Clare Edwards
Winning the S.O.C.I.A.L Dating Game!
Clare is the Principal of BrainSmart People Development, a boutique consultancy committed to enabling people to work smarter, lead better, build great teams and thrive in change. She has been an avid student of the Neuroscience of Leadership and Change for over 13 years and uses practical, evidence-based neuroscience as a foundation to help her clients understand their amazing brains and use this knowledge to develop themselves and others.
Clare has extensive experience of working with international businesses and in the hospitality and IT industry, spending 16 years working at senior management level with European and American organisations. Roles included Head of Corporate Development for XO Global Communications, Customer Manager and Customer Marketing Manager for SAP UK, and Head of Support Services EMEA for Datapro Research Corporation.
Working in and managing multinational teams has provided Clare with intuitive ability to sense challenges and opportunities in inter-team dynamics, to help organisations create or enhance their culture and to facilitate sustainable change through people. Clare has worked with organisations in the UK, USA, SE Asia and Australia, including commercial, public sector and not for profit clients.
Clare is a highly experienced facilitator and is accredited in a variety of 360, team, leader and behavioural profiling tools.
When not working Clare likes nothing more than to immerse herself in nature and go camping, to dance (Tap and Zumba) and to continue to study her passion for everything ‘brain’!
Join her workshop –
Winning the S.O.C.I.A.L Dating Game! is an exploration of leading human-centred change through the S.O.C.I.A.L framework (it’s a variation on a theme of SCARF and, ImHO, an improvement!).
Using the dating metaphor we collectively uncover how we can connect best when the following needs, desires and values are taken into account in change – dating is the metaphor that we carry over to change later in the workshop.
The S.O.C.I.A.L model stands for:-
Safety – both physical and psychological (I have a voice)
Objectivity – perception of fairness, equity and justice (I’m treated equitably)
Certainty – the need to know predict (I know what’s expected)
Importance – a sense of validation, recognition and status (I matter)
Autonomy – the perception of choice or control (I am empowered)
Love (Connection) – belonging to a tribe, knowing that someone cares (I belong)
Workshop participants will come out with a deep appreciation of their unique hierarchy of S.O.C.I.A.L needs and how this impacts their behaviour, engagement and productivity when experiencing change, especially when these needs are not being met AND what to do about it!
