Build With Your Brain: The Neuropsychology of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
This is part of the Female Founders Rise Summer School for Founders. Check out our other summer sessions here.
Every founder has absorbed the same advice: wake up at 5am, block your calendar, batch your admin, run your day like the productivity gurus say to. Some of it works. A lot of it doesn't - and when it doesn't, most founders don't blame the advice. They blame themselves.
That's the wrong conclusion. The founders who build sustainably aren't the ones who found the perfect system. They're the ones who understand how their own brain actually works - how they pay attention, what motivates them, how they make decisions under pressure, how stress shows up for them specifically - and build around that instead of against it.
In this Summer School masterclass, Dr. Elizabeth Mateer - a Harvard-affiliated neuropsychology fellow, speaker, and founder of PsychDraft, an AI-powered platform for clinical documentation, who translates psychology, neuroscience, and her own experience building a company into practical tools for founders - will show you how to build with your brain instead of against it.
This session is particularly geared towards founders who've tried the standard advice and found it doesn't quite fit, though the principles apply to anyone building or leading under pressure.
You'll leave with:
A clearer view of your individual founder operating style - how your natural patterns of attention, motivation, decision-making, and stress influence the way you lead and build
Practical ways to structure your time, environment, and workload around how you function best, rather than copying someone else's playbook
Tools for managing imposter syndrome, protecting your attention, asking for support, and building a version of success you can actually sustain
Speaker:
Dr. Elizabeth Mateer, Founder, PsychDraft
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The Female Founders Rise Summer School for Founders is here to kickstart your business growth with 30 trusted experts in the ecosystem. Our mission this summer is to upskill 1,000 female and non-binary founders on all things entrepreneurship.
Whether you're a founder, student, or simply curious to learn more, this is open to everyone (and it's free). And no need to be a member of FFR, but you can join free here.