The Brain-Friendly Workplace

A smart, science-based approach to retaining your talent and making the world of work a better place.
Right now, we’re confronting a once-in-a-century opportunity to create a future of work that’s better for everyone. The old corporate standard of extreme hours, sleep deprivation, and nonstop travel is dead. And knowledge workers don’t miss it. They’re expecting today’s leaders to create the workplace of tomorrow: a hybrid ecosystem that thrives on flexibility, diversity of thought, and enables every employee to reach peak performance. In The Brain-Friendly Workplace, Friederike Fabritius offers a science-based and field-tested blueprint for tomorrow’s workplace. Through her easy-to-follow program, entire organizations are discovering how small, inexpensive changes can lead to advantages like better employee performance, higher job satisfaction, and stronger talent retention.
Friederike Fabritius, M.S. is a neuroscientist and trailblazer in the field of neuroleadership. Her brain-based leadership programs have transformed how Fortune 500 executives think, innovate, and navigate change. A thought leader and keynote speaker, Friederike is known for engaging global audiences at organizations such as Google, Ernst & Young (EY), Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Adecco, Accenture, Deloitte, BMW, Bayer, SAP, Harvard Business Review, Trivago, and Audi. Friederike serves on the Council of the German Academy for Technology, which advises the government on new technologies, innovation, and artificial intelligence. Friederike is an alumna of both McKinsey & Company and the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. She is the author of the award-winning book The Leading Brain: Neuroscience Hacks to Work Smarter, Better, Happier. Friederike is fluent in six languages and lives with her husband and five children in Heidelberg, Germany.

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