Rivet Your Audience With A Keynote Negotiation Speech
Informative & Entertaining Presentations By Negotiation Expert Peter D. Johnston
As a renowned negotiation expert, and award-winning author of Negotiating with Giants, Peter has presented keynotes about negotiation around the globe, tailoring insightful, entertaining content to each audience. With executives ranking negotiation in the top five skills for success, a presentation on negotiation skills can inspire a room and make everyone better at what they do. As one of the world's leading negotiation speakers, Peter takes questions throughout, helping ensure everyone can immediately apply lessons to both their work and personal lives.
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Tailored Negotiation Speeches To Meet Your Specific Needs
Timeless Negotiation Insights
Peter shares insights from his advisory work, research, and some of history’s most difficult negotiations, drawing on stories to engage and entertain, relaying vital lessons about negotiation skills. Depending on the audience, stories in his keynotes about negotiation can delve into everything from hostage-takings and civil wars to nasty mergers and historic sports deals.
Wide-Ranging Negotiation Takeaways
Peter's audiences benefit from takeaways relevant to their lives and work, often focused on what we can learn from history’s best negotiators, and how to negotiate outstanding results in any situation, even the most demanding. Topics can include excellence in negotiation skills, negotiating with giants, negotiating with difficult people, sales negotiations, influencing effective change, and the psychology and mindset of the best negotiators.
An Exceptional Communicator
Peter’s exceptional ability to communicate about negotiation, conflict resolution, and current events has attracted dozens of media organizations to interview him, including ABC, CBS, CNN, CTV, FOX, The Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, and Oprah & Friends. His op-eds and interviews have delved into everything from negotiating the sale of a small business or a trade deal, to President Trump 's negotiation skills.
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A Sampling Of Keynotes About Negotiation Delivered By Peter
#1. Negotiating with Giants: Get what you want against the odds, applying core lessons to contracts, relationships, or shifting a nation’s will in your favor.
#2. Negotiating the Sale of Your Business: The seven negotiation mistakes to avoid, from flawed valuations and not protecting assets, to letting a buyer or lawyers dictate the process.
#3. Negotiating Life: The ten negotiations that can make or break you. How to maximize the success of your relationships in every corner of your life.
#4. Negotiating Sales: How can smaller players negotiate the sale of their goods and services to giant organizations most effectively, closing deals as quickly as possible?
#5. Negotiating Procurement: Best practices for avoiding the most common pitfalls in formal negotiation processes aimed at purchasing goods and services most effectively.
Peter Johnston is a leading light in his field.
Professor Roger Fisher, Harvard Law School
Peter D. Johnston: Negotiation Expert, Advisor & Speaker
Peter's Background
Peter is a renowned negotiation expert and bestselling author. His results have been formally recognized by the US Government for their positive economic and social impact, both domestically and abroad. The early foundations for his approaches to influence were formed at Harvard. He is a Harvard MBA, former corporate & investment banker, and currently Managing Director of NAI Limited.
Entrusted By Organizations Worldwide
Peter works with clients of all sizes on important and uniquely challenging negotiations or conflicts. He often guides clients quietly behind the scenes on strategy and tactics, going to the negotiation table as needed. He has advised CEOs on critical transactions, high-profile entrepreneurs on selling their companies, celebrities and professional athletes on their most vital contractual relationships, and both political and military leaders facing national conflicts.
Distinct Value Through Distinct Approaches
Peter's international bestseller, Negotiating with Giants, established him as a pioneer in negotiations involving major power imbalances. He emphasizes defending yourself from the start, negotiating away from the negotiation table, drawing on unexpected helpers, and integrating all negotiations and operating decisions into one strategy to maximize value. Clients measure Peter's value in healthier working relationships, higher productivity, and increased earnings.