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Inside the Team Brain: The Neuropsychology of Leadership, Safety, and Cohesion

Dr. Bobbi Wegner is a psychologist, Harvard lecturer, and founder of Groops, where she specializes in the psychology of teams, leadership, and modern work. She teaches Organizational Psychology and Management at Harvard and is building a platform, in collaboration with Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, designed to democratize team psychology by giving every team access to support traditionally reserved for elite sports teams. The platform blends live team psychologists with AI-driven agentic team psychologists to help organizations measure and strengthen cohesion at scale. Bobbi’s work centers on helping HR and people leaders improve trust, communication, and alignment across fast-moving, distributed, and high-growth environments.

Presenter: Bobbi Wegner

Teams function like living neural systems, shaped by psychological and neurobiological processes that influence trust, safety, and collaboration. Dr. Bobbi Wegner explains how leaders signal safety, why teams disconnect, and what strengthens or erodes cohesion. She translates complex neuropsychology into simple, practical tools leaders can use to reduce friction, build alignment, and enhance resilience. Participants walk away with actionable strategies to improve team health and performance.

What you'll learn:

• Understand the neuropsychological mechanisms that influence trust, psychological safety, and team cohesion.  
• Identify leadership behaviors that signal safety, reduce threat responses, and promote stronger collaboration.  
• Learn how team dynamics are shaped by cognitive, emotional, and social processes that can either accelerate or sabotage performance.  
• Gain practical strategies for applying neuropsychology-informed tools to improve alignment, communication, and resilience within teams.