His primary responsibility was to oversee training program design; specifically, maintaining or increasing an individual's productivity, motivation, and creativity.
He profiled workshop participants' thinking styles and learning preferences in accord with brain dominance theory.
Herrmann was a pioneer in exploring, explicating and expanding understanding of the brain in close-up view as a four quadrant system.
His approach to brain balance was to encourage experiments, use and exercise of weaker quadrants through live, in-person games, small group processes and discussion.
He spent 30 years from approximately 1964–1996, exploring and explicating Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument to teaching, learning, increased self-understanding and enhanced creative thinking capabilities, on both an individual and corporate level.