Laura Bojarskaitė

Laura brings cutting-edge neuroscience to life through infectious enthusiasm, humour, memorable storytelling, and practical insights. As an active neuroscientist at the University of Oslo, she combines first-hand research experience with a deep understanding of discoveries made by scientists worldwide. Her talks are scientifically rigorous without being academic, entertaining without sacrificing substance, and designed to leave audiences with ideas they can put into practice immediately.

The extraordinary science of the brain’s night-time cleaning system. What if one of the most important things your brain does while you sleep is take out the rubbish?

Every day, your brain produces metabolic waste. Yet unlike the rest of your body, it has a highly unusual system for managing its internal environment. Only recently have scientists begun uncovering how fluid moves through and around the sleeping brain, potentially helping remove waste products associated with neurodegenerative diseases.

Laura takes audiences inside one of neuroscience’s most fascinating discoveries: the glymphatic system.

Why better sleep may be your organisation’s most overlooked competitive advantage.

What if the biggest obstacle to your team’s performance isn’t a lack of motivation, talent, or effort—but a lack of sleep?

We invest in leadership training, productivity tools, and performance optimisation. Yet many organisations systematically underestimate one of the most important biological foundations of human performance: sleep.

What happens to a brilliant employee after several nights of insufficient sleep? Can a sleep-deprived leader recognise their own declining judgement? Why do small frustrations become major conflicts when we’re tired? And can getting enough sleep improve creativity, learning, decision-making, and resilience?

How artificial intelligence is changing the way we think, learn, remember, and make decisions.

What happens to human intelligence when artificial intelligence starts doing some of our thinking for us?

AI promises to make us faster, smarter, and more productive. But what happens inside our minds when we increasingly rely on machines to generate ideas, answer questions, make decisions, and solve problems?

Could AI make us more creative—or encourage everyone to think alike? Can information generated by AI influence our memories? Why are we so easily persuaded by confident answers, even when they’re wrong? And what happens to our ability to think independently when solutions are always one prompt away?

The surprising neuroscience of learning faster, remembering longer, and forgetting less.

What if everything you were taught about learning was wrong?

Most of us spend years in education learning what to think, but very little time learning how our brains actually acquire and retain knowledge.

Why does rereading make us feel like we’ve learned something, even when we’ll forget it tomorrow? Why does struggling to remember information often strengthen learning? Why is forgetting not always a failure of memory? And why does sleep play such a crucial role in turning new experiences into lasting knowledge?

Laura reveals the fascinating science of how memories form, change, and sometimes disappear.

Drawing on decades of research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology, she introduces practical techniques such as spaced learning, retrieval practice, interleaving, and desirable difficulties—methods that can make learning significantly more effective.

She also explores one of the most surprising discoveries in neuroscience: memory is not a recording of the past. Every time we remember something, our brains actively reconstruct it.

Why our brains resist change—and how to become better at navigating it.

Your brain is built to adapt. So why does it resist change?

Organisations constantly ask employees to embrace transformation, adopt new technologies, abandon established routines, and remain flexible in an uncertain world.

But change isn’t simply a matter of attitude or motivation. It involves biological systems that continuously predict what will happen next, learn from experience, and favour familiar patterns of behaviour.

Why does uncertainty feel so uncomfortable? Why is changing an established habit often more difficult than learning something completely new? Why do even highly intelligent people resist changes they rationally agree with? And can we actually train our brains to become more adaptable?

Laura explores the neuroscience of neuroplasticity, habit formation, cognitive flexibility, and decision-making under uncertainty.