As the African proverb says, “If you want to go fast go alone, but if you want to go far go together”. What does Harvard have to tell us about 25,000 working adults in 25 countries? That resilience, agility, and wellbeing can transform a group of random individuals into a dream team. In this highly interactive keynote, Savvas reveals the secrets behind growing powerful teams.

In this keynote, Savvas discusses the MIT and Harvard proven tactics that help professionals generate value through their negotiations. Specifically, the talk focuses on protecting and increasing the value of arguments, building trust to improve outcomes and reducing uncertainty, and recognizing the power of emotion in conversation. Finally, the dark and the invisible sides of negotiation are introduced through an interactive paradigm to present the mechanics of contemporary negotiation.

In today's highly competitive world, everyone communicates but only a few people connect. Connecting with people means making every moment valuable and in the long run, it will change your business.
In this keynote, Savvas shares his insights into communication beyond words. Body language is a huge part of connecting with others and takes up a large part of daily communication.

Stories make people feel, see, they make people use their inner-senses. Studies demonstrate that stories can change our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Findings from the area of neurobiology reinforce the above by showing that being exposed to successful narratives increases oxytocin in our blood (a neurochemical related with kindness that motivates cooperation). So, a story will capture people's hearts by first attracting their brains. Global business titans such as Apple, IKEA, Coca-cola, Youtube, Facebook, invest millions of dollars in the area called brand storytelling because they know that content cannot be pushed into the brain, it must be pulled in. Stories have that pull-in function.

Lao Tzu, Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa. What do all these people have in common? They were servant leaders. In a global post pandemic era, where emotions are frequent and intense, servant and empathetic leadership is now more relevant than ever before. In a nutshell, serve before self is utmost.

Think of a restaurant you visited in the last couple of months that was just good. Do you consider yourself as a loyal supporter of that restaurant? Would you recommend it to a friend that is visiting from another city looking for somewhere nice to go?

What worries you the most while you are on stage presenting? Forgetting your words? Not being interesting enough? Research demonstrates that there are two ways to overcome your limitations as a public speaker: to learn effective techniques, and then practice them on stage over and over again. It is not nuclear physics but it is a fact. The proposed keynote aims to decode and introduce the science behind public speaking to add value to the area of presentations.

The business world today is sailing in different waters compared to thirty years ago. Change is inevitable and we need to think of the transformation process no longer as just a question of keeping up, but rather a leadership issue that requires a deep shift in mindset. Consequently, it’s going to take a new set of leadership skills and structures to captain this ship.

A study published in the prestigious scientific journal of Personality and Social Psychology Review in 2006 revealed only 54-percent chance of accurately detecting lies. This study included nonexpert judges and expert judges such as police officers, detectives, judges, interrogators, criminals, customs officials, mental health professionals, polygraph examiners, job interviewers, federal agents, and auditors. These odds are slightly better than a coin toss!

In our today’s fast-paced technological world everyone communicates but only a few people connect. When people can truly connect, every moment they spend with others, they can make it valuable, and if they are in business, they can make it profitable. This keynote demonstrates how attention shapes our reality and how we can transform technological distractions into competitive advantage.