Neuroscience for Conquering Burnout and Productivity in the Age of Distraction

The Downward Spiral Data

• 2013: We checked our smartphones 150 times/day.
• 2023: We checked our smartphones 352 times/day. 
• 2004: Average work task length: 2.2 minutes.
• 2022: Average work task length: 40 seconds.

The Costs of Distraction

• 6-8 hours per day: The amount of work time each American loses each weekday to distraction and distraction-driven errors.
• 72 minutes: the TOTAL length of time each work day when professionals are NOT receiving texts, emails, alerts, requests for attention (According to RescueTime data on 50,000 users from 2018—6 years ago).
• The high incidence of task switching and distraction has increased rates of heart attack, stroke, cancer, and depression.

Tools to CONQUER THESE ISSUES!

• Problem Identification (fun with neuroscience and evolutionary biology)
• Team-wide Tribe Tools
• Dopamine Process Detox  (Different from digital detox)
• Gamification (To make it even more fun)
• Neuroscience of Sales Pipeline—with detailed strategies, rehearsals, and accountability to ensure implementation

What Results Do We Get?

• Everyone gets more done in less time with less stress.
• Team-wide KPIs achieve breakthrough results
• Better team collaboration
• Better work-life balance for everyone

Nora Simpson Biography

Nora Simpson is the creator of a neuroscience-based approach to achieving radical breakthroughs in revenue, profit, productivity, and fulfillment for businesses and teams. Nora has customized her tools for the unique needs of more than 700 companies in 80+ industries to address business development, sales, team collaboration, productivity,  strategy, operations, and all manner of growth issues.

She has given hundreds of keynote speeches and workshops for elite organizations, including General Electric, the Centers for Disease Control, Nasdaq, RXR, Keller Williams Real Estate, The Corcoran Group, Compass Real Estate, Brown Harris Stevens, the CEO Trust, the CEO Club of America, the Executive Forum, Merrill Lynch, Amtrust Bank, Guardian Life, Tiger 21, Columbia Business School, and the French-American Chamber of Commerce.

She is the author of two books: Get Ahead and Stay Ahead: Use the Secrets of Your Own Brain to Unleash Your Success at Work (2015) and Getting Started in Money Recovery: Healing the Traumas that Drive Money Dysfunction (2023).