An award-winning documentary on how leaders can optimise brain and body performance to thrive in the 21st Century.
Expecting people in leadership positions to solve all the challenges we face in the world today is largely futile.
The ‘Make Me A Leader’ documentary shows the importance of embracing our own leadership and developing a new mindset for the future.
We originally produced the ‘Make Me A Leader’ Documentary in 2018 with the intention of helping all of us understand how important it is to develop our personal leadership.
Leaders are now currently facing highly complex situations and are required to lead (and follow) in an uncertain and volatile world. It is important that we come together in these times. We must develop a new mindset for the future if we want to solve our global problems, continue to progress and create a better society.
In light of this, on March 31st 2020, we made our documentary available online for anyone to watch on demand, for free. Our world needs better leaders, now more than ever. Are you ready to redefine leadership?
The ‘Make Me A Leader’ Documentary was self-funded and produced by award-winning leadership expert Silvia Damiano and her team at the About my Brain Institute. Silvia traveled the globe to interview experts and discover how to adapt our brains in a changing world - where ‘creativity’ replaces ‘knowledge’ as our most valuable leadership quality.
Silvia Damiano founded the About my Brain Institute in 2009, with the purpose of democratising leadership & neuroscience. She has a passionately held belief, that leaders in our 21st century global economy and their organisations must radically change long-held ideas of what constitutes effective leadership.
In her ground-breaking 2014 book ‘Leadership Is Upside Down’, 2018 documentary ‘Make Me A Leader’ and 2020 book ‘Brain-Friendly Leadership’, Silvia provides both compelling evidence and explores the importance of leadership performance in our personal and professional lives and what it takes to develop the ‘human behind the leader’.
In this film, Silvia proposes the idea of everyone embracing their own leadership to successfully navigate the challenges and opportunities that the Imagination Age presents.
‘Make Me A Leader’ sheds a new light into how to develop the leaders of the future. It suggests a new mindset based on science that integrates our entire biological system from the brain down.
This film will allow you to reflect on what leadership needs to look like and provide you with strategies on how to improve your wellbeing and performance.
Through various leadership stories and interviews with scientists, you will gain insights into; the power of the heart, brain health & technology, the science of meditation, sleep health, the mind-gut connection, how to fight sedentarism and how to develop resilience to adapt more effectively.
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Watch It Here NowMake Me A Leader has won 8 international awards!
A great balance of inspiration, science, practical advise and testimonials from some of the world's best leaders and thinkers, ‘Make Me A Leader’ is a must watch for people who take the challenge of human leadership in the new world seriously.
Bradley Andrews
President at Worley
A great balance of inspiration, science, practical advise and testimonials from some of the world's best leaders and thinkers, ‘Make Me A Leader’ is a must watch for people who take the challenge of human leadership in the new world seriously.
Judith E. Glaser
Chairman of the Creating WE Institute
This beautifully produced film not only captures a new, far more holistic approach to leadership, drawing on neuroscience and breakthrough research on the brain but also the journey that Silvia herself has taken to role-model leadership for the future world of work. Slivia is true inspiration for all current and potential leaders.
Misti Melville
Global Human Resources Director at Buro Happold
Silvia and the team did a wonderful job in curating contemporary science, with the emotion of leadership that we are working with now. I thoroughly recommend the film to those who are curious about the physical, emotional, and 'spiritual' aspects of leadership development, all underwritten with good science and experience.
Skander Malcolm
Managing Director & CEO at OFX
‘Make Me A Leader’ was mind-blowing and yet made so much sense. It's the future of great leadership and shows how we can all be the best version of ourselves as well as bringing the best out in those around us too. The science-based evidence that sits behind the leadership values is explained by many incredible experts which is enlightening and fascinating. By implementing the strategies they share in this movie we can make sure we utilise our highest potential we have in each and every one of us. This includes how we show up at home, with family, friends, and in the workplace. I would say this is a ‘one to watch’ for anyone who wants to thrive as a human being. Thank you for bringing this movie to life and all the incredible work you do at About my Brain.
Julia Maunder
I've just watched ‘Make Me A Leader’ and I am deeply excited and hopeful. I have been a passionate of human development for many years and I can say that the proposal of Silvia Daminano has evolved everything. Damiano along with 28 experts make you understand the importance of your brain and body development towards the evolution as a leader and person. The documentary film is a gift for your life and for the people that are beside you, whether professionally or personally. Be prepared to have an absolutely moving experience.
Ricardo González Escobar
Featuring interviews with business leaders, academics, leadership specialists and world-renowned scientists.
About my Brain Institute
Centre for Brain,
Consciousness & Cognition
Maharishi University of Management, USA
‘Conversational Intelligence’
New York, USA
InteraXon
Toronto, Canada
College of Integrative Medicine
Maharishi University of Management, USA
Advanced Brain Monitoring
Carlsbad, USA
Amen Clinics
USA
G Oppenheimer Center
for Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience, UCLA, USA
Movement Expert & Author
‘Hidden World’ Sydney, Australia
Author of ‘The Sleep Diet’
Sydney, Australia
Queensland Government, Australia
Australia
Advisian Digital, Australia
Manpower Group, Spain
BuroHappold Engineering, UK
Heart Math, USA
The Langley Group, Australia
Syzygy Dance Project, USA
OFX, Australia
The Toronto Star, Canada
RAW Impact, Cambodia
Executive Development Public Service, Australia
‘mBraining’, Australia
Leadership, USA
Ottawa, Canada
John Grill Centre, Australia
Australia
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It’s clear that Silvia Damiano has been on a noble quest to understand how we can all become better people in every aspect of our lives. This film is really well constructed and very engaging.
The Make Me A Leader Documentary clearly points the way, through a carefully constructed and evidence-based framework, to providing us with the knowledge and tools to take our destiny into our own hands to become effective leaders at all levels of the organisation and outside of work.
Personally, I was left feeling inspired and energised by the prospect of positive change and improvement through understanding and seeing to the health and alignment of brain, heart & gut.
Michael Wright
Deputy Secretary
Public Service
NSW, Australia
A special thank you to the people who appear throughout the film and assisted in the process.
Alison Pate • Executive Coach & Mentor
Anna Bligh • Former Premier, Queensland Government
Bradley Andrews • President, Advisian Digital
Helen Lyons • Executive Director, Executive Development Public Service
Juan Carlos Cubeiro • Head of Talent, Manpower Group
Misti Melville • Global Human Resources Director, BuroHappold Engineering
Yvonne Coburn • Leadership Development and Executive Coach
Sue Langley • Founder & CEO, The Langley Group
Sylvie Minot • Co-Founder & Director, Syzygy Dance Project
Skander Malcolm • Managing Director & CEO, OFX
Shree Paradkar • Journalist, The Toronto Star
Troy Roberts • Founder, RAW Impact
Brooke Schiller • Leadership Consultant & Coach
Grant Soosalu • Author ‘mBraining’
Bruce Cryer • Former CEO, Heart Math
Karina Reggenesier • Student of Business & Management, Zeppelin University
Kim Pate • Senator, Ottawa - Canada
Maurizio Floris • Program Director, John Grill Centre
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