About the facilitator
Brad Dunn is a software executive with over 25 years of leadership experience across the Asia-Pacific region. He has held executive roles in multiple public companies and served as the CEO of two others. Brad has also published articles in magazines and industry journals on contemporary management culture and has extensive, hands-on experience transforming organisations toward stronger, market-leading positions.
Now specialising in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and decision science, Brad focuses on helping individuals enhance the quality of their decisions in uncertain and complex environments. He designs and delivers workshops that enable leaders to think strategically, reduce cognitive bias, and adapt to complexity. His work integrates behavioural science with systems thinking, with particular attention to how disruptions from artificial intelligence are reshaping organisational dynamics. Brad’s goal is to equip teams with the tools to make clearer, faster, and more rational decisions in high-stakes contexts.
Key Expertise
- Product Management
- Software Leadership
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Science
Industry Focus
- Software
- Applied Sciences
About the facilitator
Brad Dunn is a software executive with over 25 years of leadership experience across the Asia-Pacific region. He has held executive roles in multiple public companies and served as the CEO of two others. Brad has also published articles in magazines and industry journals on contemporary management culture and has extensive, hands-on experience transforming organisations toward stronger, market-leading positions.
Now specialising in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and decision science, Brad focuses on helping individuals enhance the quality of their decisions in uncertain and complex environments. He designs and delivers workshops that enable leaders to think strategically, reduce cognitive bias, and adapt to complexity. His work integrates behavioural science with systems thinking, with particular attention to how disruptions from artificial intelligence are reshaping organisational dynamics. Brad’s goal is to equip teams with the tools to make clearer, faster, and more rational decisions in high-stakes contexts.
Key Expertise
- Product Management
- Software Leadership
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Science
Industry Focus
- Software
- Applied Sciences
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