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Virginia Palm
Leadership and Culture

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Neuro-Leadership Advisor to Leadership Teams and organizations, Founder, Keynote Speaker, ex-McKinsey

Keynote speaker, workshop leader, subject-matter expert, and coach

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Speaking fees
$3,000 to $9,000
3 sessions below
Formats
Keynote, Workshop
In person or virtual
Based in
Munich, Germany, Germany
Travels internationally. Travel from Munich, Germany, billed at cost.
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Sessions and fees

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Leading Under Pressure: Judgment in the Age of AI

$6,500
Includes a pre-event survey and a prep call. Travel from Munich billed at cost, when applicable.
KeynoteUnder 1 hourIn person or virtual
For entrepreneurs and business owners, CEOs and senior executives, executive peer groups, next-generation leaders, general corporate audiences, and boards and nonprofit leaders.

Most leaders now review AI outputs with a tired brain, between two meetings. This keynote shows what stress, overload and uncertainty do to judgment, and why trusting a tool more often means questioning it less. Before the event, attendees answer a short anonymous survey; the results are revealed live, so the room sees its own picture, not a generic one. Includes a prep call with the organizer and up to 15 minutes of Q&A.

  • A clear picture of what overload does to your own judgment, drawn from the room’s own anonymous survey results.
  • The Judgment Check: five questions to ask before you trust, override or slow down on an AI output.
  • One change to try in your next leadership meeting to make better calls when the day is full.
Session details and terms
Promotion: Optional invitation, only if you agree. The Leadership Diagnostic for leadership teams, plus the free Judgment Check tool (Augment Mind): A closing slide with a QR code to the free Judgment Check, and one sentence mentioning that I run a Leadership Diagnostic for leadership teams. At the very end, about one minute. Happy to leave it out if you prefer. Required purchases: None. Attendee follow-up: Only with attendees who choose to hear from Virginia. Only people who scan the QR code and sign up themselves. They get the Judgment Check by email, then my bi-weekly newsletter, and can unsubscribe at any time. I never ask for or use the attendee list.

Your Team’s Best Thinking Back: A Leadership Offsite Session

$9,000
Includes the pre-session survey, a prep call and a written summary. Travel from Munich billed at cost.
WorkshopHalf dayIn person
For CEOs and senior executives and executive peer groups.

A half-day working session for a leadership team at its offsite. Before the day, each leader answers a short survey on load, decisions, trust and AI use. In the room, I open with the neuroscience of thinking under pressure, then the team works through its own results: small-group exercises, one live decision tested against the Judgment Check, and a facilitated discussion that ends in two or three concrete changes the team commits to.

  • A shared, blame-free map of where the team’s time, attention and decisions are leaking, from their own survey data.
  • Two or three agreed changes to how the team meets and decides, with an owner for each.
  • A team rule for which decisions go to AI, which are shared, and which stay with the leaders.
Session details and terms
Promotion: Optional invitation, only if you agree. The 90-day Leadership Advisory and the Leadership Diagnostic, plus the free Judgment Check tool (Augment Mind): At the end of the session, about two minutes: a closing slide with a QR code to the free Judgment Check, and a short mention that I offer a 90-day follow-through (1:1s with each leader and a re-measure) for teams that want the changes to hold. Happy to leave it out if you prefer. Required purchases: None. Attendee follow-up: Only with attendees who choose to hear from Virginia. Only people who scan the QR code and sign up themselves get the Judgment Check and my bi-weekly newsletter, with unsubscribe at any time. The team’s written summary goes to the organizer only. I never ask for or use the attendee list.

Leading Under Pressure: Judgment in the Age of AI (Virtual)

$3,000
Includes a pre-event survey and a prep call. Any time zone.
KeynoteUnder 1 hourVirtual
For entrepreneurs and business owners, CEOs and senior executives, executive peer groups, and families and children.

The keynote adapted for a virtual room or a peer-group meeting. The group answers a short anonymous survey beforehand and sees its results live. The session mixes a focused talk with polls and a short exercise in pairs or breakouts, and leaves time for questions and discussion.

  • Why a full calendar quietly lowers decision quality, and how to spot it in yourself.
  • The Judgment Check: five questions to ask before you trust, override or slow down on an AI output.
  • Think first, then prompt: a simple habit that keeps your own thinking in the loop.
Session details and terms
Promotion: Optional invitation, only if you agree. The Leadership Diagnostic for leadership teams, plus the free Judgment Check tool (Augment Mind): A closing slide with a QR code and a link in the chat to the free Judgment Check, and one sentence mentioning that I run a Leadership Diagnostic for leadership teams. At the very end, about one minute. Happy to leave it out if you prefer. Required purchases: None. Attendee follow-up: Only with attendees who choose to hear from Virginia. Only people who use the QR code or chat link and sign up themselves. They get the Judgment Check by email, then my bi-weekly newsletter, and can unsubscribe at any time. I never ask for or use the attendee list.

About Virginia

I’m Virginia Palm, founder of Augment Mind, a leadership advisory practice based in Munich, Germany.
I founded the venture after years at McKinsey & Company, with a background in neuroscience and psychology, and I’m an ICF-certified executive coach.

My work sits where those meet: what stress, overload and uncertainty do to the way leaders think, and how leadership teams keep their judgment clear when the pressure is on, now that AI is part of nearly every decision.

I work with CEOs and their leadership teams across Europe and the Gulf, and I host the podcast "It’s Me, Your Brain", with listeners in more than 70 countries.
I'm also a guest lecturer at TUM School of Management.

My sessions use the audience’s own data, gathered before the event and revealed in the room. People leave with a picture of themselves, not a generic slide, and one thing they can change the next day.

Media and books

Related books, services, and programs
Consulting or advisory, Coaching, Courses or training

Leadership Diagnostic: we measure load, decisions, trust and AI readiness across a leadership team. 90-day Leadership Advisory: a Diagnostic, an offsite built on the results, then 1:1s with each leader and a re-measure at day 90. Executive coaching: 1:1 work with CEOs and senior leaders on judgment and performance under pressure.

Learn more at augment-mind.com (opens in a new tab)

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