My path into neuroscience has not followed a traditional academic route. It has been shaped by decades of lived experience, practical application, and a deep commitment to understanding how neurochemical patterns influence decision-making, behavior, and human development.

What began as a response to personal and professional struggle, including the collapse of multiple ventures, evolved into a transformative journey: one focused on the biological loops that drive leadership patterns, reinforce cognitive bias, and ultimately shape the quality of decisions made under pressure.

I invite you to read my story below!

MY STORY

2025 - Ongoing.

Formal Research: Advancing the Neuroscience of Decision-Making

Master’s and PhD Research

In 2025, I began formal research into the neuroscience of decision-making, pursuing my Master’s and eventual PhD at a leading neuroscience university in London. This marks the next phase in a body of work I’ve built over the past decade: understanding how internal neurochemical patterns shape the way leaders think, decide, and lead under pressure.

This research extends the core principles behind my books and the Breaking Patterns of Decision-Making program, translating them into formal scientific inquiry.

Focus of the Study

The research explores a question at the heart of modern leadership:

How do neurochemical feedback loops shape and reinforce decision-making patterns, and what interventions can interrupt these loops to improve the quality of strategic decision-making?

Key Areas of Investigation

• Neurochemical feedback loops
  How dopamine, cortisol, testosterone, and oxytocin influence perception, urgency, confidence, and strategic blind spots in real time
  
  
• Cognitive bias and behavioral patterns
  How internal chemistry reinforces biases such as overconfidence, confirmation bias, the sunk cost fallacy, and others, even in data-rich environments
  
  
• Disruption and realignment
  How leaders can interrupt these loops and restore clarity, adaptability, and long-term decision capacity through neuroscience-based tools
  
  

This research is designed to help leaders understand how internal patterns drive external outcomes, and how to create measurable change where it matters most.

As part of this work, I’m engaging directly with founders, executives, and senior teams, studying how decision patterns emerge under pressure, and co-developing new models to enhance clarity, timing, and strategic depth.

2024 - Present.

The Neuro-Based Leadership Centre: Where Neuroscience Meets Real-World Leadership

Founder & Director

The Neuro-Based Leadership Centre is where my decades of research, coaching, and international work come together, built for leaders who want to do more than perform. They want to transform.

At the Centre, we work with founders, executives, and high-performing teams to break hidden patterns, strengthen decision-making, and align behavior with long-term goals. Everything we do is grounded in neuroscience, specifically the neurochemical and cognitive loops that drive action, reinforce bias, and shape leadership outcomes.

How Leaders Benefit:

• Clarity in complexity
  Understand the neuroscience behind your decisions, and why even smart strategies fall apart under certain internal conditions.
  
  
• Break unconscious cycles
  Identify and interrupt emotional and cognitive loops that keep leaders stuck in reactive or self-sabotaging patterns.
  
  
• Lead with alignment
  Rebuild behavioral patterns that support clarity, trust, resilience, and long-term execution.
  
  

Our approach is not just informative, it’s transformative. The Centre exists to help high-performing leaders make better decisions, build stronger systems, and lead from a place of grounded, strategic clarity.

2024 - Present.

Continuing Education: Strengthening the Bridge Between Science and Strategy

Targeted Academic Study

To deepen the scientific foundation of my applied neuroscience work, I’ve pursued focused programs at leading academic institutions. These short-format, high-impact courses allowed me to explore how the brain drives behavior, motivation, decision-making, and resilience, across both individual and organizational settings. Each program was selected to sharpen the practical relevance of my work and strengthen its scientific depth. The result is a body of insight grounded in research and designed for real-world transformation.

Institutions include:

• University College London

• Stanford University

• Harvard University

• Cambridge University

• Columbia University

• University of California, Berkeley

• London School of Economics

This academic training has enabled me to:

• Expand the scientific grounding of my frameworks in behavioral neuroscience

• Strengthen the strategic precision behind my work with leaders and teams

• Understand how neurochemical patterns shape decisions under pressure

• Design interventions that address hidden drivers of behavior at scale

• Translate research into tools for measurable, lasting change

2021 - Present.

Authoring the Framework: Neuroscience, Leadership, and Human Potential

Books
Between 2021 and 2025, I authored three books that integrate lived experience, field research, and applied neuroscience. Each written for leaders ready to challenge patterns, sharpen clarity, and elevate decision-making.

These books form the intellectual foundation of my work. They offer practical, science-based frameworks to help high-performing individuals recognize how subconscious patterns shape leadership behaviors, and how those patterns can be rewired to drive sustainable change.

• Breaking Patterns (Publishing June 10, 2025)
  A neuroscience-based guide to uncovering and breaking the invisible patterns that limit leadership performance. This book gives leaders the tools to overcome internal friction, heal performance blocks, and lead with clarity, stability, and grounded confidence.

• The Neuroscience of Decision-Making (Publishing August 13, 2025)
  A practical deep dive into the neurochemical loops that distort clarity, reinforce bias, and drive misaligned decisions, even among the most intelligent leaders. This book equips readers to recognize and interrupt these loops in real time.

• Choosing the Right People (Publishing January 15, 2026)
  A guide to building aligned, secure relationships across business and life. It explains why high-achieving leaders often misjudge compatibility, and how to use neuroscience-based signals to choose the right people for long-term trust, safety, and growth.

2020 - 2021.

Research Collaboration: Endurance, Neuroscience, and Performance

University of Westminster – Pre-Research Collaboration
In 2020, I entered a structured pre-research collaboration with the University of Westminster to explore how mindful endurance practices impact focus, emotional regulation, and flow states in high-performance environments. This work emerged directly from my applied methodologies and aimed to contribute new insight into the psychobiological effects of long-distance movement on clarity and resilience.

Scope and Contribution:

• Pre-research experimentation
  Conducted daily monitoring of fatigue, mood, and cognitive state during multi-phase ultra-endurance running challenges.

• Collaborative protocol design
  Worked with faculty and graduate researchers to create experimental models for measuring psychological and physiological stress response.

• Integration of field data with science
  Applied lived experience to support the development of novel frameworks for decision-making, focus, and emotional recovery under extreme conditions.

While the full study did not progress beyond the preparatory phase due to funding limitations, the collaboration laid a foundation for future research at the intersection of endurance, neuroscience, and human performance.

Additional Academic Interest
During this period, I was also approached by a professor at Manchester Metropolitan University to explore the biomechanical and cognitive implications of movement variability in ultra-endurance running. Although no formal project was initiated, this inquiry reflected growing academic interest in the applied relevance of my work.

2019 - 2020.

Academic Engagement: Bridging Neuroscience and Practical Application

University Workshops – Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore
Between 2019 and 2020, I was invited to deliver neuroscience-based workshops at over 20 universities across Thailand, including Mahidol University, Thammasat University, Naresuan University, and Bangkok University. An additional 30 workshops were scheduled in Malaysia and Singapore before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

These sessions focused on the applied neuroscience of focus, flow states, and cognitive clarity—offering students and faculty practical tools to enhance emotional regulation, learning capacity, and long-term mental resilience.

Highlights and Impact:

• Delivered live and virtual workshops
  Engaged students and academic staff across a wide range of disciplines with interactive, experience-based sessions.

• Designed experiential protocols
  Introduced practices grounded in neuroscience to improve emotional regulation, restore clarity, and build sustained attention.

• Blended science with lived insight
  Integrated real-world experience with neurobiological models to demonstrate the mechanics of performance, recovery, and resilience.

• Built institutional credibility
  Facilitated in-depth academic sessions that earned strong engagement from leading universities and resulted in written endorsements.

This academic collaboration deepened the foundation of my work, reinforcing the principle that neuroscience, when practically applied, can elevate both individual capacity and institutional performance.

2019 - 2024.

Applied Neuroscience Experience: Turning Patterns into Frameworks

Self-Directed Researcher and Practitioner

Since 2019, I’ve focused exclusively on applied neuroscience—examining how neurochemical feedback loops influence decision-making, reinforce cognitive bias, and drive behavioral patterns in leadership and high-performance environments. This work combines deep research with real-world application, developed not in theory alone, but through measurable outcomes in the field.

Core Contributions and Focus Areas:

• 3,000+ hours of applied neuroscience study
  Focused on behavioral change, emotional regulation, and bias-driven decision-making in complex environments.
  
  
• Development of original frameworks
  Mapped how neurochemical loops, particularly involving dopamine, cortisol, oxytocin, and testosterone, reinforce cognitive biases such as confirmation bias, overconfidence, anchoring, the sunk cost fallacy, and others.
  
  
• Live neurobiological field study
  Executed a 27,000-kilometer ultra-endurance running project across 14 countries as a real-time study of motivation, resilience, identity, and adaptation under prolonged physical and psychological load.
  
  
• Decision-making methodologies rooted in neuroplasticity
  Designed neuroscience-based models for leaders to increase clarity, interrupt reactive loops, and improve long-term behavioral alignment.
  
  
• Executive coaching and advisory
  Delivered high-impact coaching for senior leaders, integrating neuroscience into performance, leadership development, and strategic recalibration.
  
  

This body of work forms the foundation of my approach: neuroscience not as abstract insight, but as a practical tool for changing how leaders think, decide, and act under pressure.

1998 - 2019.

Professional Experience: The Path That Revealed the Pattern

Entrepreneur and Business Owner, Poland & United Kingdom

Over two decades, I built and led multiple companies through fast-paced, high-pressure environments. Some achieved strong traction. Others collapsed. What initially appeared as isolated outcomes revealed something far more valuable: a repeating pattern of emotional dynamics that consistently shaped critical decisions, risk tolerance, and long-term strategy.

These weren’t simply business outcomes, they became the foundation for my work in applied neuroscience. By tracing decisions back to their neurobiological origins, I began to uncover how feedback loops involving dopamine, cortisol, and other neurochemicals drive behavior long before logic engages.

Core Insights and Capabilities:

• Leadership in high-stakes environments
  Directed complex operations and teams through pressure, uncertainty, and rapid change.
  
  
• Decision-making under intensity
  Experienced firsthand how confidence, urgency, and emotional momentum distort clarity and timing—later analyzing these through the lens of neurochemical feedback.
  
  
• Strategic pattern recognition
  Identified and deconstructed recurring behavioral loops. Insights that now form the basis of the cognitive and neurobiological frameworks I teach.
  
  

These years provided more than experience. They gave me a practical, field-based lens into how leadership behavior is shaped—not by intention alone, but by patterns embedded deep within the brain’s predictive systems.

1984 - 1998.

Early Education: Where the Pattern Began

My early academic years revealed a consistent contrast between external leadership and internal cognitive struggle. While I faced challenges with focus and emotional regulation, I also demonstrated early strengths in creativity, initiative, and relational intelligence—traits that later became foundational to my work in leadership and behavior change.

Primary School – Krosno, Poland

• Strong academic performance in early years
  
  
• Decline in focus and attention following early trauma
  
  
• Elected Class President four times and School President in final year
  
  
• Founded a student-run newspaper and led school-wide initiatives
  
  
• Recognized by the school director for leadership and contribution
  
  

Secondary School – Technical Education in Technology Systems

• Graduated with low academic results due to sustained focus challenges
  
  
• Elected Class President for four consecutive years
  
  
• Continued to lead group efforts despite internal academic difficulty
  
  

• This contrast between external leadership and internal challenge later became central to my work in decision-making and cognitive-emotional patterns.

  
  
  

Early University Attempts

• Applied to study psychology at Jagiellonian University; did not pass entrance exams
  
  
• Enrolled part-time at the Higher School of Commerce in Warsaw; withdrew after six months
  
  
• Traditional academic systems didn’t align with my learning style or attention patterns
  
  
• These early experiences laid the foundation for a different kind of education—one built through lived experience and self-directed research