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Live Workshop | Carlsbad, CA
The Hidden Signals That Drive Trust, Influence, and Better Decisions
Most leaders are trained to listen to words. Exceptional leaders learn to read what is happening beneath them.
$449 early bird | $499 standard
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THE MISSING INTELLIGENCE IN LEADERSHIP
Every leadership conversation happens on two levels.
There is the conversation everyone hears.
And there is the conversation everyone feels.
The executive who says "I'm on board" while silently disengaging.
The customer whose words sound positive while their body communicates hesitation.
The sales prospect who appears interested but has already decided no.
The board member who never voices their concern.
The leadership team that reaches agreement without genuine alignment.
The leaders who consistently outperform their peers don't simply hear what people say.
They read what others miss.
They notice subtle shifts in energy, body language, engagement, resistance, confidence, uncertainty, and group dynamics and they know how to respond before small issues become expensive problems.
In today's AI-powered world, where information has become abundant, the ability to accurately read people has become one of the most valuable competitive advantages a leader can develop.
Learn to hear both, and you gain an edge most leaders never develop.
The Spoken
The words, the agenda, the stated position. This is the conversation most leaders are trained to listen to, and it only tells part of the story.
The Unspoken
The shifts in energy, the comfort and discomfort, the genuine versus performed agreement. This is where trust, resistance, and real intent live.
CO-LED BY TWO EXPERTS
Read the Body. Read the Room. Lead the Conversation. brings together two internationally recognized experts whose work has been helping leaders understand people at a deeper level for decades.
Rick Snyder
Author of Decisive Intuition | CEO of Invisible Edge
Rick Snyder, CEO of Invisible Edge, executive coach, and author of Decisive Intuition, has spent more than two decades coaching executives and leadership teams across organizations including Apple, AAA, Panasonic, 3M, ZipRecruiter, Ogilvy, and dozens of high-growth companies. Since publishing Decisive Intuition, Rick has become a leading voice on how intuitive intelligence can be developed, not as instinct or guesswork, but as a practical leadership capability that helps leaders make wiser decisions, sense what is unfolding beneath the surface, and navigate complex human dynamics with confidence. His work has shown thousands of leaders how to strengthen their ability to "make the invisible visible" by recognizing the subtle signals that logic alone often misses.
David M. Schneer, Ph.D.
Author of Backbone | CEO of Merrill Research
Joining Rick is David M. Schneer, Ph.D., CEO of Merrill Research and author of Backbone. David has spent decades studying how people communicate beyond words through qualitative research, behavioral observation, body language, and advanced interviewing techniques influenced by FBI behavioral analysis and profiling methodologies. Having observed thousands of interviews, executive discussions, customer conversations, and decision-making environments, David teaches leaders how to identify what people are truly communicating through posture, movement, facial expressions, comfort, discomfort, engagement, and incongruence, not by relying on myths or isolated "tells," but by understanding behavioral patterns in context.
Rick teaches you to sense the signal.
David teaches you how to verify the evidence.
One develops your intuitive intelligence.
The other sharpens your behavioral intelligence.
Together, they transform how you read people, lead conversations, and influence outcomes.
Rick Snyder
David M. Schneer, Ph.D.
This highly interactive workshop equips leaders with practical skills they can immediately apply in real-world business situations.
You'll learn how to:
Read individual body language without jumping to conclusions.
Understand the difference between genuine agreement and polite compliance.
Recognize hidden resistance before it becomes conflict.
Detect engagement, hesitation, confidence, uncertainty, and emotional shifts in real time.
Read group dynamics, influence patterns, alliances, and energy within teams.
Develop stronger executive presence and understand what your own body communicates before you speak.
Strengthen your intuitive awareness while validating your observations through behavioral evidence.
Confidently surface the conversations others are thinking but avoiding.
Most importantly, you'll learn how to move conversations forward in ways that create trust, alignment, accountability, and better decisions.
See these skills in action, up close and in real time.
Practice with peers in a hands-on, interactive setting.
Apply what you learn to situations you face every day.
The ability to read people isn't reserved for negotiators or investigators.
It's a core leadership capability.
You'll immediately apply these skills in:
Whether you're presenting a new strategy, navigating conflict inside your executive team, leading a board discussion, coaching a struggling employee, closing a major client, or facilitating organizational change, understanding what is happening beneath the surface allows you to respond with greater clarity, confidence, and influence.
Most leadership programs teach communication.
Very few teach perception.
The highest-performing leaders don't simply become better communicators.
They become better observers.
They learn to read the body.
Read the room.
And then lead the conversation everyone else is afraid to have.
Because when you can accurately see what's really happening beneath the surface, you can build trust faster, make better decisions, create stronger alignment, and lead with a level of influence that others simply cannot.
If your work depends on reading people and guiding conversations, this workshop is for you.
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Whether you are leading a team, managing customer relationships, closing sales, facilitating meetings, or influencing stakeholders, the ability to read the body, read the room, and lead the conversation may be the edge you have been missing.
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