Shaping healthy, high-performing workplaces
because better results come from strengthening how people think, respond, and work together.
What we offer
We'll join you where you are and give a power boost to your people-related initiatives!
Consulting
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We can diagnose strengths and opportunities in the organization and help you navigate the path to higher performance, resilience, and retention.
Group Programs
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We can create competency models, leadership brand, and shore up skillsets and mindsets to meet dynamic organizational needs.Â
Speaking Events
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Award-winning, content-rich speakers will open, expand, and shift audience thinking for your keynote, breakout, retreat, summit, or meeting.
Testimonials
Mara Bain, Director of Salesforce and Mayor of Fridley, MN
"I have to tell you how often I've reached for your book and your materials in the past few months! ..... I literally think about your book and use its tools every single day. It has helped me to set limits and find space for professional life, personal life and brain healing.
While this is a very unconventional testimony to your work (and perhaps not the recommended path for many people), I wanted to say thank you and that you've literally been on my mind lately. :)
Many, many thanks!!"
Roland Sullivan, Change Agent
"I approached Erika when she presented to the Association of Change Management Professionals in Minnesota. I said that her session was the absolute most engaging, exciting, useful learning experience I've had in Minnesota in the last 10 years. She's on the cutting edge utilizing the "brainy" neuroscience competence in organization transformation. I just received her book, "The-Brain Friendly Workplace." It's cutting edge. It's so important that I'm giving it to my daughter this week because her passion is integrating Transformative Neuroscience with OD. Erika is positive, humorous, trustworthy, helpful and effective as a leading organization change and development and transformation expert. I know. She was the internal change agent that I worked with at [former client].
Welcome from Dr. Erika Salina
Founder and CEOÂ
WorkingSmarts helps organizations build better leaders, stronger teams, and healthier workplace cultures—using practical, neuroscience-based management strategies that actually work.
We combine tested, research-based management practices with neuroscience-informed insights to address the real challenges leaders and teams face—such as conflict, disengagement, productivity breakdowns, and change fatigue. Our work is practical . . . immediately applicable on the job.
WorkingSmarts partners with corporate and public-sector organizations to solve your people problems, such as:
- underprepared managers
- interpersonal conflict
- widespread distrust
- intolerance for risk and innovation
We can work with individual leaders or an entire company/agency. Our solutions are designed to scale—from workshops and leadership programs to licensed curricula and certified trainer models—so organizations can build lasting capability, not just short-term compliance.
At our core, we help people work smarter together.
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Why is WorkingSmarts unique?
WorkingSmarts is unique in its ability to translate neuroscience and evidence-based management research into practical, teachable skills that leaders can apply immediately in real workplace situations.
Rather than focusing on abstract concepts or personality frameworks, WorkingSmarts targets the core drivers of workplace behavior—how people think, regulate emotions, communicate, and respond to challenges—and develops these as observable, repeatable skills.
Our approach integrates:
- Science-based insight (how the brain drives behavior under everyday conditions)
- Practical application (tools leaders can use in the moment, not after the fact)
- Scalable delivery (programs, curricula, and licensing models that extend impact across organizations)
What makes our products and services so valuable?
WorkingSmarts delivers value by solving the problems that consume the most time and energy in organizations:
- Reducing interpersonal conflict and miscommunication
- Improving leadership consistency and accountability
- Strengthening team effectiveness and collaboration
- Increasing productivity by addressing root behavioral patterns—not just surface issues
Our clients value WorkingSmarts because the results are:
- Immediate — leaders can apply tools right away
- Practical — no translation from theory to action required
- Sustainable — skills become embedded in daily work, not forgotten after training
The result is measurable improvement in performance, relationships, and organizational culture.
Publications & Media
Erika has been featured in a number of podcasts, interviews, and articles. Learn about the various publications you can discover her in, her own book, and recent awards.
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Bernice Moreau, Hospital Social Worker, Allina Health Systems
"Thank you again for the wonderful information and presentation yesterday on “Your Brain on Change”. I learned so much but the one nugget that will be my mantra for a very long time is “living gracefully with transition” will be my goal! The world of healthcare is ever-changing and evolving and to resist this is to set one up to be in a continued state of stress!"
Jason Eccles, Operations Manager,
Branches, LLC
"I have viewed two separate presentations by Erika from WorkingSmarts. She clearly translates her knowledge and understanding of how our brains work, connecting hard-wired realities to human behavior. Her influence has caused our company to change the way in which it views and conducts performance evaluations. I would highly recommend Erika to any company that seeks a deeper understanding of its most important asset, human capital."
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