This episode features an interview with Tan Le, Founder and CEO of EMOTIV. Tan is an innovator, entrepreneur, speaker, and award-winning industry leader. Founded in 2011, EMOTIV is a bioinformatics company that uses electroencephalography (EEG) to better understand the human brain and accelerate brain research globally. EMOTIV’s braintech is cited by more than 19,000 research papers, representing breakthroughs in research for a range of diseases, brain impairments, and educational modalities.

In this episode, Amanda and Tan discuss using science to improve employee experience, personalizing wellbeing, and the cost of task switching.

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“The nice thing about technology like this is that you don't have that single moment bias that's skewed towards the moment in which you were surveyed. You actually get to see the ebb and flow of a person's emotion, their cognitive state throughout an entirety of a week or whenever you are actually using the technology. This takes away that bias that intrinsically happens with surveys and you really start to understand different types of work, different types of environments, different types of tasks, and its effect on your brain.” – Tan Le

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Episode Timestamps:

*(02:44): Tan explains EMOTIV 

*(11:52): Segment: Story Time

*(15:11): Tan’s background 

*(17:51): Segment: Getting Tactical

*(18:18): What data and science can tell us that employee surveys can’t

*(31:06): The cost of task switching

*(34:42): Segment: Asking For a Friend

*(37:48): Tan’s advice for implementing EEGs

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Links:

Connect with Tan on LinkedIn

Learn more about EMOTIV

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Study

BCI4Kids Program

Watch @brainpaintbyjohn paint while wearing EMOTIV’s EPOC headset

Connect with Amanda on LinkedIn

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