Cognitive Edge.
Life-Long Performance.
Protect your most valuable asset
Optimal cognition is your most important asset as a leader . We offer personalized brain health programs for leaders that interrupt early pathological changes and reduce the incidence and trajectory of cognitive decline within your organization.
Enhance leadership performance
Cognitive performance is critically important in leadership roles. Leaders’ capacity and effectiveness rely on strong executive function skills such as critical thinking, decision making, discernment, complexity of thought, goal-directed behavior, planning, organization, problem-solving, and emotional regulation (Fisher et al., 2014).
Leaders must be able to process information under pressure to make thoughtful, intentional decisions, while maintaining productive relationships, making optimal cognition a high priority and a competitive edge.
What is brain health?
The term "brain health" does not have a recognized, universal definition and is often defined as a lack of injury to the brain (Wang, 2020). However, brain health is more than simply the absence of injury or disease; it's optimal cognitive functioning and optimization of the underlying markers that predict future cognitive decline.
The development and progression of cognitive decline depends on multiple genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors that interact with each other. Signs of the characteristic amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer’s brains can sometimes be found in the brains of healthy people as young as 20 years old (Baker-Nigh et al., 2015).
Interestingly, a 2012 Marist Poll revealed that Alzheimer's disease is not only a concern of people already in the later decades of life but, surprisingly, also in younger age groups. The survey involved 127 18-30 year-olds and 118 adults between the ages of 55-90 years old and found that the younger group had more knowledge about Alzheimer's disease than the older group and that women had more knowledge than men in both age groups. Another study found that 60% of the 2000 participants aged 18 and older reported being afraid of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Natural decline of the human brain
Dementia in the workplace is thought to affect people aged 65 and up, but according to neurologist and neuroscientist Dr. Dale Bredesen (2017), the human brain begins to naturally decline at age 45. This is often the prime of one's career, an opportune time for leaders to take stock of their brain health and improve habits or deficiencies that are unintentionally moving them along the continuum toward cognitive decline.
There are multiple influences on cognition from the quality of the microbiome and integrity of the intestinal barrier to common toxic exposures such as mold and plastics ingested from water bottles (Bredesen, 2017; Vasefi et al., 2020). The effects of such are cumulative and reversing the problems requires addressing each offender.
Brain health in the organization
Alzheimer's disease is preventable through a precision, orchestrated approach tailored to the individual's physiology, addressing specific lifestyle factors (Armstrong, 2019; Berger, 2016; Bredesen, 2017; Edwards et al., 2019; Toups et al., 2021). Such a program would address the factors known to prevent and reverse the pathological processes that contribute to cognitive decline, reducing their cumulative effect and thereby reducing risk.
The organization presents a unique opportunity to improve brain health (and general health) in multiple people at one time in a group program or working with multiple individuals from a leadership team. The goal of a brain health program is to interrupt early pathological changes and reduce the incidence and trajectory of cognitive decline in leaders within the organization.
What’s possible?
An assessment of potential contributing factors and biomarkers makes it possible to predict Alzheimer’s disease and mitigate those factors through lifestyle modification to prevent its occurrence.
Are you ready to minimize your risk factors and take steps to sharpen your competitive edge?
“Signs of the characteristic amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer’s brains can sometimes be found in the brains of healthy people as young as 20 years old.”