Susan Mackie was formerly the CEO of the De Bono Institute's consulting, not-for-profit and incubator divisions and Co-Founder of The Growth Mindset Institute.I have worked alongside Dr Edward de Bono (Lateral Thinking). I am working with Prof Carol Dweck (Growth Mindset) for the past nine years. I am also collaborating with Dr Jeffery Schwartz, Prof of Psychiatry (UCLA), Josie Thompson and Art Kleiner, Chief and Editor of Strategy and Business, PWC on self-directed neuroscience and neuro leadership applications for organisations.My professional work started in the area of cognitive sciences working with all children across all ages and needs. I have done extensive work in the educational sector, which then crossed over into the non-profit, government and business sectors. A large part of the work is devoted to designing interventions that assist schools and organisations in becoming more change-ready and innovative.I have contributed significant insights to the work on growth mindsets, having discovered the prevalence of "false growth mindsets" among educators and business people. We are developing evidence-based programs and tools for Mindset 2.0. I work as part of the growth mindset team with Prof Dweck, Dr David Yaeger and others and provide insights into the ongoing research. I have partnered with John Rives (Co-Founder of Growth Mindset Institute), Prof Carol Dweck, Dr Mary Murphy, Dr Katie Muenks (Indiana University) in developing validated mindset assessment tool (Mindset Profile). This has recently been commercialised and released as a Mindset Profiler. There is a current RD project to incorporate machine learning to build a pedagogical agent (growth mindset avatar) to trigger growth mindset intervention in a digital learning environment or become an in-situ learning coach to develop new behaviours with a growth mindset response. The second aim is to develop a growth mindset avatar to increase motivation and learning in digital games for children and teens. She has appeared as an expert in the de Bono tools on the ABC’s “Rewire you Brain Series One” with Tod Sampson.