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Borrowed Brilliance – Unlock Your Full Potential by Embracing a New Era of Leadership!"
EXPLORE STEFANIE’S 2023 keynote for Academic Researchers
The academic world is ripe with potential, yet often bogged down by a culture that limits creativity and stifles innovation.
To retain the brightest minds and keep academia thriving, we must break free from the constraints of the current academic culture and champion autonomy, individualism, and creativity.
By taking ownership of our brilliance and our power, we can transform academia from the inside out.
Borrowed Brilliance is about becoming a leader that you would love to follow, whether you lead a team or are part of one.
The problem is that our leadership style is often shaped by our environment and experiences, based on what we saw key people in our lives doing and our beliefs about success, and our values.
However, how you lead now doesn't have to be how you will lead in the future.
Authentic leaders fosters creativity and innovation, which is essential in academia. By showing up as yourself, you will not only inspire others but also yourself.
Join Stefanie for an inspiring 1-hour talk that will guide you through 7 steps towards unleashing your full potential as a leader, no matter if you lead a team or are part of a team.
Discover who you are as a leader, unlock the potential of those around you, and create high-performing teams that thrive without burning out.
By embracing these unique 7 steps, you can move your team, department, or research center through a transformational journey towards a bright future.
If you’re interested in having Stefanie for an event (either in-person or virtually), click below.
“Prevailing academic culture is one of pain and suffering instead of creativity and innovation. If we want to retain our creative talent and attract the brightest minds, we need to solve our culture problem. There is a better way!”
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THIS IS THE TIME AND THIS IS THE PLACE TO UNLOCK YOUR LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL AND re-IGNITE YOUR GROUP’S MOTIVATION.
the leadership course
Team Leadership in Research is a self-paced leadership program delivered over 12 modules designed for faculty and advanced postdocs who want to create truly great teams within academia. With a combination of online video lectures, materials, and exercises, you can acquire practical skills for leading research teams who can communicate, collaborate, and accomplish great things together.
The Keynote
In this talk full of personal storytelling, practical performance strategies, and a dash of dry German humor, I pull back the curtain on the enormous toll that working from academia’s default culture takes on our creativity, our personal lives, and our careers. We’ll explore the 7 key steps on the journey of purpose, responsibility, and creativity so you chart a roadmap for successfully navigating the Ivory Tower without selling your soul.
RESEARCH MANAGEMENT MASTERY
Interested in small group coaching so you can build strong systems to nurture self-organized, highly motivated & productive research teams? Join the Research Management Mastery course, a 6-month hands-on management training program designed for research team leaders, providing you with tools and processes to build strong skills and systems to take your research program to the next level.
“Why bother? Because showing up as yourself is energizing, motivating, inspiring, not only to others but also to yourself. Authentic leadership has been shown to foster creativity and innovation. Isn’t that what academia is all about? ”
Associate Professor Neuroscience. Productivity and Performance Mastery for Academics and their Research Teams. Creator of Meta-Science and Leadership Frameworks.
About Dr. Stefanie Robel
I grew up in Berlin, Germany, and completed a PhD in Neuroscience in Munich before permanently relocating to the US to pursue my passion in brain health. My research encompasses the studying of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that cause the slowly progressing but often permanent changes to brain function after mild Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion.
I became a personal development and leadership nerd during my postdoctoral training, initially to increase my competitiveness for faculty appointments. I started my independent research program in 2016, built a thriving research team, currently composed of 10 full-time members, and brought in more than $6M in funding during my first two years on the tenure track.
My entire world expanded when I discovered that I could apply my research skills to not just the human brain but the potential of the human mind.
With my newfound set of strategies and tools, I was happier. I performed better. I led my team more effectively. As my life became more balanced and my academic success grew, I shared these tools with my team and colleagues and I went even deeper into human potential as I trained as a life coach (in both 2014 and 2018) so I could help other academics achieve similar results.
“My big mission is to help transform our current academic culture, so that people feel safe expressing their unique brilliance, have fun at work, and time for the other important areas of life by bringing mentoring, leadership, and management training to my research community. ”
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This is the start of something brilliant.
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