All the Brains in the Business

Kate Lanz is founder and CEO of Mindbridge, an executive coaching and business performance consultancy specializing in applied neuroscience. Before consulting and coaching, she held senior international roles in business, notably with Diageo. Kate’s fascination with accessing individual motivation at work led to her second degree, a BSc in psychology, before she went on to an MBA and now her ongoing doctoral research into brain gender difference in business.

Dr. Paul Brown is a consulting clinical and organizational psychologist, executive coach, and supervisor. He was chairman of the Association for Professional and Executive Coaching and Supervision, APECS; has been Visiting Professor in Organizational Neuroscience at London South Bank University and in Individual and Organizational Psychology at Nottingham Law School; started the first MSc in Organizational Neuroscience; and is now Professor of Organizational Neuroscience, Monarch Business School, Switzerland. He consults and teaches widely, especially in Southeast Asia.

Ann Richardson is an award-winning narrator. With a background of drama and music prevalent in her Midwestern upbringing, she delights in narrating fiction and portraying characters with a variety of accents, including Scandinavian and Southern U.S. Being of Swedish heritage is an important facet of Ann's life, as her father was a Swedish immigrant, and she travels to Sweden every few years to spend time with family and brush up on speaking the language. In her spare time Ann is a volunteer narrator for Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic), and also enjoys sculpting, painting, long-distance running, and hanging out with her family in Northern California.