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Session J - Pre-Conference Session
Wednesday, June 8, 5:15-7:15pm
Expanding Our Thinking Capability: Using Neuroplasticity and Biohacking to Keep Up With
the Robots
Presented by Pam Hartman and Marco Cassone
Why settle for the prevailing style of thought?
Be a leader in thought and action.
Improve your thinking about thinking.
Description: There are still many secrets to learn about the brain, but what Neuroscience is telling us is good news!
Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life, and
it also allows for the neurons (nerve cells) in the brain to compensate for injury and disease and to adjust their
activities in response to new situations or to changes in their environment. Biohacking is to use system
thinking, science, biology, and self-experimentation to take control of and upgrade your body, mind, and your
life. Knowledge of both will increase your performance, and lead to a happier, more productive life. You may
even be able to teach the robots a thing or two!
Target Audience: This interactive workshop will be useful to anyone who wants to learn how to break through the
barriers of cognitive impasse! The tools and techniques can be used for personal transformation and for
increasing your effectiveness as a leader or follower.
Organizational Issues: We are facing an unprecedented complexity challenge in our organizations. The human
brain is wired to react and protect itself from the high-demand, stressful workplace. When we overwhelm our brain,
it automatically tries to revert back to the comfort of cave-like thinking! The key is to use insights from
neuroscience, and technological advances to free ourselves and bypass the back brain, releasing our true capacity
for creativity and super-intelligence. In the weeks before September 11th
, the US Army War College coined the term
“VUCA” to stand for volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments. A new level of interconnection and
interdependence being driven by globalization, information technology, economic and political instability, and
climate that requires a new kind of leadership.

Objectives: An interactive session engaging mind, body and heart:
 Understand that the highest leadership of all balances the 3 brains working together. (Mind, Heart and Gut)
 Getting your “VUCA” on…assessing your cognitive and leadership ability.
 How does Neuroplasticity show up in organizations?
 How do we use insights from neuroscience and the new health technologies to re-boot, re-fresh and re-
energize our minds and bodies?
 Walk out with a commitment to integrate one new habit that could multiply your neural pathways, and
increase your thinking capacity!
Cost: None
Pre-work: None
Materials Needed: None (We will be providing Brain Power snacks)
Handouts: Available for download after the Forum
Biography: In early 2014, Pamela Hartman was seeking some time off
after many years of intense project work, managing change on global,
corporate IT transformations. A friend steered her to volunteer at the
Salvation Army Bell Shelter’s new Neurofeedback clinic established to
help recovering addicts and veterans with PTSD. What Pamela thought
would simply be an interesting break, quickly turned into trial by fire and
a tremendous learning experience into a new field of alternative health.
She continues to work one day a week at the shelter leading Alpha Theta
Neurofeedback and Spiritual practice groups.
With a revved up life’s focus, Pamela continues her consulting work for
organizational effectiveness with a new spin that goes deeper into the
wellness capability of a leader’s thinking capacity - beyond mere
coaching - integrating neuroscience, frequency tools, and functional medicine. She started a home-based
private practice, Neuro-Wize, to assist others with alternative personal brain training services such as
NeurOptimal Neurofeedback, Lenyo PEMF (Pulse Electric Magnetic Frequency) BRT (BioRegulation Therapy)
mats, and conducts brain health workshops with the goal to infuse more happiness into the day-to-day life of a
leader. In early 2016 she will begin an intensive 9-month program to become a certified Biohacking Coach with
Dave Asprey, the Bulletproof Executive and Coffee guru.
As an early pioneer in Human Resources, Pamela looks forward to becoming more involved in advising
organizations how to break new ground and establish Brain Training Spas or Biohacking Clinics to spur greater
creativity and collaboration. She graduated from the University of Oregon with both a B.S. and M.S. in Public
Management after 10 years in the U.S. Air Force as one of the first female Law Enforcement Officers. Pamela
has worked in many countries both in the military, and as a corporate consultant. She and her partner live on a
ranch in north LA county with horses, llamas, chickens, rescue cats, and multiple bird species.

Biography: Marco Cassone, MSOD, has 10 years of
experience working as a facilitator, educator, and
performance coach to small-to-medium businesses
throughout North America, Europe, and Southeast
Asia. Early in his career, Marco designed and facilitated
experiential learning programs for workforce
sensitivity, diversity and inclusion, and conflict
management. These honed his skills in addressing
group dynamics, communication, and organizational
trust and alignment. Marco’s recent professional focus
has targeted executive coaching, leadership
development, and team building offsites for senior
leaders in industries including healthcare, entertainment, and media/technology, as well as in
the government public sector. Marco’s study of the behavioral sciences culminated in
graduate research on transformation in human systems, with an M.S. in Organization
Development from Pepperdine University. Marco currently serves as an elected Trustee on the
national Board of the Organization Development Network, overseeing member engagement
for the largest professional association of OD practitioners in the world.