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Martin Brooks

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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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Leading expert on body language in business communication
Guest speaker at Henley Business School
Author of critically acclaimed Body Language Decoder

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.

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Body Language For Leaders

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.

How To Detect Deception

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.

Why we recommend booking Martin

Martin's sales leadership background and Henley teaching give him grounded credibility on the commercial impact of nonverbal communication, particularly valued where leadership teams need to align presence with intent in high-stakes commercial settings.

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Testimonials

Martin is a high-energy and high-impact body-language communications coach. As a speaker at US Asian Pacific American network's annual event, he instigated the audience with pragmatic, easy to implement tips to be impactful & confident communicators. He kept the 650+ audience highly engaged in a 60-minute post-lunch session.

Tapan Buch

Vice President & Assistant Treasurer, Procter & Gamble

Martin brought some very relevant and actionable insights to our workshop. Certainly, stirred some thoughts and left the group with many useful tips.

Anuj Vadehra

EMEA Growth Program Lead, KPMG

Martin is one of the most effective communications specialists I’ve ever worked with.

Alliance Senior Partner UK & Middle East, PwC

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