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The neuroscience of job loss: helping organisations manage redundancy and transition better for leavers and survivors.
When someone is told their role is at risk, their brain responds the same way it would to a physical threat. The same is true for the colleagues watching it happen. Most redundancy processes are designed without either of these in mind. The cost shows up later: 74% of layoff survivors report a decline in their own productivity*, and research consistently shows 40-50% of senior executives fail in new roles within eighteen months**. Everyone pays the price.
This session explores what neuroscience tells us about how people experience job loss - both those leaving and those staying - why standard practice often makes it worse, and what good looks like when the brain is taken seriously. Attendees will leave with practical knowledge and questions to take into their own next process, and a different way of thinking about transition that goes beyond the moment of exit.
* Leadership IQ, Don't Expect Layoff Survivors to be Grateful
** Heidrick & Struggles; Corporate Executive Board
About the speaker
Caroline Brewin
Caroline Brewin is the Founder of Brain Powered, a neuroscience-led practice working with leaders through change, transition and high-stakes performance. A PCC-credentialled executive coach with eighteen years in global investment banking, including Chief of Staff and other senior leadership roles at Deutsche Bank, she now partners with organisations including HSBC, the Bank of England, Google and Nordea.
Caroline is the author of Confident: How to Be Confident Using the Secrets and Superpowers of Neuroscience, grounded in research from over 17,000 participants. Her work brings rigour, warmth and practical tools to the human moments that decide whether organisations and the people in them move forward well.
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