Give your experience scientific weight.
You are a trainer, consultant or coach, or you are responsible for Learning & Development. You are the ones who lead an organisation towards what matters next. Scientific method gives you the standing for it: you judge for yourself what holds, take a clear position, and put new findings to work faster.
BRAIN-HR provides the tools: scientific professional development up to TÜV certification, seminars, software, evaluation and consulting.
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Dr. Franz Hütter
Founder of BRAIN-HR & the NET OF BRAINS think tank
Awarded & certified
TÜV Rheinland ISO/IEC 17024German Demography Award 2022dvct advisory board60+ professional publications
L&D UNDER PRESSURE
In a downturn, substance pays off twice.
Budgets are shrinking, AI is changing the playing field, and impact has to be justified. Anyone who builds L&D on scientific substance has the better arguments in the next budget round.
Absorptive capacity decides
Competitive advantage comes from the speed at which your people absorb new knowledge and turn it into impact. Economists call this absorptive capacity, researched since 1990.
AI raises the bar, if the people using it are up to it
AI makes competent minds more valuable. Its impact depends on how confidently your people handle complexity. Scientific method trains exactly the analytical, critical and innovative thinking that the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 identifies as a top future skill and growth driver.
Impact calls for numbers
Happy sheets stopped convincing the C-suite long ago, and rightly so. If you cannot express the impact of L&D investments in effect sizes, you lose them in the next budget cycle. This is where our approach starts: first the ROI analysis, then valid measurement of effects and the scientific explanation. That is how soft skills become hard facts.
Science is the blueprint for future learning.
Dr. Franz Hütter
THE COMMON DENOMINATOR · COMPLEXABILITY
AI is taking over parts of our thinking. What counts now is Complexability.
The industrial revolution replaced muscle power. AI is now taking over parts of human thinking, precisely in demanding knowledge work. What gains value is what sits above it: analytical, critical and creative thinking, and the ability to stay connectable to what will be needed from now on.
We call this Complexability: the capacity for complexity plus the capacity to connect. It is built in those who design learning for others. From there it travels on into organisations, teams and client projects.
In the video · 6 minutes
Franz Hütter on Complexability.
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WHAT WE OFFER
Six building blocks, usable on their own or one after another.
The Science Lunch is the free way in. From there you can go deeper into single topics in the Hard Facts Seminars, or go further with the Scientific Trainer Program and the Masterclass. Software, evaluation and consulting support the work in your own practice.
Scientific Trainer Program
The scientific upgrade for experienced trainers, consultants and L&D professionals: 12 evening webinars plus a closing day, part-time and online, 2.900 € plus VAT. So that what you can really do becomes visible. Audited by TÜV Rheinland to ISO/IEC 17024 and publicly verifiable on TÜV Certipedia.
See the program →SOFTWARE VISION
Scientific due diligence, automated.
Just as job applications are pre-screened automatically today, our software suite checks incoming training offers, programme concepts and methods against the scientific literature and against standards from learning research.
Pop psychology loses its ground. You measure impact in hard numbers. Scientifically grounded learning becomes standard due diligence in the L&D budget.
THREE CORE TOOLS
- Evidence Check: checking claims against the scientific literature
- Instructional-Design Check: auditing and building programmes to standards from learning research
- Evaluation workflow: hard numbers, data and facts for management
The suite is in development and will be available soon. Licences remain tied to the Scientific Trainer qualification: scientific software needs qualified users.
Contributions translating science into practice for L&D
Part-time, leading to TÜV Rheinland certification to ISO/IEC 17024
Evidence Check, Instructional-Design Check, Studyviewer, Thinking Tools and more
German Demography Award for the NET OF BRAINS think tank
VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY
What companions on the way say.
Three professors from business psychology, higher education and transfer research.
“THE innovation in professional development. A synergy of three concepts. If you can make it work at all: do not miss it.”
“Highly suitable for anyone who genuinely wants to learn and is not afraid to engage with the natural sciences.”
“Highly recommended for anyone who wants to work on a scientific footing and to demonstrate the impact of their own work.”
INSTITUTIONAL TIES
Embedded in a network that stays verifiable.
University of Applied Management
American Psychological Association · Teacher Status Member
Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital (Harvard Medical School affiliate) · Full Member
TÜV Rheinland
dvct
KKV Bildungswerk Bayern
To the NET OF BRAINS think tank → More about the institutional ties →
25 minutes of straight talk.
In a 25-minute Zoom call we look at whether the Scientific Trainer Program, a consulting engagement or a piece of software fits your situation. Yes, we would be glad to work with you. And still nobody pushes you: you leave with a clearer view, with us or without. Franz Hütter in person.
Or write directly: fh@brain-hr.com
To get to know us with no agenda: the Science Lunch, Fridays at 12 noon, 60 minutes, free.