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What’s Causing Disengagement—and What Can Actually Bring People Back

Across industries and job levels, people are hitting the wall. Stress is chronic. Burnout is an epidemic.. And as Gallup reports, employee engagement has hit a historic low. Leaders are trying to re-engage their teams—but the tools we have are cosmetic and outdated. Recognition programs, bonuses, and motivational slogans aren’t reaching the heart of the problem.

This Solutions Lab tackles disengagement as a brain setting that can be intentionally reversed.

The New Landscape of Disengagement

Disengagement is not a character flaw or a motivation problem—it’s a neurobiological response to overwhelm, uncertainty, emotional fatigue, and lack of meaningful connection. When chronic stress, ambiguity, and disconnection persist, the brain downshifts into self-protection mode and disconnects

People may still be showing up—but their sense of purpose, creativity, and contribution has quietly checked out.

This lab is based on the latest neuroscience on cognitive fatigue, attentional depletion, and motivational suppression. It examines how we can reset the brain and nervous system to move out of survival mode and back into a state of high interest and engagement.

What’s Different About This Conversation

This isn’t another conversation about perks, morale boosters, or “bringing your whole self to work.” This is about:

Understanding what disengagement really is—physiologically, cognitively, and emotionally
Exploring science-backed practices that help people reset, recover, and re-engage
Applying tools like reframing, intrinsic motivation, purpose priming, and flow-state triggers to rebuild sustainable engagement
Sharing real-world solutions from peers across sectors who are navigating the same challenges
Access to a longer, deeper conversation. This topic is continued in the Organizational Mindfulness Network, where participants can connect, grow relationships, and continue solving these problems together.

Why This Lab—and Why Now

Disengagement isn’t just costly—it’s contagious. Left unaddressed, it cascades through teams, erodes trust, undermines performance, and accelerates turnover. And yet, we now have access to new insights from neuroscience about disengagement itself, and from behavioral sciences that show how it can be reversed—not from the outside in, but from the inside out.

The Solutions Lab format is built for exactly this kind of challenge. You’ll gain fresh perspective, engage in high-value discussion, and leave with new strategies you can immediately use—personally and professionally.

This is not a lecture. It’s not a class. It’s an exchange of tacit knowledge in a collaborative learning space with peers who are on the front lines of the same issues. You’ll walk away with insights that are grounded in both science and experience.

Who Should Attend

This Solutions Lab is ideal for:

HR and Organizational Development professionals seeking engagement strategies that work.
Leaders and team managers who need to re-ignite energy and motivation.
Executive coaches and educators looking for science-based tools to support resilience and performance.
Anyone burned out by old answers and ready to explore new ones.

Join us as we bring together new science and shared experience to uncover what truly helps people reset and re-engage.

Our Facilitator: Bill Craib

Bill is the Chief Community Officer at the Organizational Mindfulness Network. Over a 30-year career, he has helped transform two distinct industries in human capital. In the early days of the WWW, Bill was a founder and content architect for AIRS, which revolutionized corporate recruiting through software and training for a decade before being acquired by ADP.

Over the past twenty years at the Human Capital Institute, Bill has been a founding executive, faculty member, and frequent public speaker on strategic human capital and helped thousands of HR leaders and business partners connect the dots between talent strategies and business outcomes.

Solutions Lab: How to Reset and Re-Engage Our People