Virginia Palm spent over a decade at the intersection of tech, venture capital, and strategy consulting, including at McKinsey, working with founders and leadership teams across Europe and globally. She saw, up close, what high performance costs, and what most programmes completely miss. That sent her back to the science. She trained in neuroscience and psychology at the University of Chicago and Yale, and became a Senior Certified Professional Coach with a background in counselling psychology. She then founded Augment Mind on a single premise: performance is a biological system - measurable, trainable, and upgradeable. Today she works with executives and leadership teams worldwide, and hosts It's Me, Your Brain, a podcast with listeners in over 40 countries. Virginia brings a question we rarely hear from the main stage: what does the human brain actually need to keep delivering peak performance, especially in the age of AI?
95% of AI pilots fail to deliver measurable impact. Not because of the technology, because the human system running it was never designed for it. The prefrontal cortex (responsible for judgment and strategic thinking) is the first thing to degrade under cognitive overload. The …
