Are you on a mission to seek out better more collaborative decision making, to boldly go where no one has gone before? We face dozens of decisions every day from the ordinary to those more akin to intergalactic warfare. Decision making is a skill with many facets: How do you decide how you will decide? How do you move the process forward? How do you give opinions in a way that gets heard and valued? What do you do if the “wrong” decision is made? How can you harness the most value from your crew?

Most decision-making courses focus only on the skill of making a decision. This course goes further by exploring the neuroscience of decision making, the skill of leading a collaborative decision-making process, and how to be an invaluable decision making partner and help others make swifter, more objective, higher quality decisions.

The Starship Enterprise has two wise decision makers on board: Captain Kirk and Science Officer Spock. Develop the best, most collaborative skills from both of them.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Become a wise and invaluable advisor, and coach others to do so too
  • Maximize your impact by applying the latest neuroscience research
  • Champion a collaborative decision-making process that engages the whole team AND enhances unbiased decision making
  • Gain commitment to decisions, drive alignment and buy-in, and speed up implementation
  • Know when to seek consensus and how to manage differences in opinions
  • Foster an environment that supports positive relationships and constructive debate
  • Practice selecting and applying decision criteria for optimal decision making
  • Harness positive relationships, collective intelligence, and constructive debate from your crew
  • Be a decision making role model and champion best practice decision making processes


Who this course is for

For people who want to optimize their personal influence and effectiveness in decision making at all levels of the organization. 

Dr. Marc Hurwitz and Samantha Hurwitz

FliP U Team

What if online learning was even better than in-person? At FliP University, we’ve taken the best of in-person workshops and put it online. Our content is pracademic, whimsical, transformative and thoroughly modern, at the forefront of organizational needs. It is based on research from cognitive neuroscience, creativity, social, organizational and positive psychology, learning theory, and clinical practice. You can have your cake and eat it too! Dr. Marc Hurwitz and Samantha Hurwitz are the co-founders of FliP U and co-authors of Leadership is Half the Story. In addition, we are proud to collaborate with BK Chan and Tim Hurson as adjunct professors of FliP U. Check out all our courses: Be a leader people want to follow, Followership: The F-word that complements leadership,The Neuroscience of Work, Emotional Intelligence, Collaborative Decision Making, Be a Better Ally, and more.