Ellen Weber is my kind of nerd. With her prolific and inspiring work she celebrates what she calls a “brain-based approach to learning and leading.”   

She does it by herself, at her blog Brain Leaders and Learners. There she documents her scholarly understanding of how the brain works and how we learn. For example, she's just finished a three-post report on how her local Rotary Club used a brain-based approach to engage its community to best understand how the club can be relevant and responsive.

Her graphic style seems to be inspired by a Dr. Bronner's bottle. It breaks all the rules about reader experience by packing too much information into each infographic. It shouldn't work. But because there is valuable insight in each one, I'm compelled to read every word. And I love that she is completely comfortable with language like: “It’s really a matter of neurons and dendrites that spark new synapses for change. Remember, a neuron‘s nothing more than a nerve cell, and our brain holds about 100 billion of these little critters.”

This woman is changing the world from a Rotary Club in Canada. So I crib her notes, which she shares very generously.

Blog: Brain Leaders and Learners