We like to fit in with what works for you

We consult, train, and coach, and our aim is to help improve performance, for you, your teams, and your organisation.

To do this, we take contemporary research from neuroscience and psychology and synthesise it into programmes for you and your people. We’ll work with you to understand your needs and wants, and then co-design a programme with you. This can be a mix of things, and could involve one or more of the following:

  • Seminars and workshops to educate and inspire
  • Executive and individual coaching to help clear obstacles from performance
  • Consulting and facilitation to assist with your problem-solving, decision making, policies and procedures
  • Group facilitation to work with your teams to create opportunity and change
  • Team sessions where we’ll help your teams grow and develop

You can package this in different ways depending on the audience:


Why use Cerebra?

We work with organisations who truly believe that by investing in people, both they and the organisation will perform better.

If you choose to work with us, you’ll be able to tell others (such as your customers, teams, potential recruits, boss, Board, and other stakeholders) that you care enough about the people you work with to provide an environment where they can flourish, do their best work, and deliver great results. You can, for example:

  • report on Psychological Safety to the Board
  • promise recruits that you’ve invested in Psychological Safety
  • demonstrate you’ve made Psychological Safety a strategic pillar of your organisation
  • promote yourselves as ethical and responsible
  • demonstrate a safer, more responsive culture to customers, suppliers, and funders
  • highlight your investment in people.

We help your people to perform well; we’re sure it’s something that both you and your people prefer. This increases people’s productivity, creativity, and engagement. It improves their collaboration and delivery. It reduces costs associated with time to market, failure, absenteeism, turnover, and the resulting recruitment. We believe we’re a worthwhile investment.

Further, our work helps ensure that you provide adequate health and safety input for your teams, and provide an environment for them that maximises their outputs and outcomes for you.

Then there’s how we go about it.

We don’t sell things that don’t fit. We don’t give you a one-size-fits-all product just because it’s easier for us or that’s all we. an do. We customise to suit what you need. For example, one organisation asked for two days on wellbeing. They’d canvassed everyone, found out what people wanted, and we built a programme to suit, including a fully bespoke 60 page workbook. Based on questions we got on Day 1, we created additional material and handouts overnight, and had them ready to go for our 8.30am start on Day 2.

And importantly, our material is researched and evidence-based.

We’re not keen on fads, neuromyths (hello Learning Styles!), or pop psychology, and we aim to be able to reference what we do. Sometimes that means we might not endorse something that’s shiny and new because there isn’t enough research to support it. Over time of course, research might come to support it and so would we. We like to be confident in what we’re saying, and for you to be confident in us.

Lastly, we think that investment in your people is a valuable investment. We’d love to help.


Why you shouldn’t use Cerebra?

This is a good question to answer.

Let’s face it – we won’t suit everyone, and we’d rather you made an informed decision

We know you’ll have competing priorities, limited time, not enough budget, pressing demands, and a hundred other things to think about. If we can help make your choice easier, we’re happy too. So here’s a list of legitimate reasons we might not be for you, based on real feedback and discussions we’ve had with different groups.

We might not be for you if:

  • You don’t want to be able to tell people you’re a psychologically safe workplace. We’re not being cheeky here, we’re saying it doesn’t resonate with your organisation, or you’d rather say something else.
  • You like the idea of Psychological Safety, but it isn’t your highest priority right now. Fair enough. We’ll be here when your priorities change.
  • You can’t afford it. We think you’d be surprised and it’s worth having a conversation before you decide.
  • The concepts of Psychological Safety indicate that some people of influence will struggle to adapt, and it’s easier to leave them alone. We’ve heard this too. As one company said, let sleeping dogs retire!
  • Your organisation has used a one-off wellbeing workshop to provide wellbeing training. That’s not our approach and we think this, too, deserves a conversation.
  • You don’t really understand it. Surely it’s another fad. We’ve heard this and can show the the decades-long history and research behind it. Safe to say, it’s still here.

Otherwise, we’d love it it you dropped us a line or gave us a call.

Let’s talk.