Biohacking Leadership Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Your Impact
By Scott Hutcheson, PhD,
with Matthew D. Jones
Publication Date: July 16, 2025
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Rethinking leadership through a scientific approach to human connection and performance
Built on a dual foundation of rigorous research and real-world application, Biohacking Leadership: Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Your Impact explores how leaders can apply biohacking principles to understanding and leverage the biological and behavioral drivers of decision-making, influence, and impact. The first in a three-part series, this book discusses how to optimize your leadership by using neuroscience and biomechanics to enhance your mental and physical state, fostering more effective communication, emotional regulation, and collaboration.
Each concept and strategy in this book is informed by science, but the insights are presented in an accessible, actionable way, discussing topics including:
- The concept of leadership biodynamics as a set of three channels and the 18 biometric signals that represent the essential dimensions of effective leadership: warmth, competence, and gravitas
- How insights from nature's keystone species―beavers, wolves, and sea stars―illustrate the impact of creating balance, inclusivity, and shared value
- How to deliver results with clarity and credibility by mastering complexity, decision-making, and alignment with strategic goals
- The critical role of creativity, adaptability, and play in fostering innovation, resilience, and team cohesion
Biohacking Leadership: Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Your Impact is an essential guide for all professionals seeking to harness cutting-edge scientific research and developments and to bring their organizations to new heights.
Biohacking Leadership Foreword
Leadership, much like elite sports, is about optimizing performance—tapping into the full potential of individuals and teams to achieve something extraordinary. As someone who has spent my career in the worlds of government, education, and professional sports, I’ve seen firsthand that the highest-performing leaders, much like the highest-performing athletes, don’t rely on talent alone. They train, they adapt, and most importantly, they understand the science behind their success.
That’s what makes Biohacking Leadership such a powerful and timely book. Dr. Scott Hutcheson has taken what elite coaches and performance experts have long known about the biology of human behavior and applied it directly to leadership. Just as an athlete learns to control breath, body mechanics, and mental focus, leaders can learn to regulate the physiological signals they send, the trust they build, and the cultures they create.
This book gives leaders a new kind of playbook—one rooted in the biology of behavior, the mechanics of presence, and the neuroscience of influence. It’s not about charisma or positional power; it’s about understanding and applying the fundamental forces that drive human connection, collaboration, and impact.
Whether you’re leading a boardroom, a locker room, or a classroom, the insights in these pages will help you elevate your leadership game. Just like championship teams, great leaders don’t leave performance to chance. They train for it.
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Praise for Biohacking Leadership
"Biohacking Leadership is an essential, step-by-specific-step guide to the 21st century’s most needed MBA: mindfulness, behavior, authenticity."
-Douglas K. Smith, Author, The Wisdom of Teams;
"Leadership isn’t just a skill—it’s a biological process that can be optimized, fine-tuned, and biohacked. In Biohacking Leadership, Dr. Scott Hutcheson unveils a groundbreaking approach that merges neuroscience, behavioral biology, and leadership strategy to help you become a more adaptive, influential, and high-impact leader."
- Greg Satell,Author, Cascades and Mapping Innovation
"In Biohacking Leadership, Hutcheson offers a unique, refreshing, and intriguing take on leadership success that is equally applicable to public, private, and nonprofit sectors. In examining leadership from a biological perspective, he identifies its core elements upon which successful leaders can build."
- Ross C. Alexander, Ph.D, President/CEO, Texas A&M University - Texarkana
"Biohacking Leadership is a must read for anyone wanting to be better in leading their teams. This book is a welcome contribution that will help leaders make meaningful connections that will prompt high performance."
- Sebastian Hamers, CEO, Human Insight
"Biohacking Leadership is a masterpiece. An essential book for leaders seeking an evidence-based approach, grounded in science, to optimize their impact. Scott Hutcheson combines his vast expertise in leadership and organizational behavior with practical and actionable strategies. Additionally, he integrates real-life examples from biology as comparative analogies to human behavior, helping us understand how leadership transforms the way we perceive influence and decision-making. An innovative book that redefines leadership for the modern era. You'll want to read over and over again."
- Elia Guardiola, Speaker, Storyteller, Motivational Communicator and Mentor of Leaders