One-Night Stand or Lasting Relationship? Neuroscience Hacks for Successful Habit Change
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Describe the two neural pathways associated with motivation to change and goal setting.
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Apply a three-step individual change model (enlighten, encourage, and enable).
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Describe implementation intentions as a technique to enhance goal setting and behavior change efforts.
Educational Goal
The educational goal of this workshop is to help trainers and coaches apply evidence-based strategies and tips to facilitate setting, adopting, and maintaining behavior-oriented goals.
Description
People rarely wake up and spontaneously commit to initiating new behavior. Even when they do, few maintain new behaviors for long. This session presents 10 neuroscience-based “hacks” to help employees facilitate learning transfer and successfully set, adopt, and maintain behavior-oriented goals. The “hacks” are organized along two neural pathways to help trainers and coaches apply evidence-based strategies and tips to facilitate getting started and successfully striving in learning transfer and habit change efforts.
Target Audience
- Consulting Psychologists and Coaches
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Kenneth M. Nowack, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and Senior Research Officer of Envisia Learning, Inc. a global and leading assessment and technology company.
Dr. Nowack received his doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and has published three books, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It and From Insight to Improvement: Leveraging 360-degree Feedback, and his latest being published in early 2025 by ATD Press, Performance Feedback Strategies: Driving Successful Behavior Change. His academic book chapters, and peer reviewed articles in the areas of habit/behavior change, 360-degree feedback, leadership development, health psychology, and behavioral medicine.
He is the author of numerous validated leadership psychological, career, team, and health related assessments and simulations available by global publishing companies such as Manual Moderno, Hogrefe Publishing, and Prasad Psycho including the Stress Profile, Cognitive Hardiness Inventory, N8 Personality Inventory, Executive View 360, Emotional Intelligence View 360, Manager View 360, Leader TrustView 360, NeuroTeamView, Leadership eBasket Simulation, Career Profile Inventory, and others.
Ken is a member of Daniel Goleman’s Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations and served as the Editor-in-Chief for the American Psychological Association Consulting Psychology Journal. He is recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association Division 13: Society of Consulting Psychology.
When not conducting research, writing, teaching, and speaking Ken has served on numerous health non-profit boards as an active volunteer and has been an active puppy raiser of ten guide/service dogs for Guide Dogs of America, Los Angeles with his wife Denise for many years.
Financially Sponsored By
- Society for Consulting Psychology