“We are not thinking machines that feel, but feeling machines that think.”
“We are not thinking machines that feel, but feeling machines that think.”
Descartes’ Error, Antonio Damasio MD, PhD. Professor of Neuroscience at The University of California
We are in the business of human conservation. Why? Because at no time in history have we ever expected individuals to cope with ingesting and acting on so much information, across so many channels of communication.
The NeuroTHRIVE program
THRIVE is a system developed to help overwhelmed people adjust, adapt and succeed in rapidly transforming or volatile environments. It is a system based on two primary principles inspired by Antonio Damasio MD PhD and Albert Einstein.
Working effectively and creatively in today’s workplace
The program identifies brain-friendly ways to adapt, gain insights, grow and flourish in the context of today‘s business environment. As we head into a future where machines (AI – Artificial Intelligence) will overtake the doing, there has never been a greater premium on creativity and emotional intelligence. Improving your mental and physical fitness will help you to improve your immune system, cope with stress and change in new healthy brain friendly ways.
Structured around T.H.R.I.V.E
6 areas of the human mental, physical and emotional body, looking at what it takes to enable and achieve peak performance for individuals and the workforce community.
The NeuroTHRIVE program
THRIVE is a system developed to help overwhelmed people adjust, adapt and succeed in rapidly transforming or volatile environments. It is a system based on two primary principles inspired by Antonio Damasio MD PhD and Albert Einstein.
Working effectively and creatively in today’s workplace
The program identifies brain-friendly ways to adapt, gain insights, grow and flourish in the context of today‘s business environment. As we head into a future where machines (AI – Artificial Intelligence) will overtake the doing, there has never been a greater premium on creativity and emotional intelligence. Improving your mental and physical fitness will help you to improve your immune system, cope with stress and change in new healthy brain friendly ways.
Structured around
T.H.R.I.V.E
6 areas of the human mental, physical and emotional body, looking at what it takes to enable and achieve peak performance for individuals and the workforce community.
THINK – Understand brainpower as a limited and precious resource and how to protect it.
Program outcomes
Improve self-awareness, minimise distractions and extend our thinking capacity each day. Protect deep thinking and attentional intelligence for increasing creativity, innovation and our problem solving capabilities.
HARNESS EMOTIONS – Understand the “fight or flight response in today’s office environment and how to reclaim brainpower.
Program outcomes
Reduce emotional arousal and increase emotional intelligence. Achieve goals whilst anticipating obstacles that arise, with confidence to find solutions
RELATEDNESS – Understand our brain is a social organ regardless and whether we are introverted or extroverted, most of us want to feel we belong and add value in our work.
Program outcomes
Enhance social intelligence, collaboration and engagement to improve performance and productivity.
INTUITION – ‘My best decisions in business and life have been made by intuition, not analysis’ said Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos.
Program outcomes
Ability to tap into your intuition (right brain hemisphere) to understand the rightness or wrongness of a situation, including cognitive biases that may be holding you back from making the best decisions.
VULNERABILITY – Understand that resilient and thriving communities and workplaces require an open and sharing culture. Many of us have been raised to think of vulnerability as a sign of weakness. Vulnerability can be seen as a new power by dealing with vulnerabilities and fears, allowing new possibilities to present itself.
Program outcomes
By allowing yourself to be vulnerable, you will build your confidence and learn to trust yourself and your judgement. Ability to be open to new opportunities and possibilities by dealing with fear and vulnerabilities that is empowering. There is no innovation and creativity without learning from failure in a psychology safe environment.
ENERGY – Understand that our energy is a limited resource. To adapt and thrive through change, we need to be at our best for healthy peak performance.
Program outcomes
Boost your energy with the right fuels from your diet, sleep, exercise and mindfulness practices to raise your mental and physical fitness whilst minimise illness and sickness.
Decrease sick days and perk up performance.
THINK – Understand brainpower as a limited and precious resource and how to protect it.
Program outcomes
Improve self-awareness, minimise distractions and extend our thinking capacity each day. Protect deep thinking and attentional intelligence for increasing creativity, innovation and our problem solving capabilities.
HARNESS EMOTIONS – Understand the “fight or flight response in today’s office environment and how to reclaim brainpower.
Program outcomes
Reduce emotional arousal and increase emotional intelligence. Achieve goals whilst anticipating obstacles that arise, with confidence to find solutions
RELATEDNESS – Understand our brain is a social organ regardless and whether we are introverted or extroverted, most of us want to feel we belong and add value in our work.
Program outcomes
Enhance social intelligence, collaboration and engagement to improve performance and productivity.
INTUITION – ‘My best decisions in business and life have been made by intuition, not analysis’ said Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos.
Program outcomes
Ability to tap into your intuition (right brain hemisphere) to understand the rightness or wrongness of a situation, including cognitive biases that may be holding you back from making the best decisions.
VULNERABILITY – Understand that resilient and thriving communities and workplaces require an open and sharing culture. Many of us have been raised to think of vulnerability as a sign of weakness. Vulnerability can be seen as a new power by dealing with vulnerabilities and fears, allowing new possibilities to present itself.
Program outcomes
By allowing yourself to be vulnerable, you will build your confidence and learn to trust yourself and your judgement. Ability to be open to new opportunities and possibilities by dealing with fear and vulnerabilities that is empowering. There is no innovation and creativity without learning from failure in a psychology safe environment.
ENERGY – Understand that our energy is a limited resource. To adapt and thrive through change, we need to be at our best for healthy peak performance.
Program outcomes
Boost your energy with the right fuels from your diet, sleep, exercise and mindfulness practices to raise your mental and physical fitness whilst minimise illness and sickness.
Decrease sick days and perk up performance.
Overall program benefits – summary
Enhance the collective brain across emotional, social and attentional intelligence across the business. An organisation that leverages these techniques and strategies is likely to reduce sick days and worker compensation claims, including mitigating legal risks.
A brain-friendly structured program using small pockets of time, spread out over a 6-9 month program.
Sustainable learning program that enhances engagement and motivation by applying new strategies and tools.
Apply new tools in bite size chunks that allows them to have wins and successes immediately. When winning, employees are more likely to continue using it. As wins occur it increases employee engagement, performance, productivity and results in higher returns on investment.
Who is this program for?
For everyone, we cater for individuals, teams and organisations. We will customise the program to meet your specific requirements and priorities.
Program delivery
Flexible program format
Each T.H.R.I.V.E module is delivered in 3 hour workshops either face to face or 2×1.5 hour webinars. Group or individual coaching sessions are recommended in between each module every 2-3 weeks to imbed key learnings and behaviours. This allows us to celebrate wins, share key learnings and focus on solutions for those strategies not working effectively, as no two brains are the same we need to customise the approach.
Key aspects can also be presented as a 1.5 hr keynote presentation, or a 3-hr presentation/workshop for conferences, company or team kick-off sessions and lunch-and-learn events.
The specific combination can be customised to meet your goals and is discussed during the initial discussion.
– For individuals
The program is delivered in a coaching style, either face to face or via webinars.
We recommended an initial 8 x 1 hour sessions within 12 week period. This will include monitoring what’s working for the individual and adjusting it meet the desired outcomes.
Delivery style
- The program is interactive, engaging and a lot of fun, with practical exercises for participants to apply and embed the new insights and knowledge.
- This is certainly not death by PowerPoint! – the material includes videos, team interaction, challenging exercises and sharing.
- Participants can be the scientist of their own experiment, applying what they learn in bite-sized chunks.
- Each component is supported by the relevant neuroscience research so that participants can feel confident about the new and often revolutionary approaches and techniques.
Behavioural Profiling
Many organisations find it helpful to engage with profiling.
Profiling enables participants to understand their underlying behavioural preferences and why they approach situations and individuals in particular ways.
This information allows leaders to consciously modify or adapt their behaviours to achieve the best results within their team.
PRISM Brain Mapping profile tool
We offer PRISM Brain Mapping, which uses a neuroscience-based approach to identify an individual’s ‘behaviour preferences’ by mapping brain activity in 8 behaviour dimensions and 26 key aspects of work preference.
This is available preceding the THRIVE program or as a separate workshop. Find out more.
We can help you cultivate the informed and self-compassionate mindset needed for peak performance in today’s complex business environment.
Contact us to see how we can help you and your organisation transform using the latest neuroscience approaches.
Feedback from clients
Insightful, empathetic, and a wonderfully pragmatic optimist, Vannessa sees the potential and the spark of brilliance in everyone. She has a remarkable insight into the workings of the human brain, and limitless empathy for what it means to work through volatility and find balance in ones personal and professional life. Her program The Neuroscience of Peak Performance and Collaboration has made valuable, demonstrable differences to the way I relate to others in the workplace, and that is reflected in changes I have observed within the broader team that took part in the training.
As a personal success coach, Vannessa has been instrumental to helping me achieve several professional breakthroughs in the past year. She doesn’t sugar coat, and she has an uncanny ability to pinpoint the things that are genuinely unconscious success blockers from the excuses we consciously use to block ourselves. I recommend her without hesitation to any organisation that wants to create foundations for innovation, collaboration and positive change within their teams.
Samantha Marks, Regional Content & Communications Director, McCorkell
I have followed Vannessa’s program, ‘The Neuroscience of peak performance’ over 9 months. Vannessa is truly passionate about Neuroscience and even more about sharing her knowledge and seeing everyone’s evolution in their personal journey. I have learnt a lot about myself, even more about others and how to make the most of human interactions to improve performance. Having Vannessa coming every three weeks helped us to stay on track with our key learning and develop our intention plan.
The last session was particularly revealing on how much my colleagues and myself have changed by taking action to improve our lives both at a personal and professional level. The format was more a collaborative approach and focused on self reflection and group exchange which I believe, has helped us to analyse ourselves and understand the specific action to take to improve our performance and quality of life. Vannessa will be an asset for any company willing to improve their team performance, and every individual following the program.
Roxy Emeline Rebillard, Marketing Account Manager, McCorkell – Technology Marketing Specialist – B2B
I recently completed the Neuroscience of peak performance program delivered by Vannessa at Link Success. It has been an amazing journey over the 9 month program, as I have learnt many great concepts that I have applied to lift my professionalism, focus and performance that has greatly benefited my self as an individual, my team and organisation. Most of all it has provided me the opportunity to connect with people in the business that I didn’t know very well and to share ideas, concepts and experiences to create more insights (innovative and creative ideas) to solve client and business problems and therefore increased the value we deliver at every stage during the buyers journey.
Vannessa goes the extra mile to customise the training by provide additional information and time to support the individuals learning journey. I strongly recommend working with Vannessa to reach your learning goals and outcomes.
Alexandre Pauly, Senior Marketing Automation Specialist, McCorkell
It was a pleasure working with Vannessa on a Government Collaboration & Change Management Project for NSW Department of Planning and Environment. Vannessa is such a positive person to work with and made working together fun and engaging.
I really value Vannessa’s Neuroscience perspective and knowledge. It is great to work with a professional consultant who is responsive, reliable and enthusiastic. I look forward to working together in the near future.
Lisa Maurice, Roxy Change Manager | Digital Workplace | Innovation
The Link Success Leadership training program has been very valuable and an eye opening experience. It is one of the few training sessions I’ve attended that I have actively enjoyed, learnt new and embedded existing ideas, and I have come away with an action plan & tools to help myself, others & the company to be even more successful moving forward.
Thank you so much for giving us your time, and helping us on our journey to become great leaders.
Gareth Jones, Team Leader, IT Lead Generation at McCorkell
Working with Vannessa was a really positive and engaging experience. The Neuroscience of Peak Performance program has enhanced the way I work and relate to others in the workplace, and it was a key contributor in my smooth transition into full-time work.
Vannessa is energetic, dynamic and above all interested in every professional she works with, and I really value having her in my professional network.
Nicholas Carter, Account Coordinator at McCorkell & Associates
I had the privilege of completing Vannessa’s Neuroscience of Peak Performance program over the course of nine months. Vannessa’s energy, optimism, commitment and knowledge are what set her apart in the industry, and what contributed to the growth experienced from the Neuroscience of Peak Performance program. I would highly recommend Vannessa!
Monica Courtney, Account Executive at McCorkell & Associates
I’ve been very fortunate to have been working with Vannessa since August 2016. As a member of the leadership team at McCorkell, Vannessa has been working with me on a regular basis across a wide range of professional and personal development programs.
Vannessa’s depth of knowledge, personal attention and ability to ask the right questions has been beyond invaluable. I consider myself a better leader, manager, mentor, employee and person due to her coaching and training sessions. It also greatly helps that she is one of the nicest and most genuine people you could hope to work with!
Bronwyn Cook, Senior Account Director & Head of B2B Strategy at McCorkell