Our Team

Our Founders

Dr Denise Bjorkman

CEO and Founder
Health Practitioner and Business Consultant

Dr Denise Bjorkman is a socio-behavioural scholar and seasoned business woman. She has distilled forty years of industry, government and organisational experience into NBI and the application of neuroscience in business. An ardent believer in the value of the LePEST C knowledge model for leadership performance she has thoroughly pursued nine different academic and scientific fields with distinction in her career.  Her clients have included multinationals, captains of industry, heads of state, executives and management.

Prof Martin Nasser

Head of Business and Neuroscience Strategy

Prof. Martin Nasser is a Professor Emeritus, an associate of Harvard and Wharton Universities, and an international consultant in the specialised business fields. With forty years of experience, he is a sought after authority on strategy, retail markets, high level executive performance, cognitive potential and business turnaround models. His knowledge of the retail industry has placed him in an elite bracket of knowledge and experience.

Dr Thembi Modungwa

Mental Health Practitioner / Governance

Dr. Modungwa has over 30 years of experience and her distinguished career crosses a spectrum of business, mental health, psychiatric studies, clinical work and related academic studies. She has fulfilled diverse roles over the years as a notable corporate board member, mental health practitioner and social scientist. Her multi-dimensional roles and experience include that of a university lecturer, board member of Mental Health Review Boards, designing and implementing total wellbeing programmes in the workplace.

Our Multidisciplinary Team

Professor Peet du Toit is Professor of Neuroscience & Physiology at the UGSM-Monarch Business School, Switzerland and Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology, and Head of the Neuroscience Group, at University of Pretoria. His fields of research are Neuroscience, Exercise Science, Brain Fitness and Performance and the Neuroscience of Leadership.

Dr André is a founding member and CEO of Neuro-Link, a boutique consultancy utilising applied neuroscience to develop talent, increase performance and maintain wellness. He is a workplace learning specialist who offers cutting edge neuro-agility assessments and learning solutions to organisations and people to move performance forward.

Ella van der Walt

Creative / Art director

Ella (Grafiki) van der Walt has been a vital part of the NBI team from inception. Armed with a specialised degree in graphic design and related advertising and  marketing subjects she has made a major contribution to the field of neuromarketing. Ella has been the ‘art’ director for branding many leading companies with a neuro marketing edge which included an understanding of the use of colour, contrast, sound, content in commanding customer attention. As an expert  and team leader  in our neuromarketing service offering Ella is able to provide advice from a global and domestic product and company perspective.