We have been taught to think about mental development-- how big a perspective one can take, how much complexity one can handle, how deep is one’s self-awareness-- the same way we think about physical development: i.e., that our full capacity is reached at about 20 years old. The body doesn't get any taller, and the mental equipment doesn't get any more sophisticated. The brain stops growing. Greater wisdom or capacity is a function of greater experience, and new skill sets ("mental software") getting downloaded into the same mental hardware. Right?

Wrong! For the last twenty years, MINDS AT WORK founders have been contributing to original research documenting the possibility of qualitatively more complex mental development after adolescence. In the past few years, brain researchers have made corroborating discoveries reversing two generations of accepted wisdom.

There are a host of reasons organizations may want to boost the mental development of their employees. Some companies place a premium on personal development as a core value, believing everyone benefits when all are growing. Some are proactively planning for leadership succession and recognize a need to prepare the most promising employees for new roles. Nearly every competitive company places expectations on many of its members that outstrip their current mental capacities, as documented in MINDS AT WORK co-founder Robert Kegan's book, In Over Our Heads.

To meet the need to support a qualitative advance in individuals' mental development, MINDS AT WORK custom-designs for your organization a Developmental Accelerator that is woven into the meat and muscle of your company's ordinary daily operations. The design elements of the Developmental Accelerator are based on the latest learnings about adult development and the business realities that require ordinary activities of work to serve the simultaneous function of enhancing the capacities of the person who performs them.

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