Nigel Taberner

This is Nigel’s signature and most in demand speech. Through stories, he explores the skills and theories used by hostage negotiators that allows them to successfully resolve high-risk incidents, when they are negotiating from a position of weakness, with no leverage and nothing to give away.

If that is something that you can relate to as an organisation, then this is the speech that you need to book! Cool, huh?

What is the key skill of a hostage negotiator?

Is it smart talking? Jedi mind tricks?

The ability to hold their nerve in crazy, fast moving situations?

In this session, Nigel explores the real hostage negotiator superpower… the ability to connect, develop trust, get people talking and influence them using elite level listening.

How much information, how much business, are you and your team missing out on because of a lack of listening?

Have you ever wondered what skills hostage negotiators use to bring life or death situations to a safe conclusion… and how those skills, honed in the rarely seen world of hostage negotiation can help you and your team? Then wonder no more….

In this speech, Nigel lifts the lid off life as a hostage negotiator, telling you no only what they do, but how they do it… and how it can help your organisation communicate and negotiate better.