PEAK PERFORMANCE: Your Human Advantage in the AI Age — Maximize Your Trust and Credibility, Build Connections and Perform at Your Peak. We humans have seen thousands of years of revolutionary technologies, along with two ice ages; and yet, the human body and our feelings have remained unchanged. So, do we really think that AI will freeze us out?  Artificial Intelligence will streamline many tasks, but it will never replace our fundamental need for human connection or the benefit of having interpersonal skills. The future of work and top performance belongs to those who take advantage of the time and space this new technology will provide us to maximize our human connections - and they’ll give people more time to work out who they can really trust.

In this energetic and riveting keynote speech by world-renowned body language and communication expert Mark Bowden, audiences are empowered with human know-how to thrive in the future of work, to build trust and credibility around themselves, alongside AI and not in its shadow.

Bowden, in his inimitable energetic and motivational style shares his newest thinking alongside his fundamental skills to help you understand that while work adapts to the progress and change brought about by generative AI such as ChatGPT, working on our interpersonal communication skills is now even more essential. You will learn to:

• Embrace and expand your understanding of how to use your nonverbal behavior to build, maintain and strengthen valuable relationships with clients and colleagues
• Listen effectively and inspire action and confidence in yourself and others to face the future hand in hand with new technologies
• Learn how best to show up, look and feel confident, build and sustain relationships
• Always win trust and gain credibility, be influential and persuasive every time you speak

FUTURE OF WORK: The Hybrid Work World: Be Future Work Ready to Communicate, Connect and Collaborate. Famously energetic, motivational and vitally useful, world-renowned body language and communications expert Mark Bowden shares his top live and digital communication techniques and the science behind them to stand out, win trust and gain credibility, and get you and your organization performing in the hybrid work landscape.

Top takeaways include:

• Ensure no person or great idea gets missed out by enabling the most effective collaboration in hybrid settings at every opportunity.
• Learn how to show up in hybrid meetings in every setting looking confident, and armed with the right communication skills to build relationships, win trust and engage others, and maximize equity, positivity, collaboration and crucially sustainable performance.
• Know the factors that cause people to feel disempowered in hybrid settings and how to countermeasure those to keep them motivated to perform at their best.
• Learn new strategies to help sustain your teams, and keep them focused and optimistic while managing the complexities.
• Learn better self-control, better navigation of the myriad of situations of the ever-changing future workplace, and ensure your optimal performance, productivity, and well-being.

This keynote will enable you to master effective techniques for influence and persuasion in every setting ... all delivered in Mark’s inimitable entertaining style. Make sure no great idea gets left behind.

LEADERSHIP: Winning Body Language for Leadership. As leaders, keeping in step with the changing rhythms of the workplace recently has certainly tested our flexibility, endurance, and challenged us to stretch our capabilities beyond expectation. How can we confidently keep in step to ensure we continue to stand out, win trust, gain credibility and motivate everyone to join us on the pathway towards growth and peak performance?

In this keynote, Mark Bowden inspires and educates leaders and future leaders with his top nonverbal techniques to ensure you always stand out from the crowd, show your trustworthiness and inspire others. Top trainer to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and prime ministers of G7 powers, Mark will enlighten your organization with these top takeaways:

• Learn how some common non-verbal behaviors may be steering you away from strengthening the relationships you need most to reach full potential for you and your organization 
• Win trust, build credibility, listen like a leader, be influential and persuasive to inspire action 
• Experience and learn an accessible vocabulary to share within your organization that will encourage inclusivity, collaboration, and buy in 
• Communicate in a style that is transparent, courageous, compelling and conversational.

SALES: Sell with Trust and Credibility. The most effective salespeople never appear to make any effort at all to win you over. They are natural, likable, clear, and consultative. They learn about your needs by asking intelligent questions and offer solutions that feel right.

In this compelling and interactive keynote designed specifically for sales professionals, communications expert and author of Winning Body Language for Sales Professionals, Mark Bowden will help your salespeople with his most accessible techniques of body language, to understand how they can build strong and lasting relationships, win and hold onto trust, gain credibility, be more consultative and become a trusted advisor to their clients. Bowden brings his world class non-verbal skills and techniques that add impact, power, and presence to sales communication, and teaches audiences how to best implement them at every meeting and presentation.

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