What would you say to a man holding a gun to their partner’s head or someone threatening to set themselves on fire?

For 10 years that was the type of decision Nigel Taberner had to make as a hostage negotiator. During that time, he successfully resolved more than 130 high-risk armed sieges, suicide threats and international negotiations. 

Nigel now brings transferable skills, honed in the secretive and rarely seen world of hostage negotiation, to help those in business, explaining not only what hostage negotiators do, but what they are thinking and how they do it.

You can guarantee there will be no phones out, laptops open on the table or early departures when you book him for your event