Mark Bowden Keynote Speaker

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 help 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
• Show up, look and feel confident, and build and sustain relationships
• Always win trust and gain credibility, being 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, 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 looking confident and equipped with the right communication skills to build relationships, win trust, and engage others—maximizing equity, positivity, collaboration, and sustainable performance.
• Know the factors that cause people to feel disempowered in hybrid settings and how to counter them to keep motivation and performance high.
• Adopt strategies to sustain your teams, keeping them focused and optimistic while managing complexities.
• Develop better self-control and navigation skills for the ever-changing workplace to ensure 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.

Company Culture and How to Build It

Performance Together on Purpose

When productivity flags and people become uncooperative or disengaged, the common response is: “We’ve got a culture problem.” Building a strong and inclusive culture has become the most popular solution to the modern organizational dilemma of how to create resilience and grit to remain competitive. But without truly understanding the components of culture and how they function together, improving it can prove difficult—if not impossible.

In this highly interactive and engaging keynote, Mark Bowden takes the audience on a journey to understanding culture: the innate system that helps people work together and unconsciously cooperate. Through stories and practical insights, he explores its components, mechanics, and how organizations can design and build cultures that connect people and set them up for success. Attendees will gain clarity on how values, beliefs, rituals, customs, and signals all function together to create resilience and productivity. You’ll also learn how to resolve cultural collisions with understanding, acceptance, and cooperation.

Key takeaways:

• Demystify Culture: Understand what culture is and how it impacts your team.
• Unlock Culture’s Power: Discover culture’s secrets for real collaboration.
• Build Your Dream Culture: Learn practical strategies for designing a culture with purpose.
• Bridge Cultural Gaps: Navigate differences and build bridges within your team.
• Master Communication: Gain insights to connect effectively across cultures.

Just like a brand, every organization has a culture. Start your journey to building it with purpose, together, today.

Leadership: Winning Body Language for Leadership

As leaders, keeping in step with the changing rhythms of the workplace has tested our flexibility, endurance, and pushed our capabilities beyond expectation. How can we confidently stay in step to ensure we continue to stand out, win trust, gain credibility, and motivate others to join us on the pathway toward growth and peak performance?

In this keynote, Mark Bowden inspires and equips leaders and future leaders with his top nonverbal techniques to ensure you always stand out from the crowd, show your trustworthiness, and inspire action. A top trainer to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and prime ministers of G7 nations, Mark delivers proven strategies to strengthen leadership presence and performance.

Key takeaways:

• Learn how common nonverbal behaviors may undermine the relationships you most need to strengthen for organizational success.
• Win trust, build credibility, listen like a leader, and inspire action with influence and persuasion.
• Experience and adopt an accessible nonverbal vocabulary to encourage inclusivity, collaboration, and buy-in across your organization.
• 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 someone over. They are natural, likable, clear, and consultative. They learn about client 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 shares his most accessible body language techniques to help salespeople build strong, lasting relationships, win and hold trust, gain credibility, be more consultative, and become trusted advisors to their clients. Bowden brings his world-class nonverbal skills and practical methods that add impact, power, and presence to sales communication—and shows audiences how to apply them at every meeting and presentation.