Cognitive Leadership: Mastering Skills for Powerful Decision-Making

Cognitive Leadership: Mastering Strategic Decision-Making

Effective decision-making is crucial for leaders to drive team performance and organizational success. This programme helps leaders harness cognitive leadership to make better, more strategic decisions in complex, fast-changing environments. Participants will explore the science behind decision-making, understand cognitive biases, and develop the skills to align decisions with both short-term goals and long-term visions.

Balancing Emotional Intelligence and Adaptive Leadership for Better Decisions

In addition to analytical thinking, decision-making requires balancing emotional awareness, empathy, and logic. This course empowers leaders to connect meaningfully with others, respond to challenges with composure, and enhance team dynamics. By focusing on critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and adaptive leadership, participants will build the cognitive flexibility to navigate complexity and uncertainty, using frameworks like VUCA and BANI. Structured tools like SWOT analysis and stakeholder mapping will further support leaders in making high-stakes decisions and evaluating risks and opportunities.

At the end of this programme, participants will:

• Understand the concept of cognitive leadership, its role in effective decision-making, and the science behind how leaders think and decide.
• learn to integrate emotional awareness, logic, and empathy to improve the quality and outcomes of their leadership decisions.
• Identify common cognitive biases, assess their impact, and apply techniques to minimize bias and enhance objective decision-making.
• Apply structured decision-making tools to evaluate long-term goals, manage risks, and balance stakeholder interests effectively.
• Strengthen cognitive flexibility and adopt models like VUCA and BANI to make sound decisions amid ambiguity, change, and disruption.

This course is perfect for:

• Emerging leaders who are experienced individual contributors, are already leading project teams, and are a step away from formally leading a team of their own.
• First Time Leaders who have been recently promoted to formally lead a team of their own, and need to get up to speed on what it means to lead and manage others. 
• Experienced managers, Supervisors, and Team leaders looking to refresh their understand of the topic with new insights and research will also benefit.
• Heads of department looking to empower their leadership to make better decisions, in order to free up their own time for other essential HOD-related matters.

"Engaging trainer with good knowledge and experience. Mr Daniel is able to deliver the key requirement on leading and developing a high performing team."

"Highly motivated and intellectual and public speaker. Who can engage greatly with the audience. Engaging, truthful, inspiring."

"The DISC logic. Am excited to apply it. Very engaging, loud and clear voice and funny. First time i actually found a workshop helpful and never fall asleep!"

"The content is applicable for real life applications. Topics covered on leadership are actually relatable at work."

"Share his experiences with good knowledge. Ability to comprehend & expand on what participant voices out."

Daniel Lee – Leadership Coach, Speaker, and Author

Over 20 years of working in Australia and Singapore, Daniel Lee has accumulated a vast experience and know-how in speaking, training, and coaching participants from different cultures and work backgrounds. 

He started his career with the Singapore Police Force and achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant. After which he pursued his Double Masters in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Then he continued on a career in the Human Resources industry across the Manufacturing, Professional services, and Facilities Management sectors in Australia, and with the Banking and Finance sector in Singapore. 

From 2017 onwards, Daniel did a career switch with a focus on the education industry working with youths, and later on from mid 2018 onwards, to working with adult learners. 

Currently with his signature programme, First Time Leadership, he enables team leaders to engage their team with effectiveness and Enthusiasm, resulting the outcomes of improved leader Confidence, higher employee Engagement, and reliable team Performance.

Having become a published author in 2021 with his book ‘First Time Leadership’, which he co-authored with Avi Liran, he knows that leadership is an amalgamation of skillsets and mindsets. His research allows him to reveal the science behind how leadership works, and walk others through the journey on how to become effective team leaders.

In 2022, Daniel began to interview Heads of Departments in his latest research, Leading from the Middle, to uncover what it takes to be an effective leader of leaders.

With an ever evolving understanding of team and organization leadership, along with its practical real world applications, Daniel takes the view that learners already subconsciously know how to achieve the desired outcomes. His role is to bring awareness to them, so they can become intentional professionals in their own fields. 

Daniel has received many positive client and participant testimonials and Google reviews from his work in the Leadership space.