Building the Future of Leadership
Our Mission
Our mission is to establish a new standard of leadership where neuroscience serves as the foundation for strategic thinking and transformation.
Our Vision
A global community of leaders where neuroscience becomes an integral part of leadership, fostering strategic development and ensuring sustainable success in any environment.
Chrysaline Group represents a leading neuroscience consulting company that helps organizations develop their business and gain a competitive edge through a new dimension of leadership.
We teach leaders how to optimize brain functions and mechanisms to:
- Make effective decisions
- Strengthen teamwork
- Generate ideas and facilitate their efficient implementation
- Transform development strategies through a neuroscientific lens
We provide leaders with scientifically developed techniques, enabling them to build sustainable, human-value-driven organizations that remain competitive in any environment.
Understanding the Brain-Based Leadership
Neuroscience of leadership is a discipline that studies how the brain functions in leadership processes, how neurobiology influences leadership behaviors, and how the knowledge of brain processes can be used to develop effective leadership skills. The term Neuroscience of Leadership was first established in 2006 by David Rock and Jeffrey Schwartz. Today, the neuroscience of leadership is rapidly evolving and is actively used in human capital management to help leaders and teams manage motivation, emotions, and decision-making processes more effectively.
Decision Making and High Performance
- Leadership Psychology – Focuses on behavioral patterns, motivation theories, and emotional intelligence
- Neuroscience of Leadership – Provides biological explanations for how high-performance leaders develop and how stress, emotions, and neurochemical processes affect performance.
- In the context of talent development strategy: Neuroscience offers evidence-based approaches that help HR teams and learning and development specialists create the right learning environment optimized for brain function.
For example, the SCARF model (developed by David Rock), which is based on neuroscience, is used in business to enhance leader motivation and employee engagement.
Learning Efficiency and Memory
- Leadership Psychology – Studies behavioral approaches, how leaders acquire knowledge, and their personal development
- Neuroscience of Leadership – Provides insights into how the brain functions during learning, how we establish memory, and how learning processes should be designed with the brain’s natural mechanisms in mind.
- In the context of talent development strategy: Through neuroscience, we can implement personalized learning paths that align with the brain’s learning processes (e.g., micro-learning, spaced learning, incorporating sensory experiences).
Improving long-term retention and practical application of knowledge is achieved using neuroscience-based techniques, such as Spacing Effect (interval learning) and Retrieval Practice (active recall of information).
Motivation and Stress Management
- Leadership Psychology – Utilizes motivation theories (e.g., Maslow, Herzberg), helping HR understand what drives employee motivation.
- Neuroscience of Leadership – Shows how brain chemistry affects motivation, stress, and productivity.
- In the context of talent development strategy: HR teams can use neurochemical techniques to enhance employee engagement (e.g., oxytocin for building trust, dopamine for increasing motivation).
Strengthening empathetic leadership with the help of neuroscience is possible—when a leader understands how the brain responds to emotions, they can create a healthy, psychologically safe work environment.
Success Story in Neuroscience Leadership
Successful examples of implementing the neuroscience of leadership approaches in leadership development programs come from major companies such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dataminr, Accenture, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, UPS, Walmart, Splunk, CVS Pharmacy, GAP, and others.
CVS Pharmacy's NeuroTransformation Outcome
in Collaboration with NeuroLeadership Institute
Focus Area: Enhancing Inclusion
Company-Specific Program: INCLUDE
A program designed to raise inclusion within the company by developing three key skills:
- finding common ground with people
- encouraging and motivating others
- promoting transparency
By developing these three skills, an environment is created where people can see their own need, role, and involvement in creating shared value. The program included lectures, practical exercises, and research findings—all based on what happens neurobiologically in the brain when an individual feels like a full-fledged member of the collective versus when they do not see their role.
Key Outcomes
- 94%
of employees are motivated or very motivated to apply the learned techniques in practice.
- 97%
of employees see the effectiveness of their role within the company.
- 72%
of participants made their colleagues feel their value and importance in the team and the company, using symbolic gestures/actions 10 times more frequently than before.
In testimonials, employees report that they see their value and feel more appreciated than before the training.
Clair, T. (2024, May 31). CVS Health harnesses the power of companywide inclusion. NeuroLeadership
