The Business of Brains

Rafiza Ghazali became the Group CEO of Cradle, a tech start-up fund, during the lockdown in June 2020. Hear how she rose to the challenge in the initial months, what's important to her as a leader, and how she sees the future. She has a simple but effective practice - to start virtual meetings with a smile, and to consciously bring positive energy to every virtual interaction.

Rafiza  Ghazali became the Group CEO of Cradle, a tech start-up fund, during  the lockdown in June 2020. Hear how she rose to the challenge in the  initial months, what's important to her as a leader, and how she sees  the future. She has a simple but effective practice - to start virtual  meetings with a smile, and to consciously bring positive energy to every  virtual interaction.

In Episode 3, Rita Shah, Master Certified Coach, discusses leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic with Raja Teh Maimunah, Managing Director of Wholesale Banking at AmBank Group. Raja Teh shares what drives her personally, and lessons that leaders need to take away from the crisis.

Episode 2 begins with a discussion of the human emotion template - emotions connected to thriving, to survival and to being surprised or startled. Rita Shah, Master Certified Coach, and Dr. Paul Brown, Professor of Organisational Neuroscience, explore how the knowledge of what makes meaning for someone is significant for a leader to comprehend, in order to create the conditions for employees to thrive. What are the qualities of such a leader? Dr. Paul Brown has distilled these to five qualities which he calls Limbic Leadership. Listen to find out if you are practising the Limbic Leadership qualities.

The Business of Brains is the podcast that harnesses the new knowledge about the brain to understand how leaders can create the conditions for their people to thrive, not just survive, in organisations.

In this episode, Rita Shah, Master Certified Coach, and Dr. Paul Brown, Professor of Organisational Neuroscience, discuss what 21st century neuroscience is telling us about how the brain works. It’s making us re-think the fundamentals of human behaviour; that people are not primarily psychological systems, but energy systems, just like the rest of the physical world. 

Back in the 17th century when Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am", the understanding became that the thinking entity was the Self or the person.

But in the 21st century, neuroscience is telling us "I feel, therefore, I can think I am". I have to feel, before I can think.

What does this mean for organisational leaders? Listen to find out.