MEET TOMASZ DRYBALA

Tomasz Drybala is the founder of the Neuro-Based Leadership Centre and the architect of a neuroscience-based regulatory framework designed for CEOs, founders, and senior executives.


His work focuses on measuring and regulating the neurochemical feedback loops that shape executive decision-making, daily execution, recovery cycles, internal rank, and relational dynamics. Rather than working at the behavioural surface, he operates at the level where perception is formed — stabilising the biological systems that influence conviction, timing, direction, and follow-through before logic engages.


Alongside building his executive framework, Tomasz pursued targeted programs through institutions including Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, and the University of California, Berkeley, while developing an applied research body examining how dopamine, cortisol, oxytocin, serotonin, and testosterone feedback loops influence judgment, timing, and execution inside real organisational environments.

More than 100 C-level executives have participated in this research, contributing insights drawn directly from board-level decisions, scale-phase execution, and high-stakes strategic environments. Participants include leaders from organisations such as Nebula Global Services, Global Expat Pay, Redbrick Solutions, Oakland Group, ChemAI, Autologyx, Experimentus, Pilot Financial Systems, Wazoku, Olsam Group, and others operating across technology, finance, AI, professional services, and high-growth sectors.


Tomasz works directly with senior leaders to map, measure, and regulate the neurochemical decision patterns that shape strategy, execution consistency, recovery quality, internal legitimacy, and clean directional drive.

His work integrates applied neuroscience, behavioural research, and direct executive field data into a structured regulatory system — providing leaders with clarity that compounds rather than fluctuates across cycles of growth.

AUTHOR


Breaking Patterns:

Leveraging Neuroscience to Unlock Your Leadership Potential (September 2026)


Neuroscience of CEO Decision-Making:

Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Choices and Fail to Execute—And How to Fix It (January 2027)


Choosing the Right People:

How Neuroscience Helps Us Build Secure, Aligned Relationships (March 2027)

SELECTED ACADEMIC & EXECUTIVE EDUCATION


Tomasz has completed targeted programmes in neuroscience, neuropsychology, cognitive science, and behavioural decision-making through the following institutions:


University of Cambridge

  • The Neuropsychology of Decision-Making
  • The Psychology of Emotions: An Introduction to Embodied Cognition
  • Introduction to Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology
  • Learning and Memory in the Brain


Harvard University

  • Fundamentals of Neuroscience: The Electrical Properties of the Neuron
  • Fundamentals of Neuroscience: Neurons and Networks
  • Fundamentals of Neuroscience: The Brain
  • Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health
  • Leaders of Learning


University of Oxford

  • Marketing Psychology: How We Decide


University of California, Berkeley

  • Empathy and Emotional Intelligence at Work


Stanford University

  • Psychology for High Performance


University of Alaska

  • Behavioural Neuroscience Research


American Psychological Association (APA)

  • Psychological Influences on Decision-Making


University of Surrey

  • Psychology: Intelligence