Tara Swart

Neuroscientist

Dr Tara Swart is at the forefront of the application of neuroscience to business, an award-winning author, and speaks globally on the brain in business at international conferences, and at top business schools including Oxford, Stanford, and MIT, where she is Senior Lecturer and runs the Neuroscience for Leadership and Applied Neuroscience programs.

"One of the most prominent voices in the field of neuroscience"

Topics

Neuroscience for Leadership
Positive Leadership
Open Your Mind
Mental Resilience

Languages

She presents in English.

How she presents

Tara considers what individuals and teams can achieve once they understand why they think, feel and act the way they do.

Publications

2023
Podcast: Reinvent Yourself with Dr. Tara
2020
The Source: Open Your Mind, Change Your Life
2015
Neuroscience for Leadership
2011
An Attitude for Acting

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In Detail

Tara’s research has explored mental resilience and high-pressured work environments, giving her insight into the social and psychological effects of stress. She tackles everything from personal achievement to cultures of success. She advises Fortune 500 companies on crisis management and dealing with high levels of stress. In analysing team and individual data, she assesses how teams can work best together in order to reach sustainable peak performance. As a highly accomplished neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Tara is a regular in the media, writing articles for Forbes, the FT, Fast Company, and the Wall Street Journal, and has even been Neuroscientist-in-Residence at the Corinthia Hotel, London.

What she offers you

Tara is passionate about disseminating simple, pragmatic neuroscience-based messages that change the way people live and work. Tara’s research has explored mental resilience and high-pressured work environments, giving her insight into the social and psychological effects of stress.