Making Friends with Stress: How to Create A Brain-Friendly Space

Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-min& Q+A with Charlotte Ingham Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner. This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about. Event Schedule: 6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open 7pm Lecture Starts 7.45pm Q&A 8pm Talk Concludes 8.30pm Event Closes. *Please arrive close to 6.30pm A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go. Your Topic: Making Friends with Stress & Creating a Brain-Friendly Space Stress isn’t the enemy. In fact, the right amount of pressure can help us focus, perform and grow. The problem begins when pressure becomes prolonged and our brains and bodies don’t get the opportunity to recover. In this engaging, practical keynote, Charlotte Ingham explores the neuroscience of stress and what happens in the brain when workplace pressure becomes too much. Participants will learn how cortisol influences thinking, behaviour, communication and performance and, importantly, what we can do about it. Moving beyond simply telling people to “manage their stress”, Charlotte introduces the concept of a brain-friendly workplace: an environment designed to reduce unnecessary stressors while increasing the conditions that help people feel safe, connected, motivated and able to perform at their best. Blending neuroscience, psychosocial risk and practical workplace strategies, this keynote gives people a fresh way to think about stress and simple actions they can use immediately to create healthier, happier and higher-performing workplaces. Your Speaker: Charlotte has a Master of Educational Research where she studied brain chemistry and the neuroscience of thriving Charlotte’s genius zone is a captivating intersection where the brilliance of neuroscientific insights converges with the realm of conscious leadership, creating a dynamic landscape for transformative growth. In this zone, the intricate dance between the neural architecture of the brain and the artistry of conscious decision-making unfolds. It is a space where leaders harness the power of neuroplasticity, understanding that the brain’s adaptability is not just a biological phenomenon but a strategic tool for shaping organizational culture. Charlotte illuminates the neurological pathways that underlie emotional intelligence, resilience, and empathetic leadership, providing conscious leaders with a profound understanding of how to optimize their cognitive functions. As she navigates the neural circuits of innovation, motivation, and collaboration, Charlotte inspires a paradigm shift, inviting leaders to sculpt environments that nourish both individual and collective neural flourishing, ultimately fostering a workplace where conscious leadership is not just a philosophy but a neuroscientifically informed reality.