Cora Robinson

Rewire for Impact: Applying Neuroscience to Future-Proof Your Leadership


This transformative session empowers leaders to thrive in a fast-changing world by leveraging the latest insights from applied neuroscience and cognitive science. Grounded in the principle of neuroplasticity—the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt and change—participants will begin to develop the mindset and tools needed to rewire their thinking and elevate their leadership impact.

By exploring how the brain shapes decision-making, communication, and behaviour, leaders will gain a powerful foundation for personal growth and organisational transformation. This session provides practical, science-based strategies to foster agility, innovation, and sustainable change.

Key Learning Outcomes:

  • Heightened Self-Awareness – Understand how brain function influences your leadership style, decision-making, and motivation, and how to harness this awareness to lead more effectively.
  • Rewiring for Impact – Learn how to consciously reshape thought patterns and behaviours using neuroscience principles to lead with clarity, purpose, and influence.
  • Strategic Thinking and Behavioural Agility – Develop high-level cognitive skills to enhance problem-solving, adaptability, and innovation—aligning leadership behaviours with strategic priorities.
  • Building Organisational Neuroplasticity – Discover how to embed neuroscience-informed practices into your organisation to cultivate a culture of continuous learning, resilience, and collective growth.

Key Take-Aways:

  • The impact of applied neuroscience on your effectiveness as a leader
  • How to rewire your brain to lead with greater impact and agility
  • How to unlock your full leadership potential to drive lasting organisational change

Keynote

Cora will present a short keynote

Cora’s Bio

Cora Robinson, is CEO at Create. Express., a global leadership development boutique, based in Holywood, Ireland www.createexpress.com. Cora is a highly engaging facilitator and coach, with 20+ years of experience working with executives and senior teams in a variety of blue-chip organisations worldwide – she and her team have designed and delivered global leadership programmes for a range of Corporates including PepsiCo, Dechra Pharma, Adidas, Associated British Foods, Coca Cola Hellenic, Campari, Zalando, Heineken, KP Snacks and Northern Trust. She has a strong track record in culture change and bespoke leadership development that drive career advancement – taking executives and senior teams to the very top of their game.

With an Advanced Certificate in Management, Strategy and Innovation from MIT and a practitioner certification in applied neuroscience, she specialises in applying neuroscience to leadership, culture and high performance. She is an accredited NeuroLeadership Brain Based Coach, a practitioner in Systemic Coaching. She is accredited in a range of leadership assessment tools including CPP (Cognitive Processing Profile), Values Orientation, ESCI and Hogan 360, Discovery Insights, Personal Resilience Indicator, Mindset Mapping and the Advanced Hogan leadership suite. Connect with Cora at linkedin.com/in/corarobinson

She also personally designs and hosts unique residential executive leadership retreats at her 5-star beachfront venue in the heart of Northern Ireland’s creative peninsula. She and her team also deliver a range of pop-up residential executive leadership retreats in exciting global locations, offering senior executives and leadership teams an opportunity to re-energise, re-focus and re-invent themselves and their lives more generally.

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