Dr. Helena Boschi
Psychologist specialising in applied neuroscience
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About Helena Boschi
Having worked at senior level for at British Airways, Accenture, Serono (now Merck KGaA) and Shire Pharmaceuticals, Helena now offers scientific rigour grounded in real world business insight. She has helped senior leaders and teams to embed behavioural science into leadership, culture and change strategies, moving organisations beyond generic models towards genuine brain-based insight and transformational performance. Through her rare blend of warmth, storytelling and scientific evidence, Helena makes complex research resonate emotionally and intellectually, ensuring that the messages stick.
Her best-selling book, Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Our Brain to Get the Best Out of Ourselves and Others (2020), combines scientific research with practical stories to illuminate how our brains operate in everyday life. It offers evidence-based tools for leading happier, healthier, and more productive lives.
A member of the British Psychological Society, Helena is the founder of Chequered Leopard, where she leads a team dedicated to making neuroscience and behavioural science accessible and actionable in the corporate world.
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- The Neuroscience of Leadership: Leading the Brain in an Age of Complexity
Exceptional leadership requires an understanding of how the brain drives perception, emotion, and decision-making. Helena reveals how leaders can build trust, connection, and engagement by working with the brain’s natural wiring, not against it, in complex and fast-changing environments.
Key Insights:
- The neural foundations of empathy, trust and social cohesion, and their impact on leadership.
- The neurobiology of language: how words literally shape minds
- Practical ways to ignite energy, enhance collaboration and energise multi-generational teams
- The Neuroscience of Decision-Making: How the Brain Manages Bias, Risk and Uncertainty
Every decision we make is filtered through unconscious neural shortcuts that shape judgement and perception. Helena’s session integrates neuroscience and behavioural science to explore how these mechanisms operate, and how we can make better and braver decisions under pressure.
Key Insights:
- The neuroscience of bias, uncovering the hidden traps that distort perception and reasoning
- How to balance intuitive and analytical processes in uncertain situations.
- Frameworks for improving risk evaluation, group decision dynamics and strategic choices
- The Science of Resilience: How to Think, Adapt and Grow Under Pressure
The brain is a dynamic, adaptive system, driven by neuroplasticity, constantly rewiring itself in response to new information, experiences and environments. In today’s high-pressure world of relentless and rising demands, our neural systems are frequently pushed to their limits. Drawing on neuroscience and psychology, Helena explores how neuroplasticity allows us to strengthen and optimise brain function and maintain cognitive performance.
Key Insights:
- The neurobiology of stress identifying and resetting the brain’s threat response
- Strengthening emotional regulation and cognitive flexibility under pressure
- Designing organisational environments that sustain psychological wellbeing and high performance
- The Cognitive Science of Innovation: Rewiring the Brain for Curiosity and Change
Innovation begins in the brain. We have an extraordinary capacity for learning and creativity, but at the same time we struggle with anything too new. In this energising session, Helena explores how to unlock and access our natural curiosity and imagination, and how organisations can harness these to drive creative performance.
Key Insights:
- The neurocognitive barriers to creativity and how to overcome fear, cognitive rigidity and our natural drive to conform
- How curiosity activates the brain’s reward system, promotes psychological safety and enhances learning agility
- Practical methods for fostering experimentation, stretching cognitive capability and embedding innovative methods into daily routines
Here you can find links to books by Dr Helena Boschi. For bulk book orders for your event please speak with a member of the team.
