Ni’coel and Chelsea trace instinct, intuition, and discernment back to their innate “centers of intelligence”: body, heart, and mind. Reclaiming an ancient framework from corporate cliché, they show how each center captures non-literal data, relational atmospherics, and pattern-rich subtext, that conventional analytics can’t register yet remain essential to Human Decision Intelligence (HDI). 

Warning against the casual misuse of these terms, Ni'coel proposes that instinct delivers pre-mental/pre-emotional hits; discernment refines data through neutral contemplation; and intuition lets the heart read emotional truth beneath social camouflage. In a world awash with dashboards, Ni'coel argues, our sharpest strategic edge may lie in honoring these quiet, emergent human intelligences.

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🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel and Chelsea break down “cathedral thinking” as a counter-myopia practice: slow innovation, "unfinished" as an ethos, and devotion to craft beyond efficiency. They stress that cathedral thinking demands “skin in the game”, moving from passive observer to active builder, so the project becomes embodied rather than merely admired. They weigh speed against legacy, show how Human Decision Intelligence thrives on zooming both in and out, and draw parallels between multi-generational projects, epigenetic healing, and relationships that require continual upkeep. Tune in for existential math, artisan mindsets, and practical tips for weaving long-view vision into this week’s to-do list.

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🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel and Chelsea divorce "deviance" from its taboo baggage, showing how stepping outside accepted norms ignites Human Decision Intelligence, fueling intimacy, inspiration, and innovation. Through intelligent risk and mischievous play, they dismantle moralized “shoulds,” from etiquette’s policing of profanity to HR departments that safeguard corporate machinery. Their stories prove that a single, well-aimed deviation can rewire whole systems: converting punitive feedback into a self-invented promotion, separating legal compliance from genuine human care, redefining efficiency beyond speed, and letting friendships breathe by presuming everyone will inevitably mess up. Tune in to learn how to spot a rule that’s only habit, tilt the prism for a fresh angle, and watch an unseen road unfurl beneath your next step.

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🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel and Chelsea pry open the black box of “sound reasoning” to reveal how airtight arguments often rest on shaky heuristics, social conditioning, and personal myths. They map logic as a spectrum, each decision point swinging between sharply accurate data and wild misreads, and show how the aggregate quality of those points makes or breaks a conclusion.

Ni'coel offers a practicum on assessing the quality of reason: quick debrief rituals, preference-surfacing prompts, and rule-breaking experiments that let you recode outdated shortcuts. Treat every belief as provisional, every heuristic as editable, and watch clearer intelligence emerge where over-certainty once stood.

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🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel and Chelsea reimagine generosity as a counter-economic act, gratitude-driven, attention-rich, and brave enough to both give and receive or wisely withhold when over-giving masquerades as virtue.

They expose fear, entitlement, and invisible social contracts as the true cost of connection, while everyday gestures, listening without rush, bending a rule, that turn recognition into gratitude and then gratitude into generosity, emerging as quiet forms of human intelligence that bring repair and grace to a transactional world.

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🔸Cohost: Chelsea McKena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel and Chelsea reveal the dark side of “sound” reasoning, how smart people construct logical frameworks or virtuous personas (risk-taker, tireless giver, slow-and-steady partner) that secretly shield fear, ego, and unmet needs. They show how airtight logic can be perfectly right yet profoundly untrue, fueling self-sabotage and dodging accountability. Tune in to spot where your own finest arguments might be intelligent camouflage.

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

N’coel and Chelsea overturn our fixation on immediacy and efficiency, revealing how genuine ritual, anchored in symbol, repetition, and deliberate lingering, fuels clarity, creativity, and embodied decision-making. In relationship to Human Decision Intelligence, they show how convenience culture trades depth for quick fixes and invite listeners to recast everyday acts, from brewing matcha to that first post-travel shower, as counter-cultural micro-rituals that root meaning, nurture community, and restore the artistry of being human.

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Who are Ni'coel & Chelsea, what's their POV on Human Decision Intelligence, and how is Ni'coel's approach positively deviant?

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel and Chelsea present the HDI landscape of getting to root causes. In response to the immediacy of pain, people skip the diagnostic work of locating the source(s). The cycle of addressing symptoms instead of their causes amplifies negative outcomes. Mastering the ability to address root causes instead of symptoms becomes a crucial focal point in enhancing decision-making intelligence.

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

▶️ TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL:

Think back to a time when a decision that you made led to more downstream negative consequences. How did the symptoms and pain you were experiencing lead you to solve the wrong problem? And, looking back, what do you now see as the root cause?

Ni'coel and Chelsea present the most fun and foolish HDI landscape. The skills needed to engage in playfulness may not be what you think. Playfulness is a state of being, while play is the performance. We discuss what Human Decision Intelligence can be learned when we take ourselves less seriously, highlighting how specific forms of play can fast-track the development of trust and resilience, reveal fresh insights, alleviate stress, and minimize risk, all of which significantly improve our decision-making abilities. Consider the unique kind of intelligence, freedom, and potential that emerges when you let go of inhibitions, take new risks, and embrace unconstructed playfulness. 

🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com

🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

▶️ TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL:

When you encounter playfulness in others, what surfaces for you? Are you intrigued or put off by a seemingly wasteful or less productive approach? Consider how a playful approach may surface new types of less visible intelligence.