About Dr. Brynn
Dr. Brynn Winegard is a multiple-award-winning Professor, Professional Keynote Speaker, and Global Expert in applied neuroscience and positive psychology for professionals. Brynn completed her formal education in Neuroscience, Psychology, and Organizational studies (HBSc, MBA, PhD) and has over a decade in corporate business development (marketing, sales) working for Pfizer Inc., Nestle Inc., and Johnson & Johnson Inc.
While Professor Winegard retains positions as Faculty at Schulich School of Business and Lang School of Business & Economics, she has more recently moved her formal research programs to Harvard Medical School (applied neuroscience for brain health, wellness), and the Harvard McLean Institute of Coaching (positive psychology for high-achieving professionals).
Whether speaking to students, organizations, conferences, or companies, Dr. Brynn feels purpose-driven to help professionals benefit from and use the latest brain-based discoveries for work-life balance, cognitive wellness, peak performance, and overall success.
Dr. Brynn's clients are some of the world's top organizations including Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Google, Cadillac, Toyota, USAA, Royal Bank, CIBC, TD Bank, Raymond James, Georgia-Pacific, Franklin Templeton, Pfizer, Gilead, Novartis, and hundreds more.
When Dr. Brynn isn't giving formal talks or training, she is a regularly featured expert in television, radio, and print.
Dr. Brynn combines real-world corporate experience with frontier research to deliver cutting-edge insights that will be sure to both please your audience as well as elevate their business and daily lives.
Dr. Brynn's Story
Dr. Brynn has had a lifelong, unyielding obsession with the science and mystery of the human brain – an ongoing odyssey likely to carry her to her grave. Early on, young Brynn conceived that one had to understand the ‘machine’ working inside their skull to understand the person. The rest is history, as they say – Brynn collected everything she could find on the subject, everywhere, formally and otherwise. Brain sciences are the lens through which she sees and interprets the world and is most of what she talks about if you ever come to meet her.
An interview reporter recently asked, "Why the brain, Dr. Brynn? Why did you choose to focus on neuroscience in business?" she responded: "I didn't choose this: brain science is who I am, who I've always been." Brain science lives in her head, heart, and soul, and business runs through her veins. Academically researching or knowing something isn’t enough - Dr. Brynn wants real people to benefit from the latest discoveries so they are empowered to improve their work and lives.
At the tender age of two, Brynn's stated grown-up dreams were to 'change people's brains' by becoming a neurosurgeon. While studying medical sciences, well on her way to realizing these ambitions, a young Brynn realized she didn't want to change people's brains ‘from the outside in' but rather 'from the inside out'’ She commenced a decade-long formal program (culminating in a few degrees) to combine her two practical and intellectual curiosities - brain sciences (neuroscience, psychology, behavior, biology, neuroendocrinology, cognitive sciences) and commerce.
Brynn says she finds it endlessly fascinating that we all have the world’s most fantastic technology between our ears that controls everything about us: all action, reaction, motivation, perception, personality, reality, and destiny. She exclaims, "Because of this, I can't imagine not wanting to know everything we can find or figure out about the brain!"
Brynn wants to help you understand and use your brain better so you may thwart stress, anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout while also getting more done during your day, striking a better balance at work, and feeling better about all of it.
Purpose-Driven to Help You
When she worked in business development for pharmaceutical and consumer health companies, Dr. Brynn came by the impact and importance of the insights she now researches and relays to you honestly: as her academic peers often remind her, ‘Research is Me-search,’ after all.
Often overworked and overwhelmed, even back then, Brynn just knew there had to be a better way to maximize one’s efforts more effectively, work with one’s own brain more efficiently, and reorganize one’s workday more scientifically - to feel better while also getting more done.
In the third act of her career (after one decade in corporate America and another as a full-time Professor), Dr. Brynn has devoted herself to relaying her formal research and professional learnings with the intent of helping professionals by making a relatively new and opaque science usable, practical, accessible, and tangible, so they may harness their latent superpowers, feel more motivated, and get more done in less time with less strife.
Today, Dr. Brynn can be found year-round on stages and screens worldwide, departing frontier insights from her neuroscience and psychology research so you can do and feel better, both personally and professionally.
Dr. Brynn’s work is driven by the facts that:
Your human brain is still the most powerful computing technology on the planet (IBM’s Watson might only hope to beat you at Jeopardy; ChatGPT still struggles to tell 2021 facts from its own fictions), yet none of us were born with a user manual for how to really use, know, or understand it;
Research shows introspection & meta-cognition lead to incorrect conclusions about ourselves and the inner workings of our brains;
Brain myths and misconceptions continue to abound persistently and harmfully in mainstream media, popular culture, and in corporate lore.
Ultimately, Brynn wants to help YOU understand and use your own brain better so you can realize your full potential at work, in life, and in all you do.
On the Stage and Screen
An ‘Infotainer’: Lauded as ‘informing & inspiring’ because of her engaging and interactive keynoting style – her longest agent comments that she forges ‘an immediate natural connection with audiences because she is so approachable and instantly likable.’ Dr. Brynn entertains with meaty information, insights, stories, and knowledge.
Accessible: While her content is research-backed and science-based, Dr. Brynn speaks in regular language, using humor, anecdotes, stories, and examples to make a high science accessible and entertaining for professionals of all levels in any category.
High-Energy: Dr. Brynn’s passion is evident – she is enthusiastic, energetic, fast-paced, dynamic, physical, and funny. Expect Brynn to use the entire stage space or to move through the room, aisle-ways, between tables, and amongst rows to interact with guests.
High-Value: Dr. Brynn’s presentations have been described as ‘information-intensive’ and ‘highly engaging’ by audience participants, while organizers have the benefit of many briefings with Dr. Brynn to ensure customization and specificity to your organization, objectives, event goals, and current needs.
