Posts Tagged ‘public-speaking’
Upcoming keynotes on boosting innovation & resilience; digital brain health
Quick heads-up: I’ll be delivering two keynote talks next week, one to senior HR executives, one to digital health pioneers. Since the first chapter of our new book is titled “START WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND,” we’re glad to see the growing interest in applied brain & cognitive science from a variety of perspectives!
Read MoreUpgrading education and health with the brain in mind
Heads up: these are some of my upcoming talks, starting tomorrow with a brief insight blast on Upgrading education and health with the brain in mind at the World Economic Forum on Latin America. If you’re a SharpBrains friend and speaking at/ attending any, please let me know so we can connect. April 23–25, Lima, Peru: Upgrading education…
Read MoreThe First Step Is Failure
Joanne Jacobs, educator, blogger and author of Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea and the Charter School That Beat the Odds, participates today in our Author Speaks Series with an excellent article on how “Schools won’t improve until administrators and teachers can admit the problems, analyze what’s going wrong and…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Training for Trainers
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley, and SharpBrains offer this three-day workshop for educators and brain fitness practitioners seeking instructional certification in the SharpBrains course, Exercising Our Brains. SharpBrains (www.sharpbrains.com) has introduced the first science-based brain fitness center with information and programs to help people of all ages exercise their brains. They have offered the popular Exercising Our Brains course at SF State’s OLLI since October 2005.
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