DCR Business Builders: Brain Fitness for Leaders: Stay Sharp as you Age.

The DCR Business Builder Series is designed to help professionals grow with purpose through timely insights, practical tools, and hands-on learning across a wide range of business topics. Each session brings together regional leaders and experts in an engaging, interactive setting that encourages learning, idea-sharing, and meaningful connections. Today’s business environment demands adaptable, informed leaders who are committed to continuous growth.

Brain Fitness: Brain Fitness for Leaders: Stay Sharp as You Age

Today’s leaders are expected to think faster, remember more, and make sound decisions in an environment of constant change and distraction. This engaging session focuses on how brain fitness directly impacts leadership performance, productivity, and long-term effectiveness—at any stage of your career.

Participants will gain insight into key cognitive skills such as memory, processing speed, attention, and focus, and how these skills influence decision-making, communication, and adaptability in the workplace. Rather than accepting mental decline as inevitable, this workshop explores current research on brain function and aging and provides practical, science-backed strategies leaders can use immediately. The session also includes fun, hands-on brain training exercises to reinforce learning and boost mental agility.

You’ll walk away with:

• A stronger understanding of how cognitive skills affect leadership and performance

• Practical strategies to improve focus, memory, and mental clarity

• Tools to support sustained leadership effectiveness and resilience over time

Presenter: Rich Frieder, Owner of LearningRx
Rich Frieder specializes in improving how individuals learn and process information. He has worked extensively with individuals facing ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other learning challenges. Rich is a frequent speaker for school districts, education conferences, homeschool groups, and therapy organizations, and has been featured on Fox Morning News, Twin Cities Live, and KARE-11 Today.

Cost: $20 per person
Capacity: Limited seating available

Advance registration is encouraged. Invest in your most valuable leadership asset—your brain—and gain tools to lead with clarity, confidence, and stamina.