Mark Bowden

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• 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 non-verbal 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, Bowden will enlighten your organization with these top takeaways:

  • Learn how some common non-verbal behaviours 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, and 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.

• Company Culture and How to Build It: Performance Together on Purpose

  When productivity is lagging and people are being uncooperative, unproductive, and giving up, often the response is we’ve got a culture problem, let’s improve it. Building a strong and inclusive culture is the most popular solution to the modern organizational dilemma of how to create resilience and grit in the struggle to remain competitive and productive.

  However, without truly understanding the components of culture and how they can best function together, this can prove to be a difficult if not impossible task. How well do we really understand culture and why humans have it, regardless of whether we’ve inherited or built it on purpose? How can organizations, companies, and brands design and build a culture that connects their teams, setting them up for success as they work together with a common purpose towards a unified goal?

  In this highly interactive and engaging keynote, Mark Bowden takes audiences on a journey to understanding culture — the innate system that helps people work together and unconsciously cooperate. He outlines its components, mechanics, and how and why it can optimize performance and productivity.

  Among the key takeaways from this keynote are understanding the building blocks of culture — values, beliefs, rituals, customs, goals, concerns, and signals — how they function together, and how to best collaborate, design, and build a company culture that supports and optimizes growth, performance, and productivity. Bowden will also look at how cultures can collide and conflict, and how to fix this with understanding, acceptance, and cooperation.

  Key learning outcomes include:

  • Demystifying culture: Understand what culture is and how it impacts teams.
  • How to unlock culture’s power: Uncover culture’s secrets for real collaboration.
  • How to build your dream culture: Learn practical strategies for collaborating with purpose.
  • How to bridge cultural gaps: Navigate differences and build bridges within teams.
  • Master communication: Gain insights to connect effectively across cultures.

• 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.

• 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 artificial intelligence will freeze us out? AI 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.

  Audiences will learn to:

  • Embrace and expand your understanding of how to use your non-verbal behaviour 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, and build and sustain relationships.
  • How to win trust, gain credibility, and be influential and persuasive every time you speak.

• 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 in-person 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, delivered in Bowden’s inimitable entertaining style. Make sure no great idea gets left behind.

• Workshop: Compelling Communication for Leadership

  Duration: Half and full day

  Target Audience: Leaders, managers, business professionals, sales professionals

  As a leader, there is no getting around that your job calls for presenting and public speaking under extreme pressure. What your listeners think of your ideas, plans, and your entire organization is affected by how they react to you as a leader when you communicate. Never underestimate the crucial role your presentation skills and style play in your success.

  This fast-paced practical workshop teaches and demonstrates powerful leadership presence through world class communication skills focusing on creating trust, inspiring action, and eliminating what gets in the way of all that to produce a leadership communication style that is transparent, courageous, compelling, persuasive, influential, and conversational.

• Workshop: Speak and Win Business: Confidently Turn Communication into Clients

  Duration: Half and full day

  Target Audience: Leaders, managers, business professionals, sales professionals

   

  Speaking in public, via the media or by directly presenting to prospective clients is a powerful way to build your business. It raises the profile of your company, generates new leads, and when executed with a confident presence and structure the content actually wins new business on the spot. Still, even experienced presenters fear failure and in turn may fail to capitalize upon the business opportunities presented to them.

  Wouldn’t it be useful to know how to instantly stand out, be heard and win the trust of potential new clients across any platform using highly persuasive and influential content structures, verbal and non-verbal language, in any situation? Could you benefit also from knowing the fastest and most effective way to write and give a presentation that makes a profitable impact and brings in new business every time you speak?

  This dynamic practical training workshop will enable you to quickly look, sound, and be at your most confident every time you speak; always stand out and be remembered as credible, highly influential, and utterly trustworthy; and be successful at building business and profit by getting the results and benefits you need, and for which you can confidently ask, at every opportunity your message is delivered.