The Book
Brain-Fueled Workplace
Harnessing Neuroscience for Performance, Innovation, Transformation, and Growth
In the race to innovate, transform, and grow, many businesses overlook a critical step: building the engine that powers performance. The results are costly, with alarming rates of burnout, disengagement, and failed transformations worldwide.
The Solution
$10+ Trillion Lost Annually as Companies Invest in the Wrong Solutions
Global change leader and corporate communication visionary Chaela Volpe offers a solution: Strategy Enablement — a vital new business function powered by a revolutionary, neuroscience-based planning model to optimize individual, team, and business performance.
Drawing on two decades immersed in high-stakes strategic initiatives, Chaela provides a clear path to uplift the workforce and achieve exceptional results.
Brain-Fueled Workplace will help you:
- ✓Reimagine strategic communication, employee engagement, and change management as one cohesive discipline that supports cognitive processes.
- ✓Implement a project-driven, integrated planning method to align interdependent groups for operational excellence.
- ✓Eliminate silos to boost productivity, efficiency, and collaboration while reducing risks and costs to both employee well-being and the business.
If you want to save time, increase profits, and help your workforce thrive, this book is a must-read.
Neuroscience at Work
Engagement, communication, and change — connected through the brain
Brain-Fueled Workplace reveals the consequences of brain-undermining communication and presents a solution to empower the workforce — ensuring success includes both exceptional business outcomes and employee well-being.
The book draws on leading-edge insights from experts in disciplines including neuroscience, social psychology, business strategy, management, operations, and communication — translated into a practical, project-driven method: The Performance Optimization Planning Model (The POP Model™).
- ✓Engagement focuses on the work itself — enthusiasm for both the work and the workplace.
- ✓Communication drives daily operations with the clarity the brain craves.
- ✓Change becomes an ongoing process — not a one-time event.
Endorsements
Praise for Brain-Fueled Workplace
“Chaela is a visionary coach and advisor whose practical, results-driven approach has the power to transform workplace culture and operations. Brain-Fueled Workplace is a must-read for those responsible for low-risk strategy delivery, and leaders who genuinely care about their people.”
“Chaela has woven together significant life and workplace experiences, honed in a range of companies around the world, with leading-edge insights from experts in disciplines including neuroscience, social psychology, business strategy, management, operations, and communication, among many others. The result is a compelling and actionable exploration of what it takes to meaningfully improve the workplace and enhance the workforce experience — providing a practical solution that redefines the role of communication in driving performance excellence.”
“An innovative, highly strategic application of coaching to help businesses break counterproductive behavior cycles to uplift the workforce shaping the future.”
“Finally, an effective solution for engaging employees in their work to navigate complex transitions and drive change. Chaela presents a commonsense approach to rally teams to action and align them for high performance — one that is comprehensive, consistent, measurable, and cost effective.”
“Brain-Fueled Workplace delivers performance optimization capabilities to businesses of any size and in any industry. Chaela’s vital new planning model brings connectivity, structure, and impeccable organization to our work, transforming how we operate and the results we can achieve.”
“Brilliant! A compelling review of what the human brain experiences on the front lines of the modern workplace, and practical steps to optimize individual, team, and business performance. By transforming employees into active agents of change — rather than recipients who struggle to keep pace — we can maximize their contributions and, in turn, what businesses can achieve.”
“Exactly the kind of thought leadership we need right now! Brain-Fueled Workplace is the culmination of strategies Chaela has tested worldwide. Her proven approach helps leaders guide diverse, global teams through uncharted waters, dismantles siloes, deepens engagement, and transforms communication, collaboration, and operations.”
The Author
Chaela Volpe
Visionary Chaela Volpe pioneers the fusion of strategic communication, employee engagement, and change management into a powerful neuroscience-based approach. Her mission is to optimize individual, team, and business performance, helping organizations eliminate costly struggles, elevate their workforce, and reach the next level of success. In 2025, Chaela authored Brain-Fueled Workplace: Harnessing Neuroscience for Performance, Innovation, Transformation, and Growth to further this mission.
Chaela has held global and regional leadership roles at top multinational corporations, including Thomson Reuters, adidas Group, Accenture, and EY — and is a NeuroLeadership Institute Results Trained Coach and a certified Prosci Change Practitioner.
Bring the Solution Home
Ready to fuel your workplace with thriving minds?
Read Brain-Fueled Workplace for the full solution — or start a conversation about Strategy Enablement for your organization.