Nicholas Boothman
Nicholas Boothman has been called “one of the leading experts in face-to-face communication in the world” by The New York Times.
He has taught his revolutionary technique of “Risk and Rapport by Design” to thousands of corporations, colleges and universities around the world including the Queens, Harvard, and London Business schools.
His books, How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less and How to Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less have sold more than two million copies in more than thirty languages.
A former fashion and advertising photographer who dealt with hundreds of new faces a week for clients like AT&T, Revlon and Coca-Cola, he is now recognized as a world-renowned expert in turning first impressions into profitable relationships.
Speaking topics
- How to Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less
The only skill every professional need.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re launching a new product line, interviewing for a job, selling real estate or designing concept cars: when you’re explaining the benefits of a decision, persuading teams to incorporate new processes or showing stakeholders how a project will turn a profit, the ability to connect and convince quickly is the most important skill you can have – in any field.
We can’t choose our neighbours and we can’t make a living selling to our friends. We don’t have the luxury of choosing our colleagues, our managers, our clients or counterparts in other companies. But we can choose how to get cooperation, rather than confrontation or apathy with them, and with all sorts of different people.
How to Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less is all about how you can become more successful in business and life by learning how to connect with your customers, clients, colleagues, bosses, employees, audiences and even total strangers in ninety seconds or less and articulate ideas so they are remembered and get acted on.
- The Socially Smart Leader
In today’s innovation culture, successful leaders aren’t just skilled smart – they’re socially smart too.
Once upon a time superior cognitive skills were enough to get you to the top of the corporate ladder. But, being smart isn’t enough to guarantee a place at the top in the business world anymore. Leaders today have to be socially smart too.
“Your social smarts are just as important as your intelligence when it comes to achieving success.” That’s according to new research published in in the Review of Economics and Statistics. “The highest-earning management positions and leadership roles are filled by people who possess both intelligence and social adeptness”
- How to Survive to a Hundred and Five
Over the last 160 years, the human lifespan has grown by more than 40 years – in a straight line. That means every four years it has grown by one year. That’s six hours a day. In other words, a baby born tomorrow will live 6 hours longer than a baby born today!
Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the world’s leading authority on the subject, say there is no biological or evolutionary reason for this growth to slow down. Actuaries in that country forecast a child born in 2015 will, on average, live to 105.
But, they won’t live that long. Their self-talk, their lifestyle, their postal code and their unwillingness to take risks will whisk them away before their time is up.
What they can do about it, and what we can all do about it is what this talk is about. And, the sooner you start, the better.
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Speaker testimonials
Training the New York Supercops includes daily discussions on the works of Aristotle, George Orwell and Nicholas Boothman.
They don’t call him the ‘kick-start expert’ for nothing. Nick sets the tone for the day and has people connecting like old trusted friends in no time at all.
Nick has an ability to cut through so much of the blather that is dished out these days. His preparation was critical in giving our team HELPFUL tools they could take out into the workplace immediately.
Great Job! Everyone at our convention really enjoyed your talk. It was impressive to witness all the conversations that followed.
I have personally worked with Nick on 3 events and in each he has gotten rave reviews.