2026 LeadForward Summit / Day 1 / Keynote / Higher Brain State

Mentorship and Your Organization’s Higher Brain State / Lori Crever February 18, 2026 / 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PST SESSION DESCRIPTION: Evidence suggests that any organization — collectively and metaphorically — has an organizational brain. What brain state is formed inside your company stems from your organization’s individual parts, along with its commonly experienced connecting vibrations and patterns. An organizational brain might be low functioning, medium functioning, high functioning, dysfunctioning, or malfunctioning. When you intentionally plan for and foster active mentorship on career and industry topics, the result is more robust and desirable connectivity typified by interchanges of truth and meaning between individual parts — your people, teams and departments. That steady strengthening of genuine connections — imagine organizational highways that prioritize intentional trafficking of useful and accurate information — means an increase in the organizational ‘frontal cortex’ functions and a decrease in ‘fight, freeze, or flight’ behavior observed in lower brain states from your collective organizational amygdala. With mentorship embedded in your workplace culture, teams experience better coherence, coordination, and cohesion. Fostering intentional career and industry mentorship is such an inexpensive talent retention and brain health regimen for your team and company. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Elevating the Workplace: Mentorship is more than a professional development tool — it's a catalyst for elevating an organization’s collective mindset and performance. The Organizational Brain: Just as an individual has a brain, research shows us that a group has a brain. Mentorship in a professional setting constructively and positively impacts the organizational brain. Inspiring Trust, Engagement, and Individual Careers: Intentional mentoring accelerates careers by: Halting the dwindling spiral of lower brain state responses in the workplace Strengthening organizational culture by tapping into higher brain state functions Creating workplace culture ripple effects that far outlast any formal program --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mentoring Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a mentoring community for aspiring and seasoned leaders. Anywhere in the world, we help working people find mentors who can guide them to develop skills they need to achieve their career and life goals. We help mentees fulfill their goals through meaningful work that creates positive impact in the world. As mentees become leaders, our dream is for them to become mentors to others. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #TheMentoringClub #MentorsAndLeaders #Leadership #LieselMendoza #CareerDevelopment #MentoringMatters #Mentoring #Happiness #Success #MeaningfulWork #MakeTheWorldBetter #PassionAndPurpose #Vision #Execution #MentorsAndLeaders #LeadershipDevelopmentMentoring #GiveBackLeadForward #leadforwardsummit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Become a mentee: https://www.thementoringclub.org/get-... Become a mentor: https://www.thementoringclub.org/be-a... Donate: https://thementoringclub.org/ Volunteer: https://thementoringclub.org/contact/