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Megs Gelfgot is a dynamic founder, TEDx and internationally recognized speaker on the neuroscience of resilience. With 13 years of driving customer success and strategic growth in C-level global environments, Megs has moved from entrepreneur to Fortune 500 consultant. With a passion for operational excellence, Megs' has led teams to scale programs across 20+ countries, fostering a culture of high performance, data analysis and impactful leadership. Clients include Fortune 500 executives, C-Level merger transitions and HINW clients. By blending data-centric operations with neuroscience and behavioral change, Megs drives customer success and strategic growth in dynamic, global environments.

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Megs Gelfgot

Format: Keynote
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This program is perfect for:&nbsp;
C-suite leaders navigating AI disruption and team silos
High-potential managers driving innovation in hybrid environments
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This program is perfect for:
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<li>A 3-step dopamine protocol to ignite 28% more creative breakthroughs</li>
<li>A neural sync tactic to align diverse teams for rapid execution</li>
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In an era of relentless disruption, AI outpacing ideas, tariffs crushing margins, unlocking team genius is no longer optional; it’s survival. This high-energy keynote harnesses cutting-edge neuroscience to transform your leadership brain into an innovation engine, revealing how dopamine loops amplify creativity and mirror neurons fuse fractured teams. Drawing from &nbsp;motivation science and Fortune 500 turnarounds, you’ll master a 90-second focus ritual to shatter cognitive ruts and a team-sync drill to boost cohesion 25%, ensuring ideas scale from spark to strategy in record time. Walk away with battle-tested tools to rewire your team for relentless, market-dominating innovation.

Dopamine Innovation Loop: Scale Genius Across Teams

Format: Keynote
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This program is perfect for:
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<li>C-suite executives battling decision fatigue and crisis overload</li>
<li>Rising leaders seeking unbreakable endurance in high-stakes roles</li>
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The audience will leave with:
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<li>Dopamine Stacking - 3 Ways</li>
<li>Vagus Nerve Reset&nbsp;</li>
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Burnout is bleeding billions. 18% of C-suite leaders are on the edge, crippled by relentless AI shifts and geopolitical chaos. This &nbsp;keynote distills neuroscience into battle-tested protocols that rewire your brain for resilience, turning stress into strategic fuel. Learn to harness dopamine surges for relentless drive and vagal tone hacks to stay calm under fire, backed by real-world turnarounds and crisis-defying pivots. Walk away with tools to stress shield and a daily motivation blueprint to conquer burnout, supercharge team morale and lead with unshakable clarity.

Dopamine & Resilience: Cognitive Protocols to Overcome Leadership Burnout

Format: Keynote
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This program is perfect for:
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<li>Leaders shaping high-potential talent in turbulent markets</li>
<li>Executives fostering inclusive, high-trust cultures across hybrid teams</li>
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The audience will leave with:
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<li>Mirror neuron sync protocol to boost team empathy</li>
<li>A 5-step neural protocol to elevate authentic leadership</li>
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In a world where fractured teams and AI-driven decisions erode trust, emotional intelligence is the ultimate leadership edge. This dynamic keynote leverages cutting-edge neuroscience to unlock authentic connection, harnessing mirror neurons to forge unbreakable bonds and prefrontal rewiring to amplify genuine influence. Inspired by empathy research and transformative stories like Salesforce’s culture reboot, you’ll master a 2-minute sync drill to align diverse squads and a daily authenticity ritual to groom leaders who inspire loyalty. Leave with brain-based tools to build pipelines of resilient, empathetic executives who drive 35% higher engagement and dominate in any crisis.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0: Neuroscience for Authentic Leadership Pipelines

Format: Keyone
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This program is perfect for:
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<li>All levels of employees</li>
<li>Any individual encountering adversity, failure and setbacks</li>
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The audience will leave with:
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<li>A blueprint for the leveraging their cognitive systems for more resilient outcomes</li>
<li>Ownership of the solutions in areas they feel stuck</li>
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Failure, purpose and resilience are all intimately connected. This session equips attendees to better understand what happens in our brain, bodies and behavior when the difficulties of life arise. &nbsp;Learn how to leverage cognitive and behavioral hardwiring to yield more resilient outcomes. 
 
Through distilled neuroscience, compelling founder stories and actionable tools learn &nbsp;to upload the program of resilience and take ownership of the solutions in areas that failure and defeat have strongholds. 
 
Resilience is a skill that can be taught and strengthened. In this empowering session, participants are challenged to expand their capacity for greatness.&nbsp;

Failure, Purpose and the Science of Resilience

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