The Role of Interpersonal Neural and Bio-Behavioural Synchrony for Attachment-Informed Leadership

In our first post on Attachment-Informed Leadership (AIL), we have explored how leadership is fundamentally an attachment relationship anchored in the biological imperative for safety and security.

We subsequently illustrated that leaders can only truly optimise their teams and organisations by looking beneath the surface of simple tasks and behaviours and instead at the physiological and neural mechanics of human connection.

This post focuses on Interpersonal Neural Synchrony (INS) and Bio-Behavioural Synchrony (BBS) as the invisible threads that weave a collection of individuals into a high-performing ‘super-organism’ and thereby enable social allostasis fostering resilience under pressure.

INS and BBS are also a primary focus of our current research in the area of AIL, which aims to further explore and refine organisational processes and interpersonal functioning in the boardroom.

The structure is as follows:
1. The Brain’s Metabolic Mandate: Allostasis through Active Inference
2. Attachment: Highest-Order Prediction Priors
3. Relational Neuroscience: Decoding INS and BBS
4. INS and BBS as Catalysts for Resilience
5. The Shadow Side: Potential Pitfalls of High Synchrony
6. Research into INS and BBS in the Boardroom

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