Negotiation is an art that extends far beyond high-stakes business deals and dramatic hostage situations. It’s a critical skill in everyday interactions, whether you’re leading a team project, making a purchase, or navigating personal relationships. BigSpeak offers access to some of the world’s foremost negotiation experts. Here’s a look at some of the top negotiation keynote speakers who can elevate your audience’s negotiation abilities.

Kwame Christian 
A business attorney and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI), Kwame Christian took his place among the world’s top negotiation experts when his TEDx talk went viral, spurring his bestselling books, Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life and How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race: Practical Tools for Necessary Change in the Workplace and Beyond, as well as Negotiate Anything, the  #1 negotiation podcast in the world. Defining negotiation as “any conversation in which somebody in the conversation wants something,” Kwame has worked with the Fortune 500 to apply the fundamentals of negotiation to virtually all aspects of corporate success. He has also helped thousands, from all walks of life, acquire a negotiation mindset that can be applied to universal situations, conflicts, and difficult conversations. As Kwame is frequently quoted, “The best things in life are on the other side of difficult conversations.”

Robert Cialdini 
Dr. Robert Cialdini is a top sales and negotiation keynote speaker, persuasion and influence expert, and the bestselling author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, one of the 12 best business books of all time. Robert has an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. He has helped business clients such as Google, Microsoft, and Coca Cola to improve their sales and marketing.

Janet Palmore
Janet Palmore is the founder and owner of WISE Risk Advisers LLC and a retired Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). She has over 23 years of experience conducting in-depth state and federal investigations pertaining to complex financial crimes, violent crimes, transnational criminal enterprises, money laundering, public corruption, human trafficking, narcotics, and civil rights violations.

Scott Tillema 
Scott Tillema is a top communication and negotiation keynote speaker, FBI trained hostage negotiator, and senior associate with The Negotiations Collective. He is a nationally recognized leader in the field of crisis and hostage negotiations, training thousands of law enforcement negotiators across the country. Scott has developed a model for hostage negotiation, which is now being adapted by those in the private sector for use in sales, communication, and leadership.

Alexandra Carter 
Alexandra Carter is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School, where she has spent over a decade helping thousands of people improve their negotiation skills. She is a world-renowned negotiation trainer for the United Nations, Fortune 500 companies, the AM Law 200, U.S. courts and federal agencies, and more. Carter graduated with honors from Georgetown University, was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, and received her law degree from Columbia Law School. In 2019, Carter was awarded Columbia University’s highest teaching honor.

Sean McNicholas 
Sean McNicholas is a Real Estate Investor, Negotiation Keynote Speaker and Sales Trainer. Sean has spoken to over 500,000 people across the country educating them on the power of investing in real estate, sales/negotiation and the POWER of having SYSTEMS and STEPS everyday rather than motivation. “Once I became financially free I felt a calling to help others do the same. I started teaching real estate investing and since then have been asked to speak on a variety of different topics; systems over motivation, sales and negotiation, leadership and many others… ” Sean is a former collegiate football player and NFL free agent signee who lives in Austin, TX with his wife, Amy, who is also a real estate investor and their daughter Emma.

Meggie Palmer 
Meggie Palmer is a top negotiation keynote speaker, journalist, and entrepreneur. Meggie writes about gender & diversity for Vogue, Marie Claire, and Forbes and has worked internationally as a foreign correspondent, producer, and director in Syria, Zimbabwe, Italy, the Philippines, and beyond. She’s filed for global broadcasters including BBC World News, CNBC, SBS Dateline, Channel 7, Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet. 

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