Technology is moving faster than human systems can adapt.
Augment Mind exists to close that gap.

Why Augment Mind exists

The problem we work on

Modern organizations are investing heavily in technology, especially AI, to increase speed, efficiency, and scale.

At the same time, leaders and teams are experiencing rising cognitive load, decision fatigue, and change exhaustion.

This is not a contradiction.
It is a systems mismatch.

Technology evolves faster than the human operating system that must carry it.

When this gap is not addressed, organizations experience:

  • Shallow adoption of new tools

  • Degrading decision quality under pressure

  • Leadership strain and cognitive overload

  • Cultural friction that slows transformation

Augment Mind was founded to work on this gap,
not at the level of tools or training, but at the level of human system readiness.

Our lens

We work at the intersection of neuroscience, applied psychology, leadership, and organizational design.

Our work is evidence-informed and practice-oriented.
We avoid hype, one-size-fits-all frameworks, and surface-level interventions.

This means:

  • We treat attention, decision-making, and emotional regulation as trainable capacities

  • We see psychological safety and trust as performance infrastructure

  • We approach leadership not as a set of traits, but as a set of cognitive and relational practices

  • We focus on systems and conditions, not just individual behavior

What Augment Mind is (and is not)

Augment Mind is not a coaching marketplace, a wellbeing program, or an AI training provider.

We work with organizations and leaders who recognize that sustainable performance in the AI era depends on the quality of human systems; how people think, decide, regulate themselves, and work together under pressure.

Our work spans:

  • Individual leadership capability

  • Team dynamics and psychological safety

  • Organizational readiness for AI-enabled ways of working

Always with the same underlying focus: strengthening the human operating system.

About the Founder

Augment Mind was founded by Virginia Palm, whose work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, leadership, and organizational development.

Virginia’s perspective is shaped by structured training in neuroscience, neurobiology, and psychology, professional coaching training (ICF pathway), and nearly four years of experience advising leaders and organizations at McKinsey & Company, combined with over a decade of application in high-performance organizational environments across tech, startup and scaleup contexts, venture capital, and large-scale transformations.

She has worked closely with executives, leadership teams, and high-performing individuals navigating complexity, transformation, and performance under pressure.

This combination of evidence-based grounding and real-world leadership exposure informs how Augment Mind approaches decision quality, cognitive load, and human readiness for change in complex organizations.

She is the author of Where’s Your Head At Work, which explores how burnout and cognitive overload are often symptoms of system design challenges, not individual weakness.

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How we work

Augment Mind works with leaders and organizations on issues that sit beneath surface performance: how decisions are made, how attention is allocated, and how pressure is carried in leadership systems.

Our work is guided by a small set of principles:

  • Human systems before tools
    We focus on the conditions that shape behavior and judgment, not just the tools people use.

  • Decision quality over output volume
    Speed without judgment erodes performance over time.

  • Psychological safety as performance infrastructure
    Trust and openness are prerequisites for good thinking under pressure.

  • Evidence-informed, practice-oriented
    We ground our work in research and test it in real organizational contexts.

  • Depth over hype
    We avoid one-size-fits-all frameworks and performative transformation language.

Human readiness is strategic

As technology accelerates, the quality of human judgment becomes a competitive advantage.
Augment Mind exists to help leaders and organizations build that capacity deliberately.