I’ve been writing professionally since I was 16, when my first article appeared in a national newsletter for teens. By my 30s I was writing an award-winning newspaper column that ran in 75 newspapers. My work has appeared in dozens of academic journals and lots of magazines and media outlets.
My upcoming book, Biohacking Leadership: Leveraging the Biology of Behavior to Maximize Your Impact (Wiley), brings together insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and behavioral science to reframe how we understand executive presence and influence. It’s the first in a trilogy that explores how we can optimize leadership, teams, and organizations through the lens of biology and behavior.
I also co-authored Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership (Wiley), which continues to shape how groups collaborate to tackle complex challenges.
You’ll find many of the ideas I explore in my books developed in real time through my columns for Forbes and Fast Company. That’s where I share emerging insights, research, and practical guidance for those navigating today’s complex leadership environments.
More media, interviews, and writing projects are on the way as I continue partnering with organizations and publications to share this work more broadly.
Scott Hutcheson
- Why Profit Isn’t A Plan, It’s A Pattern Of Behavior June 19, 2025Profit isn’t a goal, it’s a signal. Learn how leaders can shape behavior patterns that drive sustainable performance, culture, and bottom-line results.
- Behavioral Mixology: How C-Suite Leaders Shape Leadership Presence June 9, 2025How C-suite leaders use warmth, competence, and gravitas to shape leadership presence and influence trust, clarity, and action through the biology of behavior.
- Repeat And Refine: Why Repetition Improves Performance For Leaders May 30, 2025How stand-up comics use repetition and refinement to sharpen performance—and what leaders can learn about signaling, presence, and real-time adaptation.
- Build High-Performing Teams By Harnessing The Biology Of Behavior May 20, 2025Just as nature optimized our internal code over millennia, leaders can now begin to understand and intentionally shape the relational code that drives team performance...
- Biohacking Sales: The Biology Behind Better Performance April 4, 2025Discover how biohacking sales leverages the biology of behavior to boost performance, build trust, and drive action—without relying on outdated sales scripts.
- Recombinant Innovation And The Biology Of Shared Value April 3, 2025A salad, born of necessity and assembled from ordinary ingredients, became iconic. We can learn a powerful leadership lesson from it today: recombinant innovation
- How 3 ‘Behavioral Macros’ Can Strengthen Your Executive Presence April 2, 2025Insights from a new evidence-based model of executive presence, called leadership biodynamics, can offer easy steps for business leaders to improve office dynamics.
- Small Business Strategy: Rethinking How The Little Guys Win March 31, 2025Discover how small businesses can thrive through strategic collaboration, adaptive ecosystems, and keystone leadership—changing the game instead of competing head-on..
- Reverse Engineering KPIs: A Behavioral Biology Approach March 28, 2025Grounded in neuroscience and behavioral biology, reverse engineering KPIs offers a more human—and more effective—way to lead.
- Grab Or Toss? Instant Judgments About Who We Follow And Who We Don’t March 27, 2025Understanding how this instant judgment process works—how we "search" for leadership—can make us better at showing up in ways that resonate, persuade, and create share.
- Two-Step Leadership: Why Progress Often Looks Like A Step Back March 26, 2025This is the essence of two-step leadership : the dance between progress and regression, innovation and preservation.
- Mastering Persuasive Language: Small Shifts That Make A Big Impacts March 25, 2025Whether you're leading a team or closing a deal, mastering persuasive language can dramatically improve outcomes by calming tension and fostering trust .
- Worker Confidence Is Crashing. Here’s 3 Things Leaders Can Do About It March 24, 2025When worker confidence plummets, retention, engagement, and performance don’t lag far behind. Talent leaders need to reverse this trend, quickly.