Kelly Kent is a neuroscientist that connects her passion for the brain with all of her work, including as a school board member, corporate creativity consultant, business-owner, speaker, and her hardest job of them all, parent.
Since she completed her Ph.D. in the molecular mechanisms of stroke recovery in 2011, Kelly has been taking her experience and expertise garnered at higher educational institutions and applying them to the real world around her. While on the one hand, Kelly was pursuing her post-graduate work in autism at the University of Southern California, she was also simultaneously teaching and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. Kelly taught psychology undergraduate students at Moorpark College in Simi Valley and currently teaches neurobiology to psychotherapy graduate students at Antioch University in Culver City.
The application of neuroscience to everyday life became her primary focus when Kelly co-founded adaptED Consultants. Through adaptED, Kelly has grown a company that uses neuroscience to provide tools to drive individual and organizational growth. This is accomplished by aligning corporate work cultures with how the brain functions optimally, training leaders to manage with the brain in mind and helping organizations determine their own “brain-based” best practices.
Realizing the important role that coaches play in the organizational development and professional development world, Kelly approached Master Certified Coach, Hayden Lee to propose a neuroscience of coaching training program. With recognition of the value each respective field plays in enhancing human and organizational potential, Master Mind Institute was born.
Hayden Lee is a Master Certified Executive Leadership Coach, holding the highest credential possible in the professional coaching industry. He co-founded Master Mind Institute, a partnership with neuroscientists to merge brain science and professional coaching to more effectively serve leaders and organizations.
Seen as an industry expert and chosen as one of the “Top 20 Best Coaches in Los Angeles,” by Expertise.com, Hayden works with high-achieving executives, senior leaders, and their teams who are ready to make the changes needed for exponential growth in their personal and professional lives. He has coached leaders and teams from top companies like Google, X the Moonshot Factory, Meta, TikTok, Lyft, Cloud Imperium Games, FanDuel, Match.com, and many more.
He is an international Enneagram master coach and uses the Enneagram system to embolden executives and their teams to go from good to extraordinary. He is on the faculty at Integrative Enneagram Solutions and Leadership Education for Asian Pacific’s (LEAP). Hayden co-created the ICF-accredited course, Information for Transformation: The Neuroscience of Coaching. He is on the Advisory Board at Coach Training EDU, an ICF-accredited institution, where he co-created the Executive Life Coach Training Program.
As a highly sought-after speaker, trainer and facilitator, he has spoken at or led trainings at TEDx, UC Berkeley, National Association of Asian American Professionals, Nielsen, CAUSE, Association of Talent Development, the International Enneagram Conference in Cape Town, South Africa and many more.