New B Lab Standards
B Lab has introduced new standards for continuous improvement in cultural and workplace practices for B Corporations. These Fair Work standards ensure that B corporations show a sustained, measurable commitment to improving leadership effectiveness and the well-being, engagement, and participation of their people.
Capabilities That Drive Change
Meeting the new B Lab standards means developing people—not just policies—through training that links cultural goals to lasting behavioral change. Our new IOSM courses train the human capabilities required to meet and exceed the B Lab requirements.
“B Corps are expected to continuously improve their impact. The new standards integrate mandatory improvement actions, ensuring that businesses evolve alongside global challenges and push the boundaries of what responsible business can achieve.”
B Lab Standards Prioritize:
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Organizational
Culture
A purpose-driven culture grounded in shared values, open participation, and continuous improvement
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Effective Leadership
Leaders who act with authenticity, integrity, trustworthiness, transparency, and emotional intelligence
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Workforce Wellbeing
Wellness, belonging, engagement, participation, mental strength, and resilience in the workforce
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Workplace Practices
A Workplace environment of psychological safety, equity, inclusion,
and meaningful participation
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Continuing Improvement
Measurable and continuous improvement in leadership, the workforce, workplace and culture
The mental and emotional capabilities behind effective leadership and work are not fixed traits - they are trainable skills.
Unlike traditional leadership or wellness programs, IOSM teaches practices to retrain the underlying neural pathways that shape how we think, feel, relate, and perform—producing change in the moment and transformation over time.
Skills for Continuous Improvement
IOSM has developed two distinct courses to help B Corps improve leadership effectiveness and workforce well-being. Both are grounded in the latest research in cognitive neuroscience and organizational psychology. These courses are offered separately. Together, they form a coordinated enterprise solution that provides integrated leadership and workforce skills, driving cultural change from the ground up and the inside out.
Course 1.
Neural Skills for B Corp Leaders
How our leaders perceive the world, regard themselves, and interact with others has a profound impact on culture, the workforce, and their own capabilities and effectiveness.
We value leaders who arrive with a positive growth mindset and act with authenticity, integrity, trustworthiness, and emotional intelligence. We want our leaders to be self-aware, considerate, and compassionate toward others - to create an environment of trust and psychological safety, and to encourage open dialogue and shared decision-making.
For centuries, these attributes were considered to be immutably fixed by genetics and environment. Now we know they can be intentionally trained through neuroplasticity, and we're learning to reshape them. This is new science, yet it is increasingly essential to effective leadership in our VUCA world.
Course 2.
Neural Skills for Wellbeing
Workplace and societal pressures are producing record levels of chronic stress, anxiety, digital distraction, attention deficit, information overload, decision fatigue, relentless change and uncertainty, and finally, exhaustion and burnout
These pressures aren't just uncomfortable and unpleasant. They compromise our mental clarity, focus, attention control, and other cognitive capabilities—and impair our mindsets, motivation, engagement, and participation.
But science is advancing—and giving us new ways to exit these states of autopilot distress, to minimize suffering in the moment, and retrain it away over time. We have new tools to help our people avoid burnout, reset and re-engage, concentrate more deeply, collaborate more effectively, and perform with focus, calm, and flow.
Plan Your Program
Each Course includes
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Twelve hours of interactive live training,
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Led by expert instructors, and delivered online or onsite.
Customize Your Schedule
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Four half-day live workshops (recommended)
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Two full-day live intensives
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Eight 90-minute live classes
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Eight 90-minute self-paced videos
Tailor Your Program
Courses are modular by design and can be tailored to your learning objectives, strategic focus, or scheduling needs—at no additional cost. This ensures the program you deliver aligns with your team, timeline, and goals.
For additional tools such as assessments, certification exams, and turnkey credentials, visit the Consider Your Options tab above. Please click here to email us with any questions you may have, or schedule a call using the button below.
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Our Students Say
Powerful, Evidence-Based Methods
Anyone committed to transforming their lives or enhancing their organization understands that making different choices—consistently—requires a shift in mindset. Breaking free from autopilot requires being present and allowing the mind to settle. IOSM provides powerful, evidence-based methods for this transition
Founder and CEO
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Andrew Hinkelman
The course content is incredibly relevant, addressing real-world issues that individuals and businesses face, such as stress and burnout, change and uncertainty, distractions that make it difficult to focus, issues with prioritizing, lack of psychological safety, and unhealthy team dynamics
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Dustin Delewski
Director of M & A Integration
Incredibly Relevant
Neural Leadership Outline
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Workshop 1. The Neuroscience of Leadership
Understand how brain science explains leadership behavior. This session explores the nonconscious drivers of stress, attention, and decision-making, and provides practical tools to regulate emotion, stay focused, and lead effectively through complexity and change.
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Aligning with B Lab’s standards and leadership objectives
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Exploring the nonconscious brain and neural training
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Managing leadership stress, anxiety, and burnout
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Leading through complexity, volatile change, and uncertainty
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Workshop 2. Core Leadership Traits
Develop essential mental and emotional capabilities for effective leadership. Participants learn to strengthen mindset, enhance focus and concentration, act with integrity and transparency, and build resilience and adaptability in demanding environments.
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Cultivating a positive and growth mindset
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Sharpening focus, attention control, and concentration
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Leading with authenticity, integrity, trustworthiness, and transparency
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Developing mental strength, agility, adaptability, and resilience
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Workshop 3. Core Relationship Skills
Learn to lead with emotional intelligence and create a culture of trust and inclusion. This workshop builds skills in self-awareness, empathy, and compassion while practicing communication behaviors that enable psychological safety, participation, and collaboration.
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Leading with EQ: self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy and compassion
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Creating an environment of psychological safety, inclusion, and belonging
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Encouraging open dialogue, active participation, and shared accountability
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Enabling effective collaboration across onsite, hybrd, or remote teams
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Workshop 4. Cultural Leadership
Translate personal leadership into collective impact. Participants practice building shared purpose, reinforcing trust and engagement, supporting employee contribution, and applying methods to measure progress and drive continuous cultural improvement.
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Creating shared purpose, trust, and engagement
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Ensuring employees feel respected, appreciated, and connected to the mission
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Empowering employees to participate and make meaningful contributions
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Measuring progress and continuing improvement in leadership effectiveness.
Workforce Wellbeing Outline
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Workshop 1. The Neuroscience of Wellbeing
We’ll explore the scientific foundation for workforce wellbeing, linking B Lab’s standards to the latest findings in neuroscience and behavioral health. We’ll learn how the brain processes stress, anxiety, trauma, and burnout—and experience neural practices that regulate the nervous system to restore calm, stability, and resilience in daily work life.
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Aligning with B Lab’s culture, workforce, and workplace standards
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Exploring the nonconscious brain and neural training
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Understanding stress, anxiety, trauma, and burnout
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Regulating the nervous system to calm the brain and body
Workshop 2. Overcoming Distraction and Change
We’ll learn about the cognitive costs of modern work—chronic distraction, attention deficit, and the mental strain of constant uncertainty, and how neural overload impairs focus and performance. We’ll experience practices to sharpen attention, stabilize perception, increase positivity, and build an adaptive growth mindset.
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Understanding neural overload, distraction, and attention deficit
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Practicing for clarity, focus, attention control, and concentration
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Navigating relentless VUCA change and uncertainty
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Practicing for reperception, acceptance, and adaptability
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Workshop 3. Activating Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is not a fixed trait—it is a trainable set of neural capacities that shape how we relate to ourselves and others. We’ll learn the practices that activate self-awareness, regulation, empathy, and compassion, and apply them to workplace communication, collaboration, and trust, enabling stronger relationships and more effective teamwork.
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Understanding the neural foundations of emotional intelligence
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Practicing for self-awareness, self-control, empathy, and compassion
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Communicating and collaborating effectively
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Building positive, trust-based work relationships
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Workshop 4. Embodying the Culture
Culture is reinforced in the small, daily behaviors that shape how people experience work. We’ll explore the personal habits and relational behaviors that bring a positive culture to life—practicing kindness, optimism, curiosity, and initiative to create a climate of respect, growth, and shared purpose.
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Showing kindness, courtesy, and respect in daily interactions
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Answering challenges with optimism, positivity, and a growth mindset
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Engaging others with interest, curiosity, and an open mind
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Taking the initiative to help others and the organization
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