Technology is the easy part – it’s working with people that’s hard! Holding effective meetings, securing peoples’ time and attention, making decisions, and working on a team are all harder than they should be. Is it because everyone (else) just does things wrong? Or could it be that if we understood more about how the brain works and the different ways that people think, we could communicate more effectively? That’s the focus of this session: improving communication and building more effective teams through better understanding of the human brain. We will talk about the Whole Brain Model and learn more about the “toward” and “away” responses that guide nearly everything we do. In short, we will leverage neuroscience principles so we can all learn to communicate more effectively.