The science of how great leaders connect, coach, and change.
Dr. Dan Docherty turns neuroscience into the practical skill of leadership communication, helping teams connect, build trust, drive change, and perform when it matters most.
Chief Coaching Officer at Braintrust • Professor at Miami University • Author of NeuroCoaching
Talks audiences never forget.
Every session is grounded in behavioral neuroscience and built to move people from insight to action. Dan can also fully customize a topic for your audience.
The Neuroscience of Trust®
How leaders build the trust required to drive performance, accelerate change, and create cultures where people are more open, aligned, and ready to act.
Leading Change Under Pressure
A science-backed approach to helping leaders communicate through uncertainty, reduce resistance, and keep teams focused, engaged, and moving forward.
Mastering Situational Conversations
how leaders can turn everyday coaching moments into moments of trust, clarity, accountability, and performance.
Building a Sustainable Coaching Climate ®
How organizations can move beyond one-off training and create a sustainable coaching culture that improves engagement, retention, communication, and performance.
Emotional Intelligence Is the Performance Advantage
A modern, neuroscience-backed look at why emotional intelligence is not a soft skill, but a leadership multiplier for influence, trust, resilience, and results.
Generational Communication That Works
How leaders can bridge communication gaps across generations by understanding values, motivation, trust, feedback, and the need for purpose-driven connection.
The Dream Leader
How great leaders move beyond transactional management and become transformational relationship builders.
Authentic Storytelling for Influence
How authentic stories build trust, create emotional connection, and make ideas memorable.
Hosting an event? Tell Dan your audience and outcome. He will shape the room around it.
The Dream Leader
Dan's forthcoming book on what it takes to lead in a way people remember, blending decades of coaching practice with the neuroscience of human connection.
It builds on the framework he developed with Jeff Bloomfield in NeuroCoaching, a journey-based guide to mastering the conversations that build trust, elevate performance, and create lasting impact.
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A scientist's mind for a human craft.
I have spent my career obsessed with one question: what actually makes a great leader, and can it be taught? Twenty-five years leading sales, marketing, medical, and operational teams in the pharmaceutical world gave me the pattern. A PhD in Management at Case Western Reserve gave me the proof.
My research focused on the neuroscience of coaching, engagement, and performance inside the leader and team-member relationship. Today I bring that work to the stage as Chief Coaching Officer at Braintrust, to the classroom as a professor at Miami University, and to the page as an author.
My passion is simple: creating world-class communicators who make a positive difference, one conversation at a time.
What leaders say after the room clears.
Dan's passion, knowledge, and gift of connecting principles into action gave us a giant leap forward, as a group and as individual leaders.
Coaches coach and leaders lead. Dan inspires both. His passion for the subject and unique, tested approach will not disappoint.
Over three years, Dan helped us become better coaches and storytellers. Our sales results and internal satisfaction scores rose significantly.
Within the first few minutes, students were engaged and participating as if they had known Dan for years, ready to jump into the adventure.
Bring Dan to your next stage.
Your audience will experience trust, change, and decision-making in a way they will never forget. Let's talk about your event.