How Michelle Teunis enables people to reimagine work design through her expertise in applied neuroscience and behaviour

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Chapters

• 0:00 Why Relationships at Work Matter
• 1:32 Host Welcome and Michelle’s Background
• 3:16 Kahneman’s Legacy and Metacognition
• 4:04 What Michelle Does and Why It Matters
• 6:16 Enablement Over Box‑Ticking
• 9:52 Reimagined Workforce: From Control to Coherence
• 12:41 Smart Work Design: Stimulus, Agency, Relations, Demands
• 16:15 Psychosocial Safety Beyond Token Gestures
• 17:39 Architecture and Measures That Drive Behavior
• 19:43 Adaptive Capability in the Age of AI
• 22:00 Cognitive Debt vs Cognitive Reserves
• 25:41 Attentional Intelligence: Make Learning Stick
• 28:20 Distraction Management and Deep Work
• 30:18 Two Brain Networks: Focus and Drift
• 31:23 Barriers to Real Transformation
• 34:08 COM-B and the Brain’s Organizing Principles
• 37:18 Habit Design and Environmental Cues
• 39:10 A Mindset Shift for Leaders
• 41:05 Case Study: From Conflict to Co‑Design