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Joe Navarro

Transform workplace communication with Joe Navarro, speaker and nonverbal behavior expert. Joe helps organizations decode human behavior, enhance leadership skills, and manage toxic personalities, delivering FBI-honed insights trusted by Harvard Business School and millions worldwide.

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Joe Navarro, Speaker | Ex-FBI Agent, On Nonverbal Comms
Joe Navarro

Joe Navarro

Miami, United States

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  • Former FBI Special Agent with 25 years of experience
  • International bestselling author of What Every BODY Is Saying
  • Expert in nonverbal communication and human behavior analysis
Joe Navarro is an expert in human behavior and nonverbal communication in business. With 14 published books, including the international bestseller What Every BODY Is Saying, and 25 years of experience in the FBI as a special agent, Joe brings a unique and compelling perspective on the subject. He emphasizes the importance of nonverbal communication, as it can reveal a person's true thoughts, feelings, and intentions. Understanding and utilizing nonverbals effectively can enhance our relationships, leadership skills, and negotiation abilities. Joe's expertise and engaging presentation style have made him a highly sought-after speaker, consistently rated as the top speaker at conferences. He has also delivered talks at the Harvard Business School for 13 years. Joe's TEDx Manchester talk and WIRED videos on nonverbal communication have garnered millions of views. His speech topics cover the power of nonverbal communication, leadership, trustworthiness, and handling toxic personalities in the workplace. Joe's books, such as Louder Than Words and What Every BODY Is Saying, provide valuable insights into decoding human behavior.

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On Leadership: Joe Navarro
Joe Navarro’s extensive background as a leader in the FBI, within the intelligence community, working with foreign governments, consulting with major corporations and ceos, sitting on corporate boards, and while doing research for his books, has given him unique insights into how culture, gender, group dynamics, personalities, chronicity, behavior, and of course verbal and nonverbal communication factor, in what it takes to be an effective leader. This keynote presentation is immediately useful and practical, providing effective strategies that have proven transformative for those with leadership aspirations as well as those seeking to achieve a higher level of excellence through their leadership.
Understanding And Dealing With Toxic Personalities In The Workplace
This presentation takes a look at and closely examines the four most common toxic personality types most disruptive to organizations. Joe examines their common traits, how to best identify them through their behavior, how to better understand them, and what can be done to deal with them if and when they become a problem.
Nonverbal Communications In Negotiations
Based on Joe’s lectures at the Harvard Business School over a decade, he explores how nonverbals factor in negotiations to establish trust, to create cooperation, to evince information, to establish order, and to garner greater acceptance. This is the skill set that is not taught at most business schools, but which can make a big difference in determining if there are issues or concerns, for establishing harmony, respect, greater collaboration, and empathetic understanding. This can be presented both as a keynote and as a two-hour breakout session.
The Power Of Nonverbal Communications
Nonverbal behaviors comprise approximately 60–80% of all interpersonal communication. They can reveal a person’s true thoughts, feelings, concerns, as well as intentions. And because people are not always aware they are communicating nonverbally, body language is often more honest than the spoken word. In this presentation, Joe Navarro, a world-leading expert on the applied use of nonverbal communication, will provide crucial insights into how to master nonverbal intelligence in business to assess and influence others.
Mastering Trustworthiness
Based on his international bestselling book Be Exceptional (harpercollins), Joe takes a powerfully insightful look at how exceptional individuals evoke trustworthiness and how that translates into changing perceptions and more effective leadership. With a focus on experienced professionals, this lively keynote examines for the first time what it really takes to be exceptional in a truly transformational way and how you can differentiate yourself from your peers and competitors.

Why we recommend booking Joe

Joe Navarro brings a wealth of knowledge from his 25 years as an FBI special agent, offering unparalleled insights into nonverbal communication that can transform your team's understanding of interpersonal dynamics, enhance leadership skills, and improve negotiation outcomes. His engaging presentation style, combined with practical advice drawn from his international bestsellers, makes complex concepts accessible and immediately applicable to your business environment. Booking Joe as a speaker will not only captivate your team but also equip them with the tools to build stronger, more trustworthy relationships in the workplace.

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Joe Navarro draws on 25 years of FBI experience and over a decade of lectures at Harvard Business School to structure presentations around behavioural observation frameworks, walking audiences through how to identify, interpret, and respond to nonverbal cues and personality types in workplace contexts.
What topics does Joe Navarro specialise in?
Joe Navarro speaks on leadership effectiveness, toxic personality types in the workplace, and nonverbal communication in negotiations. He spent 25 years as an FBI special agent and is the author of the international bestseller What Every BODY Is Saying, with 14 published books and over a decade of lectures at Harvard Business School.
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