If you are interested in understanding why human beings do/say/think and live the way they do, Dr. Irena O'Brien has created one of the most efficient and effective neuroscience education programs in North America. From the depth of research and relevant scientific information that is delivered--and remains accessible for a year or more--as well as the weekly class review over 16 weeks, I learned more about neuroscience in 16 weeks than I'd learned in 16 years--and I'm even a behavioral scientist! Well worth the time, investment and commitment if you are in a profession that requires you to interface with humans to coach/treat/counsel/parent/co-exist, etc. And, the research will be personally beneficial to you as well, in navigating your own challenges around health, nutrition, sleep hygiene and general daily life.

This program covers so many concepts that are relevant to my work with clients. Irena's direct, intellectual but no-nonsense style is so natural and appealing, a pleasure to watch, listen to, and participate with. When I signed up for this program, I didn't want to cover coaching concepts I already knew. I needed someone to go deeper and to explain the physiology behind why we humans behave the way we do so that I could help my clients understand themselves (and other people!) better and why they have challenges changing their behavior, even when they think they have a strong desire to change their habits. My clients love it when I talk about their brains and give them easy to relate to insight and ideas for improving their effectiveness. My engineers and scientists, especially, resonate well with these topics. I loved this program and highly recommend it.

Irena is as passionate as knowledgeable on the topic on Neuroscience. She is a reference in our coaching community here in Montreal. Her program is well presented, thoroughly documented and enhanced by Q&A calls which all go for a deep dive on topics requiring more discussions. If you are seeking to understand the scientific reasons driving behaviours, and how to help your clients understand and manage their own, this is the course you want to take. As a bonus, you will join a community of practicing coaches. I totally recommend it.

For any coach wanting to deepen their understanding of how the brain, mind and body work together, I highly recommend Dr. Irena O'Brien's course in Applied Neuroscience. This course was well put together and organized in a way that makes a lot of sense. It is important as a coach to learn about some of the research that is conducted regarding the brain. The information is useful in understanding how the brain works and how to help clients understand complex information in a simplified way. The information on motivation and creating habits, among other insights, is highly useful for coaching clients. I am indebted to Dr. O'Brien for her thorough introduction to neuroscience in a way that I could comprehend and utilize with my own clients.

The Certificate Program in Applied Neuroscience is an outstanding program. It is rich with up-to-date research on neuroscience and neuropsychology with tools to assist our clients in transforming from the inside out. It gave me new scientific language for some of the work that I do that in the past was thought of as woowoo and I received a host of concepts and methodologies that I've used to assist myself as well as my clients in making lasting change. Irena is a dedicated researcher who provides great guidance and support throughout the course. I highly recommend this program.

The application of neuroscience course allows me to tie my leadership coaching practice principles and tools to science, which for me, was missing before this class. I love the idea of being able to show, via high level neuroscience, how the mind supports a lot of the work that my clients take on. On a personal note, the topics have intrigued me, helped me personally (health, body budget), and encouraged me to dig deeper and into more learning! I love that!

Out of the immense field of neuroscience, Dr. O'Brien has precisely selected topics highly relevant to coaching, as well as to everyday life for anyone. In many ways, the program is an instruction manual for how to use our brain-body for optimal living. As a coach, I have gained information that I can offer to every single one of my clients - and in that way, the learning is universal. Finally, I must mention that the format for the program is brilliantly geared for working adult learners who need the flexibility to study on our own time and at our own pace, yet within a structure that requires us to make continual progress throughout the program. Highly recommended.

I had a feeling I did not want to miss this class and I was right. What I have learned has been immediately applicable to my coaching and motivated me to go deeper in certain areas. Irena's material is current and cutting edge. I have found it to be an essential supplement to the health and wellness program I am concurrently in. At some point, all coaches should plan to find a time to take this course, you just don't get this stuff on Youtube.

I highly recommend The Neuroscience School created and led by Irena O’Brien, Ph.D. As a professional coach, the benefit to me understanding Neuroscience is simple - everyone has a brain and it is the source of our thoughts, decision-making abilities, emotions and creativity. The Neuroscience School provides complete & comprehensive suite of resources and information to draw and learn from. The knowledge I have accumulated this past year, has helped me to train, connect and lead at higher levels of human ability. To me, the more I know how the brain operates, the more I can guide my clients in all life areas to reach their full potential within their own personal and professional lives.

The neuroscience program developed by Irena is well structured and touches on various relevant subjects that I can integrated in my interventions with my clients. The different learning modes - listening to online content, testing our knowledge, creating a Facebook group, weekly meeting to answer our questions, questions developed to transfer our learning into practice, integrative project, section " Digest ”to stay up to date on new research in the field - facilitate the retention of information, despite the sometimes heavy content (neuroscience is all about the brain, a complex organ!). If you want to deepen your knowledge by relying on a scientific based approach which will help you support your clients in their endeavour: I recommend it.

Irena O’Brien is a wonderful women who is humble and bright at the same time. These qualities give her the ability to do great work. She is a researcher and works thoroughly in her area of expertise “Neuro-Sciences”. Thanks to her insights, I’ve become a better coach who can explain more about the functions that neuroscientists have discovered about the brain.

Irena O’Brien can bring all this down in very simple but profound words. Simplicity is the most difficult skill she has mastered. That’s one of the reasons why Irena O’Brien is the perfect match for everyone who wants to know more about the new sciences of the brain and who want to implement it in his or her Business.

As a coach of both athletes and entrepreneurs I have found Dr. Irena O'Brien's course on Applied Neuroscience to be indispensable. Dr. O'Brien has been able to boil down complex and cutting edge neuroscience concepts and research into a fascinating series of modules from neuroplasticity to motivation and resilience to name a few. Most importantly the course offers practical strategies designed to help move our coachees forward in such areas as changing behaviours and habits, improving focus and leadership skills. A+ !

I love the course, I love how you raise the issues, with scientific investigations, in a transparent way, with conclusive, less conclusive essays and even essays that propose contradictory theories. You explain very well and closely how to interpret scientific research and what conclusions can be drawn.

For me it is a great help for my work because it gives me more security when using criteria that I use from my own experience, intuition or work philosophy, such as creating an adequate work environment, the weight of the environment on the will, the balance mind body spirit, dividing a big goal into small steps etc. At the same time, being able to explain what happens in our brain during those moments is very important and helps a lot professionally.

On a personal level, it helps me more to deepen my self-knowledge and learning. I think it is very important for parents and leaders in general to know themselves and generate contexts in which people can give the best of themselves.

With the aim of deepening the videos, presentations and integrating the knowledge even more, I am teaching my family (Children, Nephews, Brothers) a small program every Saturday (1.5 hours) in which we go through and debate each chapter

I had the opportunity to take Dr. O’Brien’s course on Neuroscience and was just delighted with the course! Each module naturally built upon the prior one which made the learning seamless. I appreciated the manner in which the neuroscience concepts were discussed as they accommodated a wide range of experience levels in the class. The concepts were nicely aligned and very practical with how the information could be used in a coaching practice as well as your personal life. The course also brought together a wide variety of students from around the United States, Canada and other countries. I very much appreciated a more global perspective on how these concepts could be applied. The international class fellowship made for a rich experience. I am very pleased with the course content and highly recommend it to executive coaches, organizational psychologists, and others wanting to gain a better understanding of how to engage others in a way that helps bring out the best in them.

The Certificate in Applied Neuroscience For Coaches and Helping Professionals program that Dr. O’Brien has developed is excellent! It has been very beneficial for me to learn about the brain from a more holistic perspective. We learned how the brain affects the rest of your body and how the body affects your brain with your breathing, proper sleep, diet, and exercise. This is an amazing program for anyone to take.Whether your official title is coach or not, we are always assisting others with our words. With this program, you understand much more about how and why our words could possibly be received in many different ways. I highly recommend this program to anyone that interacts with others.