The Neuroscience of Decision-Making

Thursday, April 23, 2026

at Cascades Manor

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The Neuroscience of Decision-Making:

Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize how time pressure, uncertainty, and emotion distort judgment and decision quality

2. Identify the most common failure modes that emerge in team decision making under stress

3. Strengthen core decision capabilities that reliably improve outcomes in complex environments

4. Slow decisions when accuracy matters and accelerate decisions when speed is required

5. Apply practical frameworks to improve alignment, reduce conflict, and increase follow-through

6. Transfer insights from the workshop directly into leadership, strategy, and team discussions

Participants will work with four evidence-based decision capabilities that are critical in volatile and ambiguous conditions:

Ambiguity Tolerance: Comfort making decisions with incomplete information

Cognitive Flexibility: The ability to update mental models when assumptions no longer fit

Impulse Control: The capacity to pause long enough for judgment to catch up

Risk Appetite: The ability to balance downside protection with upside opportunity

In a world where volatility is the norm, organizations can no longer depend on instinct alone. NeuroDecide empowers teams with a shared understanding of how the brain drives judgment, giving leaders the cognitive edge to navigate disruption with confidence, clarity, and speed.

Speaker Bio:

Lorne Epstein, SHRM-SCP, MSOD, is a social scientist, keynote, and Vistage speaker who consults with senior leaders on improving decision-making outcomes by reducing biases. Over 60,000 professionals have taken his workshops worldwide. He has been featured in Forbes, Cosmopolitan, The Christian Science Monitor, and other notable publications. His research focuses on enhancing decision-making and mitigating the effects of unconscious bias in the workplace. Lorne has been leading experiential workshops since 1993. His book, You're Hired! Interview Skills to Get the Job has been downloaded over 500,000 times worldwide. Lorne is currently studying cognitive neuroscience at the master’s level at George Mason University. He was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Psi Chi, the national honor society for psychology.

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