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Martin Brooks
Behavioural Science
Communication
Leadership Development
Strengthen business communication with Martin Brooks, speaker and body language expert. Martin works with professionals to enhance leadership presence, boost sales effectiveness, and improve team engagement, delivering research-backed techniques taught at Henley Business School.
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Martin Brooks is a leading expert on body language in business communication, helping professionals leverage nonverbal cues to enhance their influence and impact. As a communications coach and keynote speaker, he authored the critically acclaimed "Body Language Decoder" and teaches the highly-rated "Body Language for Leaders" course at Henley Business School.
With a background in sales leadership and over 20 years of experience in communications training, Martin translates research-backed insights into practical tools for business professionals. His expertise helps organisations address critical challenges in leadership presence, sales effectiveness, and team engagement, drawing on research from Harvard Business Review showing effective body language can boost audience interest by up to 12%.
Alongside his consultancy work, Martin is a regular media analyst for BBC Radio, LBC, and BBC2, where he decodes the communication strategies of leading political and business figures. Audiences leave Martin's presentations with immediately applicable skills: the ability to project confidence through strategic body positioning, techniques to read and respond to others' nonverbal signals, and methods to align verbal and nonverbal communication for maximum persuasiveness. His background in sales leadership ensures content is grounded in commercial reality.
Book Martin when your organisation needs communication skills that create a measurable competitive advantage in today's visually-attuned business environment.
Topics, sessions and talks
Martin Brooks, a Communications Performance Coach and author of Body Language Decoder, emphasises the critical role of body language in leadership. He explains that first impressions and biases are often formed before words are spoken. Effective leaders must combine their verbal communication with confident body language to inspire trust and credibility. In this session, attendees will learn to enhance their credibility, build relationships through active listening, and ensure their key messages resonate effectively.
In this insightful, entertaining, and practical keynote, Martin Brooks shares his secrets to spotting the signals of deception. Based on his book, Body Language Decoder, Martin showcases clever techniques to help participants decode others and even trap suspected liars, causing them to reveal their own lies. Martin's expert insights make it easier to detect deception, enabling your teams to make better decisions with more accurate data.
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Martin Brooks structures sessions around practical decoding frameworks drawn from his book Body Language Decoder, walking audiences through techniques to read nonverbal signals and identify deception, with each method grounded in research-backed tools they can apply immediately.
Martin Brooks specialises in body language for leadership, deception detection, and nonverbal communication in business contexts. He authored Body Language Decoder and teaches the Body Language for Leaders course at Henley Business School.
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