Soraya Shaw
Shaping Minds to Make Each Day a Good Day
Soraya is one of a select few commercial professionals with an MSc in Applied Organisational Neuroscience, giving her a unique focus on collaborating with individuals, leaders, and organisations to develop neuro-informed workplace practices. Her evidence-based approach aims to "shape minds to make every day a good day," enabling everyone to fully utilise their cognitive capabilities at work.
Through her consultancy's development and coaching programs, Soraya leverages the latest neuroscience research to help individuals, teams, and leaders achieve self-mastery. This empowerment allows for the natural functioning of people’s brains and fosters social cultures where mastery, autonomy, and purpose flourish.
As the demand for information on how to use our brains and minds grows Soraya has been active co-designing and presenting "Brainy Podcasts: Talking Creativity and Innovation," with the purpose of guiding businesses, C-suites, and individuals to be more confident and challenging in developing a humanled work culture that nurtures the uniqueness of all the brains in the business. This mindset shift benefits by keeping their organisation top of mind to their customers, competitive and attractive, and as a place where everyone wants to bring all their brains to work (www.brainycasts.com).
She is a co-author of ‘Brains Inspiring Businesses for Leaders’ published in 2024, and in 2023 Soraya contributed to a white paper detailing the neurological impact and brain damage of bullying, which will be presented to Parliament.
Soraya has been a Fellow, accredited Executive Coach, and a founding member of the Association for Coaching since its inception in 2003, and a founding member of the Association for Applied Neuroscience since it’s launch in 2023.
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Key Note Speaker at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Soraya Shaw with Carys Williams brilliant facilitator.
Soraya collaborates with a broad range of business professionals who are eager to expand their knowledge and are united in their goal of shaping their business models to become the thought leaders and world of work business role models, of tomorrow.
They are also united in recognising that just like our brains each individual and their organisation is facing different growth needs and challenges, calling for innovative solutions that match their culture and values.
Approaching these solutions from a neuroscience perspective means working closer with mindsets and experiences to compliment the richness that each person brings and the nature of their organisations culture and structure.
In mirroring how our brains thrive and what’s needed for them to stay healthy, understanding the physiology and role of neuroplasticity helps all of us to embed new pathways to achieve and reach new potentials.
Today’s leaders and individuals are steering a new future world of work. Working with our brains is fast becoming the norm, so just as your aim is to be a pioneer for your organisation, to embed and live that value don’t be a dinosaur and miss the advantage of making your business resonate for the future.
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2024 New Topics
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So you want to enjoy your success and achievements and explore what you can do more of? Working with the deep knowledge of a Neuroscience MSc experienced coach and a Fellow of the Assoication for Coaching, is a different experience enabling greater more effective change.
Neuroscience within coaching has many applications. Not least understanding and applying the neuroscience knowledge within the coaching relationship enables personal and professional transformation, as it mirrors the memory and shaping patterns of our brains and neuronal pathways.
Areas our clients feel the value include emotional regulation and intelligence, relationships, diversity of people and teams, problem solving and decision making, aim identification, leadership abilities, skills audit and business acumen.
Typically GrowWell® coaching begins over 6 sessions and then coachees decide on a continued series of sessions. Clients at senior C-level or within influential roles view the coaching relationship as continuous learning, strategy defining and positive reflection time.
GrowWell® coachees benefit from specifically designed tools that work our brains design and included the unique SHERPAR(c) model which is a based on the psycholgical, physical and social elements and needs of our brains.
As an accredited executive coach I have worked with hundreds of clients across different ages, cultures, diversity needs, industries and roles and I love it!
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As social creatures developing a psychosocial culture goes beyond individuall psychological safety to social relations and working with the needs of our social brain.
Experiencing belonging, being heard and seen transforms peoples experience with work enabling deeper trust, a learning culture and collaboration to improve productivity.
Our BrainShaw® programme will guide you and your teams showing you how to take a brain approach using a lens that evokes a culture of making everyday a good day.
The programme draws on the works of some of the most brilliant brains today including Paul Brown, Robin Dunbar, Dearn Burnett, Gina Rippon, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Kelly McGonigal Amy Cuddy, Frederic Laloux, Barbara Wheatley and Dan Seigel to name a few! rPlus the first brain based wellbeing evaluation ‘SHERPAR’, ‘Swivel and Pival’ company flex programme and ‘Bullying at Work’ Parlimentary white paper on trauma at work.
Organisations and leaders who innovate and operate in dynamic and flexibile cultures will reap the rewards of having the flexibiity within their relationships to embrace the ambiguity of change.
We’ve found that their core values echo ours of valuing human-kind. neurodiversity, the social capital this brings and systemic processes lived.
In 2024 companies and individuals will need flexibility, ingenuity and the ability to ideate if they are not to be discounted and over-passed. -
Leadership today has changed significantly. The leaders of today operate in a collborative environment where influence, fellowship, curiosity and ambition are differentiating traits, with financial growth and ambitions remaining paramount.
In many ways successful leaders understand they need to lead themselves through emotional intelligence, self-awareness and emotional regulation. The skill of asking the right questions, visioning and being comfortable with change and transition are also compulsory attributes.
Understanding the social brain and diversity of the minds around you to develop trust, respect, voice and personal agency are differentiators for engagment, attraction and retention so that individuals can work witin a psycholgically safe framework.
Working with the brain, and not against it, uses the brains neuroplasticity to help shape and give insights into how to effectively lead your team in a new and more human-centric way.
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Change in our life is inevitable and healthy. Whether leaving for a sabatical, promoting successors, parenthood, career change or a new direction, leveraging your life & professional experience is your fastest growth tool and mindset compass.
Learning how to work with your brains neuroplasticity, reflection and emotional intelligence networks will help you shape your beliefs and expectations in a shifting landscape for a future you control.
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Who wouldn’t want to know what’s going on in theirs and others heads!
Our signature series of neuroscience focused modules present and then explain how to harness the brain. Each topic won’t catapult you back to school! They’re jargon fee and immediately actionable.
The 8 modules in the series begins with anIntroduction to your brain how it does what it does, how to increase your brain health, and personal and professional potential.
2. The Neuroscience of growth mindsets
3. The Neuroscience of resilience and a healthy brain.
4. The Neuroscience of confidence and gravitas.
5. The Neuroscience of social relationships for rapport and influence.
6. The Neuroscience of bullying and brain damage.
7. The Neuroscience of Emotional Intelligence and Regulation.
8. The Neuroscience of Creating Change.
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2024 ‘Say Hello to Your Brain’ Workshops & Talks
Human Communication
Master how to create trust and synergistic relationships by building rapport making others feel seen, understood and their brains safe.
Resilient Mental Health
Based on Soraya’s research and shared with 100’s of professionals we approach stress resilience from a neuroscience perspective. One client estimated that the ROI on increased performance across the team was 4,357%
What kind of leader can you be?
Leaders work with fewer resources and flatter structures. What is your style in developing followship? How do you create connectivity across a hybrid, generational workforce? How do you develop your resilience and mental well-being in the face of continued flux?
Future Proof all the Brains in the Business
Whilst still a mystery we are understanding on a daily basis how and what our brains need to thrive and stay healthy. Learn the foundations with your teams of practical brain-based knowledge to benefit professionally and personally to achieve your purpose.
Neuro Hacks & Myths
Disinformation is everywhere including how our brains work. Discover 10 neuromyths and the hacks to use that will maximise your collective intelligence getting the most out of teams and increase company health and success.
Confidence & Gravitas of Imposter Syndrome
Are you limiting your potential and future success by lack of self-belief and focus on inadequacies? Learn authentic self-confidence and gravitas techniques that will change the limits you’ve set yourself transforming your power and control in being the authentic you.
Some of Our Clients
What our clients are saying
“The GrowWell neuro coaching has been a revelation! Learning about myself from a humancentric view point feels very natural and has meant that whilst I am personally developing my potential, my business ambitions are being met more effectively and sustainably”.
Nick P. Founder, Selective Asia, UK
“As a Guest Speaker at our Long Distance Leader programme Soraya providing invaluable insight into neuroscience for leadership.
Times are challenging and our leaders need to manage extreme change and create collaborative cultures across remote teams.
Seeing it from a neuroscience perspective, and entirely in a business context created light-bulb moments and clear links to meaningful practical actions”.
Molly S. London Agency Leader Academy
“As a leader I hadn’t appreciated how my mood or behviours would be picked up unconsiously by my teams as part of their brains protection system affecting their performance, trust, mood and ability to ideate.
Now understanding more from neuroscience I am much more consious about being emotionally present and optimistic, so that they can engage healthy brain chemicals for good mental health and so enjoy their roles”.
Helen H. CEO, Events Company
The ‘Rough Dimond’ Say Hello to Your Brain® workshop was transformational and a revelation espcially how to watch out for our brains ‘trip-ups’ when its saving energy or comes accross a competing unconscious belief!
We’ve learnt the hacks to achieve potential and how many neuromyths there are!”.
Future Influencers Group, Team Leader
