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In this expert class, executive coach Alisa Cohn shares principles and practices designed to help you overcome self-doubt and insecurity, enabling you to become a more natural leader for your team.

This class, featuring insights from Michael Strahan and Ginni Rometty, emphasizes learning from failure, building resilience through relationships, and fostering a growth mindset, ultimately equipping participants with strategies to thrive amidst uncertainty and embrace personal and professional growth.

This class, featuring experts like Timothy, Herman, and Zollman, explores organizational culture and decision-making by emphasizing psychological qualities, diverse perspectives, and the importance of collaboration, trust, and organized skepticism to enhance team effectiveness and combat cognitive biases.

This class, led by experts like Amy Cuddy and Tony Coles, focuses on developing presence, emotional intelligence, and self-knowledge to enhance personal and professional growth, emphasizing the importance of self-affirmation, leadership dynamics, and creating a supportive workplace culture.

This class explores human decision-making, emphasizing humility and data-driven analysis while addressing cognitive biases like availability bias and confirmation bias, ultimately equipping participants with strategies to improve judgment and navigate complex choices through a blend of psychological insights and practical applications.

This class emphasizes that effective leadership relies on fostering psychological safety and trust, encouraging genuine commitment through empathy, delegation, and intrinsic motivation, while providing practical strategies to inspire meaningful engagement and resilience within teams.

This class equips participants with strategies from experts like David Goggins, Amy Cuddy, and Dr. Rudolph Tanzi to enhance mental strength and emotional well-being through mindfulness, body-mind techniques, and compassionate emotional processing, ultimately fostering resilience and personal growth.

"If you're interested in human performance, what you want is something that's reliable and repeatable, and thus you want neurobiology because neurobiology gives you mechanism."

Virtue is hard to attain, and that’s the point. Sarah Schnitker explains why self-help shortcuts miss the mark.

“Who ya gonna believe: me or your own eyes?” Until you can assess your perception, the answer should be neither.

Many of us rely on emotional advice that doesn’t actually work. Psychologist Ethan Kross offers a smarter, science-backed approach to managing emotions with flexibility and perspective.

“There's a very pervasive belief that human nature is fundamentally selfish, but I know for a fact that that can't be true in part because my life was saved by a stranger a long time ago when I was 19.”

The UNILAD founder followed a rocky road to success — and his 2023 ADHD diagnosis proved revelatory.