Metathinking boosts core confidence, stimulates strong leadership and communication skills, and advances problem-solving abilities.
Metathinking is a leading-edge, neuroscience-based approach to achieve radical improvements in critical thinking. Metathinking strategies provide greater transparency of our thinking processes and uncover hidden influences that affect our reasoning. Attendees will learn advanced methods of attention, awareness and thought regulation for increased adaptability and resilience. Metathinking boosts core confidence, stimulates strong leadership and communication skills, and advances problem-solving abilities. Major Subjects: • Mindset and emotional intelligence • Strategies to uncover deeply concealed (implicit) thinking processes • Explicit and implicit learning • Habit formation and replacement • Decision-making under pressure • The neuroscience of memory formation and retrieval • Dynamic and conditional reasoning
Designed for: Analysts, auditors, attorneys, governance and compliance professionals, and those working in the IT, HR, legal, and medical professions as well as executives, policymakers and other decision-makers interested in improving critical thinking skills and judgment quality.
Researcher and Speaker
Dr. Toby Groves is a researcher and speaker on social-cognitive psychology that has spent the past decade studying decision-making and culture. He conducts innovative research in the areas of professional skepticism, implicit bias, and decisions under pressure, and uses imaginative audience experiments to demonstrate his concepts.
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