Brain research has been finding its way into teaching and the curriculum. Now, it can benefit school leadership with a new field of study called neuroleadership. Explains the web site of the organization sponsoring conferences and a new journal:

Neuroleadership is a new field of study fo­­cused on bringing neuroscientific knowledge into the area of leadership development, management training, education, consulting and coaching.

The topics of interest for the new journal (to be first published in September, 2008) define the scope of this emerging field:

1. Leadership development
Leadership presence
Leadership competencies
Influence
Innovation
Teaching leaders about the brain
Ethics and the brain
Decision making
Attention training
The neuroscience of mindfulness
Leadership assessments
New models for executive coaching

2. Systemic change
Culture
The neuroscience of social networks
Strategy
Financial literacy
Motivation, reward and recognition
Teams
Rethinking global training and development

3. Education
Children and learning
K-12
Bringing neuroscience into the business school

For more information, see The Global NeuroLeadership Summits